Richard Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder

Five poems for female voice

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

Year of composition 1976
Duration 15 minutes

I Der…

Richard Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder

Whispers from Heavenly Death (Instrumentalists)

Cantata on the poem of the same name by Walt Whitman

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…

Whispers from Heavenly Death (Instrumentalists)

Whispers from Heavenly Death (Piano)

Cantata on the poem of the same name by Walt Whitman

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…

Whispers from Heavenly Death (Piano)

Wolfgang Fortner: Concert for violin and large chamber orchestra (1946)

piano reduction

Year of composition 1946
Duration23 minutes 

Wolfgang Fortner: Concert for violin and large chamber orchestra (1946)

The Woman

scenes of war and freedom

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

Year of composition 1978

The Woman

The Young Milord (Der junge Lord)

Comic opera in two acts by Ingeborg Bachmann

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

(English by Eugene Walter)

Commissioned by the Deutsche Oper Berlin

The Young Milord (Der junge Lord)

The Young Törless (Der junge Törless)

Fantasia for string sextet

Year of composition 1966
Duration 15 minutes

I Adagio
II Allegro marcato
III Air
IV Vivace – Epilogo

The Young Törless (Der junge Törless)

The Young Törless (Der junge Törless)

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

Year of composition 1966 

The Young Törless (Der junge Törless)

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