Suite, op. 3 (1961/90)
Instrumentation: for trombone solo
Duration: 6' 00"
Editions Marc Reift
Case postale 308
CH-3963 Crans-Montana
Galgenlieder (1983)
Instrumentation: for speaking choir, solo speaker, piano, clarinet and percussion
Texts: Christian Morgenstern
Suitable for students at intermediate level.
Duration: 10' 00"
Pan Verlag
Nelson Songs (1986)
Instrumentation: for baritone and electronic tape
Texts: Michael Harlow
Experimental piece using extensive graphic notation.
Duration: 10' 00"
SME/EMS
(Recorded material available on request)
Sonatina for Trombone (1986)
Instrumentation: for trombone and piano
Composed in four movements (like a sonata da chiesa).
Duration: 8' 00"
SME/EMS
incl. part
Flötenspieler und Fledermäuse (1987)
Instrumentation: for transverse flute (c' - g) and electronic tape
A piece with various modern playing methods based on a picture bearing the same name by Kokoschka.
Duration: 6' 00"
SME/EMS
(Recorded material available on request)
Devotion to the Small (1988)
Instrumentation: for Soprano and five percussionists
An experimental work with extensive graphical notation.
Duration: 12' 00"
Wai-te-ata Press
Chinese Songs (1988)
Instrumentation: for high soprano and electronic tape
Texts: Chinesisch, Lao-Tse
Texts from 'Tao Te Ching' and 'I Ching'.
A confrontation between two contrasting philosophies.
Duration: 16' 00"
SME/EMS
(Recorded material available on request)
Concerto for 2 Violins and String Orchestra (1989)
Demanding solo voices with amateur choir.
Duration: 25' 00"
SME/EMS
Father's Telescope (1989)
Musical theatre pieceInstrumentation: for singers, orator and electronic tape
Texts: Michael Harlow
Playful work dealing with power and submission.
Duration: 15' 00"
SME/EMS
Tide Pools (1990)
Instrumentation: for speaker, choir, SATB and piano
5 short pieces with amusing texts about the New Zealand foreshore.
Duration: 8' 00"
SME/EMS
Gargantua (1990)
Instrumentation: for wind orchestra
Based on the grotesque figures of the middle ages. This is an entertaining piece well suited to an amateur orchestra.
Duration: 10' 00"
Editions Marc Reift
Case postale 308
CH-3963 Crans-Montana
Metamorphoses (1990)
Instrumentation: for two trumpets and two trombones
A conversion of diverse non-metrical themes heading together in the direction a metrical theme.
Duration: 6' 00"
Manuscript
Three Chance Pieces (plus one) (1991)
Instrumentation: for piano
The four movements, three short and one long, were composed using the random technique.
Duration: 8' 00"
Wai-te-ata Press
Snakes and Ladders (1991)
Instrumentation: for cello and piano
A playful competition between cellist and pianist.
Duration: 6' 00"
Wai-te-ata Press
Vlaminck's Tie (1985-1992)
Instrumentation: for baritone and piano
Texts: Michael Harlow
A cycle of phrases in mirrored form.
Duration: 18' 00"
SME/EMS
The Green Man (1989-1992)
Musical theatre.Instrumentation: for solo percussionist
Work based on a poem by Michael Harlow, which is about the conflict between anima and animus – instruments are arranged as "male" and "female" left and right of the player.
Duration: 10' 00"
SME/EMS
Suite for Solo Tenor Trombone (1992)
Five short passages alternating between four and twelve tone material.
Duration: 5' 00"
Editions Marc Reift
Case postale 308
CH-3963 Crans-Montana
Amselbaum (1992)
Instrumentation: for soprano and piano
Texts: Brigitte Powell
A cycle in three movements with bird themes.
Duration: 15' 00"
SME/EMS
Whale (1993)
Instrumentation: for trombone (tenor or bass) and electronic tape
An experimental dialogue between man and whale.
Duration: 10' 00"
Manuscript
Mayenzeit (1993)
Instrumentation: for brass band
Minnesang themes and variations for amateur choir.
Duration: 5' 00"
Editions Marc Reift
Case postale 308
CH-3963 Crans-Montana
Dies Irae (1995)
Instrumentation: for Soprano, male choir and instrumental ensemble ( flute, clarinet, (bass clarinet), violin, violincello and percussion)
Texts: Thomas a Celano, Konrad Bänninger
Text by Konrad Bänninger and a sequence from the requiem.
Duration: 27' 00"
Manuscript
After Babel (1995)
Instrumentation: for Soprano, piano, two trumpets two trombones and electronic tape
Cycle taking the restoration of language as its theme.
Duration: 25' 00"
Manuscript
Clara Schumann (1996)
Instrumentation: for Soprano, piano and electronic tape
Cycle of recitatives and variations on the last years of Robert Schumann.
Duration: 25' 00"
Manuscript
Piano Poems (1996)
Nine short pieces with experimental forms.
Duration: 20' 00"
Wai-te-ata Press
Boundaries (1997)
Instrumentation: for two string orchestras and percussion
Stereophonic work for two amateur choirs and percussionists.
Duration: 17' 00"
SME/EMS
(parts: 90.00)
Der Wal (1998)
Instrumentation: for speaking choir and four-handed piano
Texts: Jürg Schubiger
A short piece suitable for youngsters.
