Instrumentation: for soprano, alto and viola

Texts: Karoline von Günderrode, Christina Thürmer-Rohr

Duration: 20' 00"

CHF: 31.80

Instrumentation: for flute, string trio, harp (or bass), piano and electronic tape (CD/DAT or MD)

Texts: Christina Thürmer-Rohr

Duration: 13' 00"

CHF: 53.40

Instrumentation: for wind quintet (fl.ob.cl.hn.bn), viola and piano

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 21.00

Instrumentation: for pipa and string quartett

CHF: 18.00

Instrumentation: for two violas and double-bass (other string score possible)

A structure derived from a chain of pure intervals with no fixed pitch, but beginning low with a foundation tone, and later running freely. Intonation and listening carefully to each other is paramount in this piece. Graphic notation. Sponsored by SME Lucerne.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 34.00

Instrumentation: for flute and viola

Duration: 2' 30"

CHF: 9.00

Instrumentation: for string quartet with bass clarinet

Duration: 22' 00"

CHF: 24.60

Instrumentation: for viola solo

An early work revised in 2010. It is written in the form of a sonatina and contains some parts of a deformed waltz.
Although there is no contemporary writing it is rather difficult because of constant double stops.

Duration: 4' 00"

CHF: 10.80

Instrumentation: for flute, clarinet, bass clarinet, violin, viola and violoncello

The sextet musicalises five poems through various means e.g. the metre offers a background of incessant rhythmic variation, the rhyming scheme dictates the form even aspects of the content form the base of the instrumentation. Medium level of difficulty. Requires a conductor.

Duration: 11' 00"

CHF: 23.40

Instrumentation: for fl(afl).cl(bcl)bn/2perc/pf/vn.va.vc

Accentuated piano part.

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 32.00

Instrumentation: for soprano, viola and lute

Texts: Alltags- Werbe- Mediensprache

'Adventure' is a journey in which joyful anticipation is transformed in a tumult, before man can again reach safe haven. With its sparse instrumentation, the piece requires a very sensitive approach. Sponsored by SME Lucerne.

Duration: 4' 00"

CHF: 13.00

Instrumentation: for Soprano, viola and bassoon

Texts: Dieter Fringeli

Four songs in the original scoring: Soprano, viola and bassoon. Text by the Basel poet Dieter Fringeli. There are more free passages in addition to the through-composed parts.

Duration: 6' 00"

CHF: 17.30

Instrumentation: for viola, double-bass, harp, piano and percussion (six players in total)

Quite quiet music, easy to perform.

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 17.30

Instrumentation: for flute and viola

Albumleaf based on a bar from the Concord Sonata by Charles Ives.

Duration: ' 28"

CHF: 13.00

Cycle with poems by Georg Trakl

Instrumentation: for mezzo-soprano, bass, flute, harpsichord, four violins, viola, violoncello and double-bass

Texts: Georg Trakl

An erotic, sticky piece that takes the incestuous relationship between Trakls and his sister as its theme. 'Nachtduett' is a series of scenic poems predestined for the stage.

Duration: 20' 00"

CHF: 68.70

Instrumentation: for flute, violin, viola and violoncello

Pastorale - Ballad - Dance

Duration: 6' 30"

CHF: 15.60

Instrumentation: for female voice, clarinet and viola

A piece dealing with failure.

Duration: 2' 00"

CHF: 12.70

Cycle based on poems by Josef Kopf

Instrumentation: for mezzo-soprano and ensemble (fl(pic).cl(bcl)/hp.pf.hpd/2vn.va.vc.db)

Texts: Josef Kopf

Large-scale song cycle in which the metaphors of ice, cold and freezing are centralised. The leading part for the mezzo-soprano is extremely demanding in the emotional and technical areas. (Vocal range e# - b").

Duration: 29' 00"

CHF: 66.70

Instrumentation: for oboe, horn and string trio

Opposing elements growing increasingly apart.
Rights of performance reserved.


Duration: 22' 00"

CHF: 24.00

Instrumentation: for twenty-two string instruments

Duration: 3' 00"

CHF: 18.00

Instrumentation: for choir (SATB), flute, clarinet, three violins viola and violoncello

Texts: Chinesisch

It is better to light a candle than to complain about the darkness.

Duration: 2' 00"

CHF: 16.20

Instrumentation: for string quartet and double-bass

The musical development of the string quartet is in conflict with the hecklings of the double-bass.

Duration: 18' 00"

CHF: 25.30

Instrumentation: for recorder, bass clarinet, viola, violoncello and two percussionists

The melody is expanded in a tower of quints. A row of variations in three parts where the melody sounds as a whole only in the second part.
Conductor is of use.


Duration: 6' 00"

CHF: 13.30

Instrumentation: for soprano saxophone solo and ensemble (fl.cl/tpt/perc/pf/vn.va.vc.db)

"The fascinating colours, the successful combination of the three wind players and their perfect connection with the string players are very well mastered from a formal point of view, they let arise an ensemble piece in the truest sense of the word. (S. Palm)
World premiere: 31.7.97, Klagenfurt, Janus-Ensemble Wien Robert HP Platz (cond.).


Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 34.00

Instrumentation: for violin, viola, violoncello and double-bass

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 18.70

Instrumentation: for violin and viola

Allegro marcato - Tempo di Valse - Thema con variazioni.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 16.20

Instrumentation: for violin, viola, violoncello and percussion

Duration: 17' 00"

CHF: 19.30

Melodrama

Instrumentation: for voice, string quartet, flute and harp

Over a poem by Eduard Mörike.
Difficult interplay.

Duration: 9' 00"

CHF: 22.80

Instrumentation: for flute, oboe, bass clarinet, horn, two percussion, violin, viola, violoncello and double-bass

Horn and percussion accentuated.

Duration: 9' 00"

CHF: 43.80

Instrumentation: for alto, viola, bass clarinet and didgeridoo

Duration: 15' 00"

CHF: 19.30

Instrumentation: for mixed choir, orator, CD playback and ensemble (piano quartet and one percussionist: marimbaphone, vibraphone, large drum, small drum, flexatone, whip, cipher)

Texts: Alltags- Werbe- Mediensprache

Text: Commentary from the French national football team winning the world championships: "Aux larmes citoyens!", "La victoire est en eux!", "Ils iront tous aux paradis!".

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 22.20

Instrumentation: for quartet (vn, va, vib, pf

"Klänge streifen, Rhythmen streifen, Melodien streifen, Streifen schichten, Streifen verweben,
Streifen verdichten. Streifend durch Klanglandschaften ziehen, streifend Klangfarben berühren,streifend Streifen streifen......."
Two string instruments stand face on with two percussion instruments whereby the "percussion's" primary objective is to attempt tonal alignment with the strings. The vibraphone plays a coupling role between the two parties. Polar oscillating movements, stratifying and sometimes recolouring, flowing sound bands and flitting pulsations alternate throughout the piece.


Duration: 9' 00"

CHF: 28.20

Instrumentation: for two violins, viola, violoncello, double-bass, flute (pic), oboe (ca), clarinet (Ebcl, bcl), bassoon (cbn), piano and marimba

Duration: 17' 00"

CHF: 32.70

Instrumentation: for clarinet, string quartet, orator and scenery

Four strophes with extremely differentiated parts, based on the principles of homoeopathy. For Joseph Beuys.

Duration: 10' 00"-15' 00"

CHF: 14.70

Instrumentation: for soprano, oboe, viola, violoncello and cymbalum (or soprano and piano)

A piece dealing with the transparency of life. An adventure into the essence of our elements: The moon - the soul - the sea - the sky - the guardian angel. The perfect man.

Duration: 5' 25"

CHF: 18.00

Instrumentation: for viola, violoncello, trombone, tuba and piano

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 25.30

The sounds of this instrumentation almost always calls associations with "Once upon a time…." The fairy tale begins…

Duration: 13' 00"

CHF: 24.60

Instrumentation: for quintet (fl/vn.va.vc/pf)

Duration: 20' 00"

CHF: 34.00

Cycle based on poems by Elisabeth Heck

Instrumentation: for baritone, flute (pic, afl, bfl), harp, piano, one percussion and viola

Texts: Elisabeth Heck

Very introspective and contemplative song cycle with an increasingly ruminant character. A very subtle and diversified sound world whose centre is the metaphor of stone in all its varieties.

Duration: 30' 00"

CHF: 50.70

Instrumentation: for violin, viola and electronic tape

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 21.00

Instrumentation: for viola, lire, overtone singing and eurythmics

CHF: 13.30

Instrumentation: for flute, viola and harp

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 24.70

Scenic composition

Instrumentation: for four guitars, two mandolins, dulcimer, viola, 2 double-bass, saxophone, trombone, tuba, accordeon and three percussion instruments

Spatial composition based on the sound memories of the musicians/singers.

Duration: 25' 00"

CHF: 36.70

Instrumentation: for viola and organ (possibly piano)

Duration: 4' 00"

CHF: 15.00

Instrumentation: for viola solo

- Notturno I "Aria"
My aria material comes from an Italian lullaby, which is actually quoted in this piece. The title "Aria" is also meant literally (aria = air) as the song alternates between being "breathed" and being played on the strings.
- Notturno II "Siciliano"
A play with the rhythmns of the Baroque dance bearing the same title. Each one is danced from top to bottom.
- Notturno III "Labyrinth Musick"
The violin strides through a tonal labyrinth of 3 intervals and 5 durations. It finally finds its way out - via the octaves.
- Notturno IV "Heaven and Hell"
A high (heaven) and a low (hell) sound landscape slowly merges. The begining and the end of the piece, however, is played on the earth.
- Notturno V "When the Shantyboy comes down"
Zapping through 18 radio stations (all played by the viola) searching for the song which lends its name to the title of this piece. Shortly before the end the composer believes he has found the right station - or is he mistaken?

