Six Songs from the Arabian (Sechs Gesänge aus dem Arabischen)

(Sechs Gesänge aus dem Arabischen)

for tenor and piano
text by the composer
commissioned by KölnMusik

dedicated to Ian Bostridge and Julius Drake 

Period of composition 1997-98
Durati…

Six Songs from the Arabian (Sechs Gesänge aus dem Arabischen)

Songs and Dances (Lieder und Tänze)

From the operetta “La Cubana”

For mezzo soprano and chamber ensemble
Lyrics by Hans Magnus Enzensberger (English by Bernhard Jacobsen)
Commissioned by the Collegium Novum Zürich

Per…

Songs and Dances (Lieder und Tänze)

Songs for Tenor and Organ (Lieder für Tenor und Orgel)

to texts by Georg Trakl

Year of composition 1944

Songs for Tenor and Organ (Lieder für Tenor und Orgel)

Songs from an Island (Lieder von einer Insel)

Choral Fantasies on poems by Ingeborg Bachmann

For chamber chorus, trombone, two violoncellos, double bass, chamber organ, percus- sion and timpani

Year of composition 1964
Duration 23 minutes…

Songs from an Island (Lieder von einer Insel)

Strike at Mannesmann's (Streik bei Mannesmann)

staged cantata

Text Erika Runge

Collective composition by Dietrich Boeckle, Hans Werner Henze, Niels Frédéric Hoffmann, Thomas Jahn, Luca Lombardi and Wilfried…

Strike at Mannesmann's (Streik bei Mannesmann)

Three Arias from the Opera “Elegy for Young Lovers”

(Drei Arien aus der Oper „Elegie für junge Liebende“)

For baritone and small orchestra

Year of composition 1960
Revised version 1993
Duration 14 minutes

I Among contemporary poets
II Good Titania
III Bah!…

Three Arias from the Opera “Elegy for Young Lovers”

Three Auden Songs

For tenor and piano

Year of composition 1983
Duration 10 minutes

For Peg

I In memoriam L.K.A.(1950–1952) (At peace under this mandarin, sleep)
II

Three Auden Songs

Three Fragments after Hölderlin (Drei Fragmente nach Hölderlin)

From “Kammermusik 1958”

For tenor and guitar

Year of composition 1958
Duration 9 minutes 30 seconds

I In lieblicher Bläue
II Möcht ich ein Komet sein?
III Wenn einer in den…

Three Fragments after Hölderlin (Drei Fragmente nach Hölderlin)

Three Snow Songs (Drei Lieder über den Schnee)

Poems by Hans-Ulrich Treichel

For soprano, baritone and eight instruments
Commissioned by the Alte Oper Frankfurt

Year of composition 1989
Duration 5 minutes

I Schnee, den ich…

Three Snow Songs (Drei Lieder über den Schnee)

Three Sonnets (Drei Sonette)

for mixed chorus (SATB) a cappella

from the opera „Gisela! oder: Die merk- und denkwürdigen Wege des Glücks“
Text by Christian Lehnert 

Period of composition 2009-10
Duration ca. 6 minutes

Three Sonnets (Drei Sonette)

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