Soundtrack for the filmlet by Volker Schloendorff A Weird Instant, part of the compilation Paukenspieler (5 filmlets by 5 directors after drawings by…

Poems by Mathilde Wesendonk
Orchestrated for contralto and chamber orchestra by Hans Werner Henze

Year of composition 1976
Duration 15 minutes

I Der…

For high voice (soprano or tenor) and eight instrumentalists

I Darest thou now, o soul
II No map here, nor guide  
III I know it not, o soul
IV Till…

For high voice (soprano or tenor) and piano

I Darest thou now, o soul
II No map here, nor guide  
III I know it not, o soul
IV Till when the ties…

Year of composition 1946
Duration23 minutes 

Incidential music for the play of the same title by Edward Bond

Year of composition 1978

after a parable from “The Sheik of Alexandria and his Slaves” by Wilhelm Hauff

(English by Eugene Walter)

Commissioned by the Deutsche Oper Berlin

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Year of composition 1966
Duration 15 minutes

I Adagio
II Allegro marcato
III Air
IV Vivace – Epilogo

Music for Renaissance-Instruments to the film by Volker Schlöndorff based on a novel by Robert Musil

Year of composition 1966