Duration: 11' 00"

CHF: 21.00

Instrumentation: for string quartet and horn quartet

Four horns stand face on with a string quartet. These two close and self-contained sounding groups are led into a kind of duet. It begins with the construction of two sounds before developing into a back and forth oscillation between the two sounding groups. There follows a mutual attempt at tonal alignment and then fine variations where the groups enter an area of wavering tones. Re-colouring moments of the horizontal figurations or a hocket-like interplay between the two parties arises. The themetization of the instrument-specific base elements, the fifths tuning of the strings and the natural spectrum of the horn become the harmonic culture medium for the whole piece.

Duration: 12' 30"

CHF: 44.40

Three movements as steps in a metamorphosis of a melodic material which stays strongly connected on the level of intervals.

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 21.00

Instrumentation: for flute, viola and harp

In 'Le chant des livrées', two old "chansons du mariage" were combined, rhythmically superimposed and their sounds distilled.

Duration: 6' 20"

CHF: 15.30

Instrumentation: for wind quintet and strings

A polyphonic tonal meshwork - fluctuations between chromatic and polypentatonic - irridescent sound surfaces. For chamber musical performances: wind quintet and string quartet.

Duration: 14' 00"

CHF: 18.00

Instrumentation: for electronic, flute, violin, viola percussion, and dance (ad lib.)

A combination of live music, electronic tape and dance. This piece evokes the inside of archetypal images, images that, throughout time and evolution, have expressed to us the hope of a world of communication that lies beyond our illusory daily lives.

Duration: 17' 00"

CHF: 34.70

Instrumentation: for baritone and instrumental quintet (fl.cl/hp/va.vc)

Texts: Henri Gaberel

Based on the poem by Henri Gaberel.Version for orchestra (2(pic).2(ca).2(bcl)2(cbn)/4.2.3.1/4perc/hp.cel/str) available from the composer.

Duration: 16' 00"

CHF: 34.20

Instrumentation: for viola, violoncello and percussion

Duration: 6' 00"

CHF: 17.30

Instrumentation: for choir (SATB), oboe, viola, xylophone, percussion, organ and double-bass

Texts: Bibel / Liturgie

Musical setting of the 100th Psalm.

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 19.80

Instrumentation: (va solo; pic.1.ca.0.0/1.1.0.0/xyl/str)

Especially written for the dominating solo instrument.

Duration: 16' 00"

CHF: 42.00

Instrumentation: for clarinet and string quartet

Version for clarinet quartet.

Duration: 10' 00"-15' 00"

CHF: 14.70

Instrumentation: for nine instruments (fl.cl/2perc/pf/vn.va.vc.db)

Chinese calligraphy is the essence of Chinese art. For me personally, it stands as an original score. From written characters, sounds emerge. With the words, music is created.

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 24.60

Instrumentation: for nineteen instruments

Texts: Duineser Elegien

with texts from Duineser Elegien: Die erste Elegie by Rainer Maria Rilke and citations from Maurice Ravel's Concerto for Piano in G Major

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 56.70

Instrumentation: for flute, viola and percussion

Duration: 3' 00"

CHF: 12.70

Instrumentation: for solo soprano, vocal ensemble (SATB), oboe, viola, violoncello, and marimbaphone

Texts: Indianische Texte

The Children Songs (which received a prize from the University of California in 1973) are a kind of half scenic cantata based on Indian text.

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 22.80

Instrumentation: for viola

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 12.00

Instrumentation: for violin and viola

Very intimate music. Individual duets can be performed in any combination. Varying degrees of difficulty.

Duration: 18' 00"

CHF: 18.00

Instrumentation: for viola solo

This composition was written for 'The International Viola Book' and is dedicated to Andrew Toovey. In this piece, loosely based on the blues, the viola must alternate (and increasingly during the piece) fulfill all instrumental functions inherent in a jazz combo.

Duration: 4' 50"

CHF: 14.70

Instrumentation: for bass clarinet / Eb clarinet, bassoon, horn, two violins, viola, violoncello and double-bass

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 22.80

Instrumentation: for high voice, clarinet, horn, string quartet and piano

Texts: Anonymus, Heinrich von Morungen, Walter von der Vogelweide

This three-part work is based on text from a minnelied. The vocal line, which uses various sound modulations, is harmonically, melodically and rhythmically interwoven with the accompaniment.

Duration: 17' 00"

CHF: 58.20

Instrumentation: for bass flute, viola, alto saxophone, guitar, percussion and live electronic

Duration: 6' 00"

CHF: 20.00

Instrumentation: for oboe, viola I and II, violoncello and double bass

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 13.80

Instrumentation: for English horn (violin, viola, violoncello) and guitar

A relatively easy to play, slow, transparent and colourful piece.

