The English Cat

A story for singers and instrumentalists by Edward Bond

Commissioned by the Süddeutscher Rundfunk and the Württemberg State Theatre Stuttgart

Period of composition 1980-83
Revised version 1990
Duration 130…

The English Cat

Epitaph

for solo Violoncello

on the death ofPaul Dessau

Year of composition 1979
Duration 2 minutes

Epitaph

Erlkönig

Fantasia for orchestra on the poem by Goethe and Schubert’s Opus 1

Year of composition 1996
Duration 6 minutes

From the ballet “Le fils de l’air”

Erlkönig

Essay on Pigs (Versuch über Schweine)

To a poem by Gastón Salvatore

For sprechgesang (baritone) and orchestra

I Introduction — What you’re attempting 
II Long discourse for duck decoy whistle
III Farewell Formulas
IV

Essay on Pigs (Versuch über Schweine)

Étude Philharmonique

For solo violin
Arranged by Gidon Kremer

Year of composition 1979
Duration 4 minutes

Étude Philharmonique

Euridice

Fragments for harpsichord

Year of composition  1981 (1978)
Revised version 1992
Duration 6 minutes

I Con calma e grazia
II Sarabanda
III Gran…

Euridice

The Falun Mine

In December 1949, Heinz Hilpert produced a radio play version of Hugo von Hofmannsthal's Das Bergwerk zu Falun for Bavarian Radio, featuring among…

The Falun Mine

Fandango

on a bass of Padre Soler

Commissioned by the Orchestre de Paris

Year of composition 1985
Revised version 1992
Duration 12 minutes

Fandango

Fantasia for Strings (Fantasia für Streicher)

From the film “Young Törless” by Volker Schlöndorff

Year of composition 1966
Duration 15 minutes

I Adagio
II Funeral march tempo
III Espressivo
IV Allegro
V Air
VI Vivace
VII Epilogue

Fantasia for Strings (Fantasia für Streicher)

A tremendous day (Ein toller Tag)

Incidental music for the play by Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais in the production of Heinz Dietrich Kentner 

for nine instruments

Year of…

A tremendous day (Ein toller Tag)

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