Et (1976)
Instrumentation: for cello
Duration: 7' 00"
Manuscript
for violoncello solo, harpsichord and strings (1982-1983)
A tale (ballad) told in music.
Duration: 25' 00"
Manuscript
Passacaglia (1985)
Instrumentation: for organ
Duration: 11' 00"
Manuscript
Klangstudie, Variationen über den gregorianischen Osterchoral (1985)
Instrumentation: for violoncello solo
Five variations and one coda based on the Gregorian choral 'Victimae pascali laudes'.
Duration: 13' 00"
Müller & Schade AG
Monolog für Klarinette solo (1985)
Duration: 7' 00"
Müller & Schade AG
Notturno (1986)
Music
Instrumentation: for violoncello and harpsichord
...and again it is night.
Duration: 14' 00"
Manuscript
... pasar por la calle... Passacaglia für Streicher (1986)
Instrumentation: for string orchestra
Passacaglia in four movements: "Ich bin, ich weiss nicht wer; ich komme, ich weiss nicht woher; ich gehe, ich weiss nicht wohin; mich wunderts, dass ich so fröhlich bin." From the 'cherubinischen Wandersmann' by Angelus Silesius.
Duration: 16' 00"
SME/EMS
Variations for Violin solo (1987)
Duration: 7' 00"
Gilgenreiner-Verlag
Akasha (1988)
Instrumentation: for clarinet, cello and piano
Duration: 17' 00"
Manuscript
Metamorphose - Impressionen über ein Bild von Thyl Eisenmann (1988)
Instrumentation: for strings and percussion
Duration: 16' 00"
Manuscript
Tania's Dance (1989)
Instrumentation: for flute
Duration: 8' 00"
Manuscript
Capriccio (1989)
Instrumentation: for violin
Duration: 7' 00"
Verlag KaNo
Bachtelstr. 78
8400 Winterthur
Dschen (1989)
Instrumentation: for viola
Duration: 7' 00"
SME/EMS
Kreise (1990)
Instrumentation: for flute, clarinet and harp
Duration: 10' 00"
Manuscript
Spass bei Saite (1990)
Instrumentation: for violin and violoncello
Duration: 3' 00"
Nepomuk Musik Verlag
Im See ist Feuer (1990-1997)
MusicInstrumentation: for violin, violoncello and orchestra
Double concert;
Score for orchestra: strings and two percussionists.
"The fire below and the sea above battle and defeat one another…" from the symbol GO out of the Chinese oracle book I Ging.
Duration: 30' 00"
SME/EMS
Melisma (1992)
Instrumentation: for soprano, cello and harpsichord
Duration: 15' 00"
Manuscript
Wo meine Seele erstarkt (1992)
Instrumentation: for clarinet, cello and piano
Duration: 16' 00"
Manuscript
Cercles (1992)
Instrumentation: for flute, clarinet, harp, string quartet and double-bass
Duration: 12' 00"
SME/EMS
Nachtgesang (1993)
MusicInstrumentation: for flute, viola and harp
The spirit of the healing ritual "night song" of the Navajo Indians translated into music.
Duration: 17' 00"
SME/EMS
(Parts incl)
4 Collagen über Texte von Mani Matter (1993)
Instrumentation: for six violoncelli and one orator (German in Bern dialect)
Texts: Mani Matter
1. "wenn doch nume die..." (4')
2. "oberi und underi" (3')
3. Ballade vom Nationalrat Hugo Sanders (5')
4. us emene lääre Gygechaste (5')
Four of Mani Matters timeless texts, this time a little different.
Can be performed and ordered singularly (sFr. 14.-, 10.-, 12.-, 14.-)
Duration: 17' 00"
SME/EMS
Das Spiel mit dem Wasser (1993)
Instrumentation: for three - four clarinets in B
Duration: 7' 00"
Nepomuk Musik Verlag
==-== (1994)
Music for piano-- -- 'das Nachgebende', airy, soft.
----- 'das Feste', ostinate, earthy.
Duration: 11' 00"
SME/EMS
Vision, music for strings (1994-1995)
Instrumentation: for thirteen solo strings (8.2.2.1) or string orchestra (16.4.4.2)
A journey inside us:"All of a sudden I was surrounded by a fire coloured cloud..." (R. Bucke).
Duration: 22' 00"-24' 00"
SME/EMS
Vision (1995)
Instrumentation: for wind section (2.2.4.2/2.0.0.0), double-bass and percussion
Duration: 25' 00"
Manuscript
Song of the Sky (1996)
Instrumentation: for violin, guitar and double-bass
After searching for ones own identity one finds ones own songs.
Duration: 23' 00"-25' 00"
SME/EMS
Night Chant (1996)
MusicInstrumentation: for violoncello and piano
An attempt to produce in music the secretive and magic text of the Indian ritual 'Night Chant'.