Duration: 6' 00"

CHF: 12.00

Instrumentation: for viola solo

These five pieces can be played separately or in any order. They must accentuate the qualities of the viola.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 18.00

Instrumentation: for viola and organ

Duration: 3' 30"

CHF: 13.20

Instrumentation: for oboe, viola and guitar

I was spending a year in Sydney when I recieved an offer by Mid-German Radio (MDR) to write a piece after Paul Klee for the 1999 MDR Summer. Being surrounded by such unique flora and fauna reminded me of the strong affinity to life on and in water expressed in the paintings of Paul Klee, his numerous harbour scenes, and above all his fish pictures. What would Paul Klee have painted on a visit to the 5th Continent? "Shark", "Turtle", "Ray" are three such imaginary images, Australian scenes after Paul Klee and inspired by Klee's own related motives. Each of the three movements begins with a core instrument and a specific musical material. The multiple oboe tones in "Shark", the guitar's natural flageolet tones in "Turtle" and the viola's tight chord glissandi in "Ray" initiates the character and development of each respective movement.

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 17.40

Instrumentation: for flute, violin, viola and violoncello

This very difficult piece is based on the flute quartet by W.A. Mozart.

Duration: 14' 00"

CHF: 24.70

Instrumentation: for clarinet and viola

Tonally sensitive, soft concert piece.

Duration: 5' 00"

CHF: 11.40

Instrumentation: for wind quintet and string quartet

Duration: 11' 00"

CHF: 21.60

Instrumentation: for flute, clarinet, harp, string quartet and double-bass

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 18.00

Instrumentation: for alto flute, trombone, violin, viola and violoncello

In the middle of the players sits a tub of water into which small pebbles are thrown. This triggers musical actions from the players.

Duration: 14' 00"

CHF: 19.20

Instrumentation: for viola, piccolo/bass flute, baritone saxophone, guitar and percussion

'Passages' is determined by a hugely formal changing process, beginning with block-like, vertical melodies of the solo viola, leading to a linear, horizontal notation with five equal instrumental parts. Quarter tonal.
First performed: 28..8.00 in St.Moritz by the Ensemble Cattrall under the direction of Marc Kissoczy.


Duration: 12' 30"

CHF: 23.30

Instrumentation: for flute, violin, viola and violoncello

Duration: 11' 00"

CHF: 28.80

Instrumentation: for five strings (2vn.va.vc.db) and tansverse flute

Duration: 20' 00"

CHF: 37.20

Music

Instrumentation: for flute, viola and harp

The spirit of the healing ritual "night song" of the Navajo Indians translated into music.

Duration: 17' 00"

CHF: 25.80

Instrumentation: for string quartet, tenor saxophone, percussion, bass clarinet and double-bass

Duration: 9' 00"

CHF: 52.80

Instrumentation: for clarinet, violin, viola and violoncello

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 21.30

Instrumentation: for viola solo

"Es werde Licht", after a photograph by Silvia Kamm, relates to the situation immediately before (and during) a concert: From tuning the strings, the soloist is catapulted into the musical stream and simultaneously 'explores' the instrument in a quasi '3-dimensional' manner (longitudinal: chords; latitudinal: glissandi; vertical: pizzicato). A theatrical gesture throughout the performance is desirable. Like the photograph of Silvia Kamm, with the lit note stands in an empty, darkened room, the title of the piece symbolises this polarity (pre concert/during concert). With the piece's increasing 'internalisation', an additional content-related level picks up on the aspect of light. The frequency of the individual tones found in the melodic gestures of the final part are taken directly from the wavelengths of visible light (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet).

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 14.70

Ergon 11

Instrumentation: for flute and viola

A miniature with an extremely dense timing and concentrated structural complexity, meant as a metaphor for the fury of the disappearance of short and intensive listening experiences.

Duration: 2' 00"

CHF: 9.00

Strophes from the 'Knaben Wunderhorn'

Instrumentation: for soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, viola and violoncello

Texts: Volkslied

Also in a version for mezzo-soprano and the same instrumentation. Mutations in the same edition. Seven songs: ABC-Schützen - Papiers Natur ist Rauschen - Ein Musikant wollt fröhlich sein - Ich sass auf einem Birnenbaum - Das Vöglein Butschli Butschli Bu (Brentano) - Letzter Zweck aller Krüppelei - Ich hört ein Sichlein rauschen.

Duration: 17' 00"

CHF: 21.30

Instrumentation: for recorder quartet, string quartet, harpsichord and singing voice

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 24.00

Instrumentation: for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, two percussion, piano, string quartet and double-bass

Fantasy, prelude, I. Nächtlicher Kojotentanz, II. Morgensonn' das Meer enthüllet, III. Purple Horses, IV. Yosemite.
Accentuated percussion.

Duration: 11' 00"

CHF: 63.00

Instrumentation: for viola, violoncello, clarinet, piano counter tenor (or alto) CD player and short wave radio (possibly one actor)

Texts: Allen Ginsberg

Alternating score and part notation. The solo voice is simple to intermediate. The interplay is not bound throughout by time.

Duration: 16' 00"

CHF: 29.30

Instrumentation: for male choir and string quintet (2vn.va.vc.db)

Duration: 15' 00"

CHF: 40.70

Instrumentation: for flute, viola and harp

Also required for one of these pieces: a pedal bass drum, some glasses and stones.