Duration: 4' 00"
SME/EMS
Concerto, op. 90 (1998)
Instrumentation: for five percussionists and orchestra (1.1.1.1/1.1.1.0/str)
A work in three movements for a junior choir.
Duration: 21' 00"
SME/EMS
Koauau, op. 91 (1998)
Instrumentation: for transverse flute ensemble (8 players with 16 flutes ranging from piccolo to contrabass flute)
A commissioned work for 'les joueurs de flûte'.
Duration: 10' 00"
SME/EMS
Salmagundi, op. 92 (1998)
Instrumentation: for brass ensemble (4 trumpets, 2 horns, tuba and 4 trombones)
An entertaining piece from German and English folk songs.
Duration: 10' 00"
SME/EMS
Credo, op. 94a (1999)
Instrumentation: for organ and tape recorder
Duration: 6' 00"
Manuscript
Instrumentation: for organ solo
Duration: 4' 00"
SME/EMS
Die Poppa, op. 95 (1999)
Instrumentation: for baritone and tape
Duration: 17' 00"
Manuscript
Home Thoughts from Abroad, op. 97 (2000)
Instrumentation: for orchestra (3.3.3.3/4.3.3.1/timp.2perc/hp/str)
Duration: 10' 00"
Manuscript
Ophelia Songs (1999)
Instrumentation: for soprano (or mezzo-soprano) and piano
Texts: William Shakespeare
Four of Shakespeare's texts dealing with the increasing loss of Ophelia's sanity are set to music.
Duration: 11' 00"
SME/EMS
Sextett (2000)
Instrumentation: for clarinet, bass clarinet and string quartet
Duration: 11' 00"
SME/EMS
(Parts: CHF 42.00)
Scheint denn die Sonne heut nicht? (2001)
Instrumentation: for soprano and piano
9 settings of texts by Robert Walser.
Duration: 20' 00"
SME/EMS
Fanfare Helvetica, op. 100 (2001)
Instrumentation: for fanfare
Duration: 5' 00"
Manuscript
4 Rothko Bilder, op. 102 (2002)
Instrumentation: for 4-handed piano
Duration: 7' 00"
Manuscript
Das Ausland (2003)
Instrumentation: for soprano, bass clarinet, trombone and percussion
1) for soprano and trombone
2) for soprano, bass clarinet and percussion.
Setting of a short story by Jürg Schubiger.
Duration: 7' 00"
SME/EMS
(Parts: CHF 25.00)
Today is the Piano's Birthday (2003)
Instrumentation: for soprano and piano
Setting of a prose poem by Michael Harlow.
Duration: 7' 00"
SME/EMS
6 Fragments for 4 Trombones (2004)
Instrumentation: for 3 tenor trombones and bass trombone
For professional players.
Duration: 10' 00"
SME/EMS
(Parts: CHF 30.00)
Verschiedene Tiere (2004-2005)
Instrumentation: for soprano, trombone and piano
Setting of 4 prose texts by Jürg Schubiger.
Duration: 17' 00"
SME/EMS
incl. parts
5 Schwitters Songs for Andres (2005)
Instrumentation: for soprano, alto and piano
Settings of 5 texts by Kurt Schwitters.
For Andres Giedion's 80th birthday.
Duration: 8' 00"
SME/EMS
Kapiti (2005)
Instrumentation: for Piano
Sound picture of the New Zealand island Kapiti and it's many bird-inhabitants.
Duration: 4' 30"
SME/EMS
A Shout (2005)
Instrumentation: for soprano, female choir & piano
4 texts by Michael Harlow.
Im memoriam William Cumming, NZ painter.
Duration: 10' 00"
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Rothko Variations (2005)
Instrumentation: für Orchester (3.3.3.3/4.3.3.1/timp.2perc/hp.pf.xyl/str)
4 Variations with 3 Interludes, inspired by the pictures of Marc Rothko.
Duration: 17' 00"
SME/EMS
(Parts: CHF 150.00)
Wedding Fanfare (2006)
Instrumentation: for horn and organ
Duration: 3' 30"
SME/EMS
incl. parts
Mother Goose Medley (2006)
Instrumentation: for trombone and piano
A medley of English nursery songs.
Duration: 5' 00"
SME/EMS
(Parts: CHF 18.00)
Francesca e Paolo (2007)
Instrumentation: for a-cappella choir
Setting of the famous story of Francesca da Rimini by Dante.
Duration: 10' 00"
SME/EMS
Alles unter einem Hut (2008)
Instrumentation: for soprano and string orchestra
Setting of texts for children by Jürg Schubiger.
Suitable for an amateur orchestra.
Duration: 20' 00"
SME/EMS
(Parts: CHF 36.00)
Schweizerisches Zentrum für Computermusik (stv/asm Nr. 4, 1999)
Works:
Powell, Kit:
Whale (1993)
Berger, Gary:
im selben raum (1997)
Spoerri, Bruno:
Etude pour usines à fer (1996)
Neukom, Martin:
Studie 8.3 (1994)
Spoerri, Bruno:
De- / In- / Formation (1995)
With more works of: Bruno Spoerri, Brigitte Schär, Harold Vasquez, Michael Horowitz, Simon Jaunin, Nicolas Sordet