Duration: 25' 00"
SME/EMS
Wasserspiele (1996)
Instrumentation: for three - five performers: min. two strings (vn,va,vc,db) and piano
Duration: 8' 00"-10' 00"
Nepomuk Musik Verlag
Melodie (1996)
Instrumentation: for 2 clarinets
Duration: 2' 00"
Innovative Music
4 Collagen über Schweizer Volksmusik (1996)
Instrumentation: for three violins violoncello and piano
Ländler-Walzerde plageti HansliSchwyzer-SchottischEntlibucher Polka
Duration: 12' 00"
Manuscript
Regen über der Wüste (1997)
Instrumentation: for clarinet, bass clarinet, percussion and speaker
Texts: Eva Eisenmann-Westphal
Duration: 6' 00"
SME/EMS
Amen (1997)
Instrumentation: for speaker, bass clarinet, and two percussionists
Texts: Eva Eisenmann-Westphal
Duration: 6' 00"
Manuscript
Apache Clown Dance (1998)
MusicInstrumentation: for clarinet solo (in Bb)
Clowns are very important in the dance rituals of the Apache Indians. They can be jocular but are also holy. Attempt to be the 'holy clown' while you play the 'Apache Clown Dance'.
Duration: 10' 00"
SME/EMS
Fussspur (1998)
MusicInstrumentation: for flute solo
"We have found a strange footprint on the shores of the unknown. We have devised profound theories, one after another, to account for its origins. At last we have succeeded in reconstructing the creature that made the footprint. And lo! It is our own." (Sir Arthur Eddington, 1882-1944).
Duration: 7' 00"
SME/EMS
Elemente - 4 Tonbilder für Orchester (1999)
Instrumentation: (2.2.2.2/2.2.1.0/3perc/str
Walking in the Paths of the Warrior (fire)Teacher (water)Visionary (air)Healer (earth).
Duration: 35' 00"
SME/EMS
(Material and CD available from composer)
The second attention (2000)
Instrumentation: for violin, violoncello, piano, maracas, bells and gong
Duration: 24' 00"
Manuscript
Klecks und das Katzenfest im Schulhaus (2001)
Musical for children
Instrumentation: for song, clarinet, violoncello, piano and percussion
Texts: Gabriela Büttiker-Meier
Duration: 85' 00"
Manuscript
Bratschissimo (2001)
Instrumentation: for 6 violas
Duration: 10' 00"
Manuscript
Traviata-Fantasie (2001)
Instrumentation: for violoncello and piano
A fantasy about the opera 'La Traviata' by Giuseppe Verdi.
Duration: 15' 00"
SME/EMS
Labyrinth (2002)
MusicInstrumentation: for violin, viola and violoncello
Each instrument has its own individual character and its own tempo. It is like three wanderers with the same destination but each choosing a different route and each walking at a different pace. The wanderers occasionally meet, walk a while together then separate.
Duration: 16' 00"
SME/EMS
(Parts: CHF 25.-)
... zu den Rändern ... (2002-2003)
MusicInstrumentation: for viola, bass clarinet and piano
Based on a picture by the Lucerne painter Thyl Eisenmann. Delicate, subtle colour tones possessing an intensive force.
Duration: 20' 00"
SME/EMS
(Parts: CHF 20.-)
Chant for Viola solo (2003)
'Chant' deals with the search for ones own identity, the search for 'ones very own songs'. The soloist must move step by step on the stage after a pre-determined sequence.
Duration: 13' 00"
Verlag KaNo
Bachtelstr. 78
8400 Winterthur
Rhythm (2003)
Five movementsInstrumentation: for piano solo
There are five fundamental life rhythms: the chaotic, the flowing, the staccato (detached) the lyrical and the rhythm of silence.
Duration: 14' 00"
SME/EMS
evening sun (2003)
MusicInstrumentation: for guitar solo
Fantasy based on an ancient Shamanic song telling how one can impart all ones sorrows, fears and pains to the sinking sun. On its cycle around the earth the sun washes these confessions in cold water and appears again in the morning, clean, fresh and full of energy.
Duration: 7' 00"
Verlag KaNo
Bachtelstr. 78
8400 Winterthur
... zu schwingen... (2003)
Music
Instrumentation: for violoncello solo, 2 baoding balls, 2 concrete tomtoms 2 wooden tomtoms and a singing bowl
Duration: 40' 00"
Manuscript
Chant (2004)
Instrumentation: for violin solo
'Chant' deals with the search for ones own identity, the search for 'ones very own songs'. The soloist must move step by step on the stage after a pre-determined sequence. There is a slightly modified version of 'Chant' for viola solo.
Duration: 12' 00"
Verlag KaNo
Bachtelstr. 78
8400 Winterthur
Song of the Blue Lizard (2004)
Instrumentation: for piano solo
To be played very freely, like an improvisation.
Duration: 6' 00"
SME/EMS
Dreamlines (2004)
TrioInstrumentation: for two clarinets and a basset horn
"The dream of a man is all that he possesses."