Duration: 16' 00"

CHF: 22.70

Instrumentation: for percussion, tenor recorder, viola and violoncello

A music that evolves in extended development, for a performance location with a lot of reverberation. An additional tone installation can sound simultaneously.

Duration: 18' 00"

CHF: 33.30

19 Singings

Instrumentation: for clarinet, bassoon, horn, string quartet and speaker

Texts: Gert Loschütz

Duration: 45' 00"

CHF: 67.80

Instrumentation: for flute and string quartet

This piece is inspired by 'Sizhu' (silk and bamboo). 'Sizhu' is a traditional Chinese musical form used popularly in Central-East and Southern China. The silk bamboo ensemble consists of "soft" instruments with si silk strings (pipa, erhu, zheng) and zhu bamboo instruments (bamboo flutes, dizi). In this work the composer tries to integrate the ideas of traditional Chinese music with modern Western composition techniques. The silk is soft - 'Yin' (feminine): pianissimo and lento. The bamboo is hard - 'Yang' (masculine): fortissimo and allegro. Although the instruments, the musicians, the way of composing and time have all been transformed the spirit of the music and the Chinese emphasis of the musical language remains unchanged.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 28.80

Instrumentation: 1 Fl, 1 EH, 1 Kl, 1 Bkl, 2 Fag, 1 Hrn, 2 Tpt, 2 Pos, 1 Tba, 2 Vln, 1 Vla, 1 Vlc, 1 Ktb

Duration: 1' 00"

CHF: 12.00

Catata

Instrumentation: for baritone and instruments (1(pic).1(ca).1(bcl).1/hn/hp/vn.va.vc(db ad lib.))

Texts: Patrice de la Tour du Pin

Fusion of a series of twelve tones with a constant reference to tonality.
Very expressive French poetry.

Duration: 19' 00"

CHF: 74.00

Duo

Instrumentation: for alto saxophone and viola (scordatura)

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 14.70

Instrumentation: for viola and electronic

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 15.00

Instrumentation: for viola and piano

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 17.40

Instrumentation: for shakuhachi, string trio and percussion

Fine, transparent sound piece using the Japanese Zen flute, the shakuhachi. An attempt to converge.

Duration: 18' 00"

CHF: 39.00

Trio

Instrumentation: for clarinet, viola and piano

Bits of this four-movement chamber music piece were drawn-up on train journeys, hence the title.

Duration: 14' 00"

CHF: 27.60

Instrumentation: for oboe solo, flute (piccolo), clarinet, horn, harp, two violins, viola, violoncello and double-bass

This piece is suitable for oboe and ensemble but oboe and a small orchestra is preferable. The oboe is very demanding but the harp and horn also play important parts.

Duration: 20' 00"

CHF: 41.40

Instrumentation: for pipa (Chinese lute) and string quartet

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 23.00

Ein musikalisches Patchwork oder die Kunst des Fügens

Instrumentation: for nonet (oboe, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, viola, double-bass, accordion, piano and percussion)

A collaboration between members of the 'Komponistensekretariats Zürich' (Werner Bärtschi, Ulrich Gasser, Max Eugen Keller, Martin Sigrist und Peter Wettstein): The score is sent back and forth between the five composers, each fills in a 50-second section before sending it on to the next.

Duration: 50' 00"

CHF: 100.40

Instrumentation: for voice (alto), flute (pic, afl)bassoon, trumpet, vioal, violoncello and piano,

Texts: Johann Peter Hebel, Hans-Jürg Meier

Music to the story 'Unverhoffte Wiederbegegnung' by Johann Peter Hebel. Composed partly rhythmically open.

Duration: 17' 00"

CHF: 36.70

Instrumentation: for clarinet, viola and piano

Alpsegen - Choral and Waltz - Choral and New Year's Song - Choral, Scottish and Choral.

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 24.60

Instrumentation: for tenor recorder, viola, violoncello and percussion

These three studies of intermediate difficulty are composed for a small resonant room.

Duration: 17' 00"

CHF: 21.00

Instrumentation: for clarinet, bassoon, horn, violin, viola, violoncello and double-bass

Including the fourth movement of the septet op. 20 by Ludwig van Beethoven.

Duration: 18' 00"

CHF: 32.40

Instrumentation: for clarinet, bass clarinet and string quartet

Duration: 11' 00"

CHF: 27.60

Instrumentation: for violin, viola and percussion

Duration: 16' 30"

CHF: 24.00

Instrumentation: for flute, clarinet, violin, viola, cello, percussion, piano

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 32.40

Instrumentation: for counter-tenor, recorder, viola, violoncello, double-bass and organ

Texts: Bibel / Liturgie

Text: Psalms 144,4.At the heart, danger, desolation, and fragility are what most characterise this piece. The choice of notes is limited, and only collectively can their meaning be known.

