El Cimarrón

Recital for four musicians

Biography of the runaway slave Estéban Montejo
Text from the book by Miguel Barnet, translated and adapted for music by Hans Magnus Enzensberger

El Cimarrón

Elegy for Young Lovers (Elegie für junge Liebende)

Opera in three acts by Wystan Hugh Auden and Chester Kallman

Commissioned by Süddeutscher Rundfunk

(French by Irène Aitoff)

Period of composition 1959-61
Revised Version 1987
Duration 150 minutes

Dedicated to…

Elegy for Young Lovers (Elegie für junge Liebende)

Elogium Musicum

amatissimi amici nunc remoti

for large mixed chorus (SATB) and orchestra
Latin text by Franco Serpa
Commissioned by Gewandhaus zu Leipzig

Period of composition 2007/08
Duration

Elogium Musicum

The Emperor’s Nightingale (L'usignolo dell'imperatore)

Ballet pantomime by Giulio di Majo

freely adapted from the fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen
Commissioned by the Venice Biennale

Year of composition 1959
Duration 17 minutes

Dedic…

The Emperor’s Nightingale (L'usignolo dell'imperatore)

The Emperor’s Nightingale (Des Kaisers Nachtigall)

Shortened version of the ballet pantomime by Henning Brauel (1970) for flute, celesta, piano and percussion

Reduced version of the ballet-pantomime by Henning Brauel

Year of composition 1959
Revised version 1970
Duration 6 minutes

The Emperor’s Nightingale (Des Kaisers Nachtigall)

The Enchanted Forest (La selva incantata)

Aria and Rondo for orchestra

Commissioned by the Städtische Oper Frankfurt am Main

Year of composition 1991
Duration 11 minutes

Dedicated to Hans Peter Doll

The Enchanted Forest (La selva incantata)

The End of a World (Das Ende einer Welt)

Radio opera in two acts with prologue and epilogue

Commissioned by the Nordwestdeutscher Rundfunk Hamburg

Libretto by Wolfgang Hildesheimer

Year of composition 1953
Revised version 1993
Duration 40…

The End of a World (Das Ende einer Welt)

The End of a World (Das Ende einer Welt)

Opera buffa in one act by Wolfgang Hildesheimer

Adaption for theatre of the radio opera of the same name

English by Wesley Balk

Year of composition 1964
Duration 40 minutes

Dedicated to Ernst…

The End of a World (Das Ende einer Welt)

English Ballads and Sonnets (Englische Balladen und Sonette)

for piano and violoncello

Period of composition 1984/85 (rev. 2003)
Duration 25 minutes

I Quiet, restrained
II ¼ = 72
III Agitated, intense, stormy
IV Grave, solemn
V Tango
VI

English Ballads and Sonnets (Englische Balladen und Sonette)

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

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