Duration: 15' 00"
SME/EMS
all songs are good (2004)
TrioInstrumentation: for flute (afl), clarinet (bcl) and piano
This piece is concerned with the journey into another reality, a reality where one can encounter various magical animals.
Duration: 30' 00"
SME/EMS
(Flute and clarinet parts: CHF 40.-)
âtesh (2004-2006)
Instrumentation: for soprano, baritone, four-part mixed choir and large orchestra (2.2.2.2/4.2.3.0/3perc/str)
After poems by the Persian mystic Jelaluddin Rumi (1207-1273)
"âtesh", Persian for fire - mystical poem - die to live...
"âtesh" was the Swiss contribution to the UNESCO Year 2007, world premiered by the Tonhalleorchester and Harmonie-Chor Zürich.
Duration: 75' 00"
Manuscript
Dialog (2006)
Music
Instrumentation: for violin and piano
Duration: 6' 00"
Manuscript
Mullah Nasrudin (2007)
Instrumentation: for violin solo
Mullah Nasrudin is simultaneously a sage, a fool, a master, a beggar, a magistrate, a teacher and a doctor figure in the Arabian tree. He appears in many stories, each of which can be perceived as superficial and funny but also contain a hidden proposition. It is for the latter reason that the stories of Nasrudin are deeply anchored in the tradition of Sufism (Islamic mysticism) where the Sheikhs use them as teaching stories for their dervishes. The first written reference of such a Nasrudin story can be found as far back as the 13th century. The name Nasr ed-Din means "victory of the faith". Nasreddin is always in the Muslim faith!
A historical Nasrudin most probably lived between the 13th and 14th centuries in Anatolia or Persia where he worked as a spiritual teacher. Konya in Turkey and Iran are his probable last resting places. As with other people from tradition, the present day Nasrudin is not an authentic historical perso. He is known in all Islamic regions, including Afghanistan, Iran and Tadzhikistan with many local miracles being ascribed to him.
Duration: 6' 00"
Manuscript
open secret, sohbet (2007)
Violin concertInstrumentation: for violin solo and orchestra (2.2.2.2/4.2.0.0/2perc/str)
Inspired by a poem written by the Persian mystic Rumi. An intoxicatingly symbolic sound world alluding to a hidden second reality, steeped by mystic secrets: open secret.
Gilgenreiner Publishers
Duration: 28' 00"
Gilgenreiner Verlag
Streichquartett "Fremd bin ich eingezogen..." (string quartet "Fremd bin ich eingezogen...") (2007-2008)
Variations over the lied "Gute Nacht" from the "Winterreise" by Franz Schubert.
Duration: 15' 00"
Gilgenreiner Verlag
violas - alive (2008)
Instrumentation: for 6 violins
Version of the Irish folksong "Cockles and Mussels Alive - Alive Oh".
Duration: 12' 00"
Manuscript
Sagemattler-Walzer (2008)
Instrumentation: for string orchestra
Adaptation of 2 waltzes from the dance orchestra "d'Sagemattler" from Unterägeri (um 1840).
Duration: 13' 00"
SME/EMS
9ten Novemb. 1828 Tagebuch Robert Schumann (2009)
MusicInstrumentation: for clarinet, viola, piano and percussion
Duration: 16' 00"
SME/EMS
De Profundis (2009-2010)
Instrumentation: for soprano, mezzo-soprano and string quartet
Duration: 47' 00"
Manuscript
TaG TaG (2009)
Music
Instrumentation: for flute, clarinet, violin, viola and violoncello
Duration: 7' 00"
Manuscript
this longing (2009)
FantasyInstrumentation: for piano solo
Over the romantic lyrics by Jelaluddin Rumi.
Duration: 17' 00"
SME/EMS
Fantasia (2010)
Instrumentation: for piano solo
Duration: 12' 00"
Manuscript
Songs of time (2010)
Instrumentation: for countertenor and ensemble (fl.cl/pf.perc/vn.va.vc.db)
Old texts (Hebrew, Aramaic, Arabic, Sanskrit, Old French, Greek, Latin, English, ancient Egyptian).
Duration: 65' 00"
Manuscript
del-aram (2012)
Instrumentation: for baritone, 2 string orchestras and percussion
Texts: Jelaluddin Rumi
Duration: 20' 00"
Manuscript
new dialects / Gregory Oakes, clarinet (Centaur Records Nr. CRC 3038, 2009)
Works:
Felder, Alfred:
Apache Clown Dance (1998)
With more works of: Eric Mandat, Ken Ueno, Roberto Sierra, Ned McGowan, Chen Yi, John Mayer
Büttiker, Herbert: Trio mit Schamanentrommel, in: Der Landbote (15.12.2000) (2000)
Wolfensberger, Rita: Alfred Felder - Luzerner Komponist und Cellist, in: Luzerner Zeitung (22.1.1991) (1991)