Duration: 5' 00"

CHF: 14.70

Instrumentation: for wind and string quintet (fl.ob.cl.bn/hn/2.1.1.1)

Evening News - Summertime - Today Special - Meteo - Sonntag 03.17 Uhr MEZ - Breaking News.

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 40.80

Instrumentation: for viola, violoncello and double-bass

Composed after the idea of monophonic lines with nuances in colour such as rotary movement and superimposition of rhythmical and melodic sequences.

Duration: 13' 00"

CHF: 17.30

Ergon 23

Instrumentation: for flute, viola and harp (harp trio)

'Quantum streaming' is defined by Gilles Deleuze as the transition of one energy state to another. In this piece I am mainly interested in the different energy forms, primarily potential energy and kinetic energy: What is the nature of the positional condition and the positional orientation, resp. energy density and energy transformation capabilities which charge a potential energy and set a process in motion.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 30.00

Music

Instrumentation: 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"

CHF: 24.60

Instrumentation: for mixed choir, transverse flute, 2 oboes, bassoon, 2 violins, viola, cello, violone

Texts: Antonia Bertschinger



Duration: 25' 00"

CHF: 66.60

Instrumentation: for clarinet and string quartet

Duration: 3' 00"

CHF: 16.80

Instrumentation: for violin (viola) and ten instruments (1(pic).1(obda,ca).2(Ebcl,bthn).1/1.0.1.1/1perc/pf)

In the first and at the end of the fifth movement the solo violin switches to viola.

Duration: 21' 00"

CHF: 48.00

LITANIA

In one movement. A harmonic work in memory of Carl Phillip Emanuel Bach, with a solo viola part (cadenza), which can be performed as an individual piece.

Duration: 13' 00"

CHF: 14.40

Instrumentation: for tuba, string quartet and piano

A series of variations over a bass result in a cathartic waltz.

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 18.70

Instrumentation: for alto solo and string orchestra

Duration: 18' 00"

CHF: 37.80

Instrumentation: for viola solo and six violas

This piece is dedicated to my beloved elder uncle.
My elder uncle had been offering the five children in my family with parental care and financial help since my father died early when I was young. Now he has gone to the heaven but his figure seems even greater and clearer just as sound is while rising high up the earth, revealed by the Buddha.
In this piece, harmonic series sequence based on the note of C serves as a symbol of death and heaven, and subharmonicity series sequence based on the note of E as a symbol of life and the earth. Interpolation is also used to make additions, blending and transition. Added to this, the spectrum music technique and the music-making software Open Music help me discover a fresh way to express my emotions.

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 28.20

Instrumentation: for mixed vocal / instrumental ensemble (SATB, 3rec, acn, vn, va, vc, db)

Five compositions by Old English composers (Taverner, Picforth, Bull) are adapted and partly altered compositionally.

Duration: 25' 00"

CHF: 49.20

Instrumentation: Flöte/Bassflöte, Bassklarinette, Schlagzeug, Klavier, Violine, Viola und Violoncello

Auftragswerk des Schweizerischen Tonkünstlervereins STV/ASM
UA 4. September 2016, LUCERNE FESTIVAL – Moderne 3, KKL Luzern

Ensemble der LUCERNE FESTIVAL ALUMNI
Leitung: Lin Liao

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 37.30

Instrumentation: for two violas

Accentuates the timbre of the viola. Alternates between passionate, ruminant and energetic passages.

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 18.00

Six part work block

Instrumentation: for double-bass solo and chamber ensemble (1(pic).1.1.1(cbn)/1.0.0.0/perc/pf/2vn.va.vc)

Duration: 20' 00"

CHF: 54.00

Instrumentation: for viola solo

Three movements: elegiaco, con passione et meditativo.

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 16.00

Instrumentation: for viola solo

An adaptation of the piece for horn solo.

Duration: 5' 00"

CHF: 12.00

Instrumentation: for eight instruments



Duration: 11' 00"

CHF: 53.40

Vier kleine Tänze mit sich selber

Instrumentation: für singende Bratschistin / bratschende Sängerin



Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 15.60

Music

Instrumentation: for clarinet, viola, piano and percussion

Duration: 16' 00"

CHF: 16.80

The separate tones in this traditional three-movement composition search each other out and feel for worthy connections. Shrill aplenty but not without euphony.

Duration: 17' 00"

CHF: 24.00

Instrumentation: for string quartet

Duration: 12' 40"

CHF: 44.40

Seven duos

Instrumentation: for two violas

Gespräch (1')
Uneins (1'40)
Vexierspiegel (0'50)
Wechselgesang (2')
Schatten (1'20)
Fantasie (5'30)
Kreisel (2')

Duration: 15' 00"

CHF: 22.70

Instrumentation: for speaker, flute, clarinet, violin, viola and violoncello

Texts: Wilhelm Busch

Musical version of the adventures of those two likeable rascals...

Duration: 20' 00"

CHF: 40.20

Neufassung

Instrumentation: für Flöte, Violine, Viola und Violoncello

CHF: 34.70

Instrumentation: for melodica and objects, saxophone (bar, a) trombone, violin, viola, double bass and voice (soprano)

Texts: Hadrian

A trip to and into the Pantheon in Rome in four parts: Tympanon,
Pronaos, Innenraum, Opaion. The performance places the Endless Column in Targo Jiu by Constantin Brancusi into the Pantheon.

Duration: 14' 00"

CHF: 52.00

Instrumentation: for piano quartet

Violin, viola and violoncello in scordatura.
Piano in tempered tuning.

Duration: 19' 00"

CHF: 28.70

Transposition und Umarbeitung der Fantasie für 5-saitigen Kontrabass

Der fünfsaitige Kontrabass - sonst nur als Orchesterinstrument gehandhabt - braucht endlich auch Sololiteratur! Das hat mich, seit ich vor 2 Jahren einen günstig kaufen konnte, zu dieser Fantasie für das faszinierende Instrument inspiriert. Das gleiche Stück kann man, dank der Computernotenschrift mit ein paar Klicks einen halben Ton höher transponiert, auch auf dem Cello spielen. Für Bratsche und Violine musste ich wegen des kleineren Tonumfangs dieser Instrumente einige Anpassungen vornehmen - siehe die entsprechenden Anmeldungen.

Duration: 6' 00"

CHF: 9.00

Instrumentation: für tentet (fl, ob, cl, bn, hn, 2vn, va, vc, cb)

Duration: 20' 00"

CHF: 40.80

Instrumentation: for pianoforte and baroque string quartet

This work in one movement is a homage to Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach. It contains quotates from the Fantaisies and from a Rondo by this composer. The pianoforte part is either in a free style, concert-like or very rhythmic and demands an advanced level of play. The quartet is written in traditional notation. The piano which was used for the world premiere was a copy of an instrument of 1815.

Duration: 16' 00"

CHF: 32.40

Instrumentation: for string quartet and improvisations trio

This work leaves behind the identity of the classical tradition and its strengths (string quartet is widely notated; frequent free improvisation from the jazz tio (saxophone, piano and percussion)) and brings them together only there where real points of contact exist. Integration II and III are conceived in a similar way.

Duration: 14' 00"

CHF: 15.60

Psalm 130 (129) in Armenian

Instrumentation: for soprano solo, English horn and four strings

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 16.20

Instrumentation: for flute and three strings (vn, va, vc)

This work lives for the most part from the contrast between the flute and the three string instruments. The string players sit during the performance and the flutist stand behind them.

Duration: 11' 00"

CHF: 19.20

Instrumentation: for violoncello solo and string quartet

This is an enriched version of 'Message' for violoncello solo. The solo part is exactly the same but divided up into four episodes. The viola also remains in the role it played in the first version. The notation for the strings is relatively easy.

CHF: 18.00

Instrumentation: for oboe, bassoon, horn, trombone, violin, viola, violoncello and double-bass

Duration: 9' 00"

CHF: 19.30

Instrumentation: for flute, viola and violoncello

The fourth string of the viola is lowered to G (one octave lower than the third string). The fourth string of the violoncello is lowered a minor third to A. Accessory: a bow for the flutist. At the end of the work the violist and the flutist both play on the strings of the violoncello. A discreet quotation appears in the middle of this trio: the beginning of the 'Gesänge der Frühe', op. 133 by Robert Schumann.

Duration: 15' 00"

CHF: 18.60

Instrumentation: for horn and string quartet

This work quotes a Haiku recited once by the hornist. It is inspired by the acidic sounds of Gagaku (music of the imperial court of Japan) and by the tense melismas of Nô. The string quartet's tempo is generally independent of the horn's. The five instrumentalist need to have a good command of micro intervals. The particular timbre of the quartet derives from researching the "fake" unisons.

Duration: 18' 00"

CHF: 20.40

Instrumentation: for flute, clarinet, piano, percussion and string trio

Sometimes completely different musical types or structural samples are set aside each other in a similar way to the effect achieved while zapping through television channels, sharp cuts which seem at first random are yet intentional. Even the other meaning of 'cut-sample', the prefabrication of something based on a template or the stereotypical also receives acknowledgement through the mimicry of musical styles. In this manner various fields of popular music are touched upon - even contemporary music cannot escape.

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 19.30

Instrumentation: for violin and viola

Conceived for a world premiere in the Gobi desert, this piece must be extremely desert-proof. Unisono and octavel sound doubling forms the initial starting point. This, on the one hand side, turns a contemporary music taboo into material and brings the sound and the drifting apart of the duo into play on the other.

Duration: 5' 00"

CHF: 12.70

Instrumentation: for viola and violoncello

World premiere: October 2002 in Reutlingen.

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 13.30

Instrumentation: for alto, flute, English horn, viola, violoncello, small percussion

Texts: Karl Mittlinger

Work series A: Music for concerts.

Duration: 16' 00"

CHF: 32.40

Instrumentation: for violin, viola and violoncello

Janus — Oiseau-lune — Petite pomme rouge.

Duration: 17' 00"

CHF: 23.40

Instrumentation: for flute, viola and harp

The title alludes deliberately to the custom of the 16th century, without revealing its associated theme.... The composer took another impulse from the tradition: the use of the modal method, particularly in view of one of the harp's peculiarities.
Work series A: Music for concerts.


Duration: 15' 00"

CHF: 26.40

Instrumentation: for baritone saxophone and string quartet

A comfortable afternoon in a dusty café: as in times past, a string quartet plays a waltz that nobody listens to, a never-ending, continuously repetitive violin melody and an almost imperceptibly shifting accompaniment. Added to this is a completely inappropriate baritone saxophone - sometimes blending in, sometimes detached and sometimes obstinately defiant. Suddenly a bang! And everything collapses into shadowy ruins.

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 18.60

Instrumentation: for flute, clarinet, piano, violin, viola and violoncello

The initial material consists of two melodies and two rhythmical sequences; these can be varied causing their superposition's to result in a countless number of related musical forms. The recurring formal idea is the "undampered clew": a dense, wide mesh that thins out then squeezes itself into the centre of the sound space. In this clear, goal-orientated process, diversity is encroached upon: three instruments temporarily break out of the process, colourful accents engage with the continuous mezzo forte, the process stops momentarily, the residual viola tips over into the realms of noise etc.

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 23.40

Instrumentation: for monophonic choir, alto, orator, flute, English horn, viola, violoncello and small percussion

Texts: Karl Mittlinger und W.A. Mozart

Work series A: Music for concerts.

Duration: 25' 00"

CHF: 41.30

Instrumentation: for soprano, oboe, alto saxophone, horn and viola

A text about statistically the most frequent causes of death in Switzerland takes its course and is interspersed by ten extremely varied newsflashes from real life, all of them objets trouvés from two daily newspaper of 12th June, 2007. The statistical information is set to music in a recitative manner with very few, primarily sustained notes. This is in contrast to the ten newsflashes whose music is composed with lively movements and a tangible pulse in various structures. The somewhat macabre text montage reflects the apparent phenomenon of the sometimes-grotesque contrast of various themes and texts, which seems to magically attract humans.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 22.80

Instrumentation: for flute, oboe, clarinet (bcl), violin, viola, violoncello and improvising piano

This work contrasts notated music with improvised music. The sextet is extensively notated; the piano merely has several verbal suggestions. There are, however, also moments of improvisation in the sextet where, for example, each instrument initially and independently of the others repeats a phrase, which gradually changes following verbal instructions. Each begins this process with great intensity, playing as loud and as quickly as possible – very much in the style of early free jazz.

Duration: 14' 00"

CHF: 20.40

After the picture bearing the same title by Paul Klee

Instrumentation: for oboe, bassoon, guitar and viola

In the painting "Wie Kraut und Rüben" by Paul Klee transparent white dots are spread over a red background in irregular rows and create thereby a subtle pulsation within a regular grid. By painting over the dots with the brush, these dots turn into lines, spots and signs. This technique, which Klee called "pointillate", has been transposed to dots of sound, arranged in rows, superimposed in irregular, free rhythms by the four instruments.

Duration: 6' 30"

CHF: 11.40

A project between improvisation and composition

Instrumentation: for bass clarinet/tenor saxophone, percussion, piano, violin, viola and double bass

The wide scope between improvisation and composition is calibrated. There are, however, no long notated passages but form sequences, short notated phrases as starting points, verbal instructions and graphics - right through to improvisation as one extreme. The musical material is based on the archetypal elements 'accent', 'figure' and 'layer' as mentioned in the title. The through-composed parts "unione e tremolo" for violin and viola (movement II) and the violin solo "NONONONO" (movement VII) are inserted between the six movements as the other extreme.

Duration: 58' 00"

CHF: 18.60

Instrumentation: for viola solo

Work series A: Music for concerts.

Duration: 8' 30"

CHF: 15.00

Instrumentation: for flute, viola and harp

Work series A: Music for concerts.

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 18.00

Instrumentation: for flute, clarinet, violin, viola and violoncello

Peanuts are trivialities, in this case a 3-minute scherzo for the 30th birthday of the Theater am Gleis. The well-known bebop piece "Salt Peanuts" is quoted in this work.

Duration: 3' 00"

CHF: 13.80

Instrumentation: for piano, percussion and string quartet

For advanced amatuers.
This piece was composed for the music Matura. The education of young people is the same for all until the Matura stage. Here, at the first major turning point in their lives, individuals must decide which direction they wish to take. Thus the 'turning point' became one fundamental concept behind this work, walking together and walking alone became another. They are processed on various levels - both on the quasi-motif and the formal.

Duration: 13' 00"

CHF: 21.60

Instrumentation: for string quartet and percussion

This composition is based on a process or a figurative concept: one or several lines are engraved into a surface, derived from the opposing string surface and percussion line. Surfaces and lines exist in the most varied of forms, colours, intensities and mutations thereof, and the contrast traverses various grades and forms. By utilising three cardboard boxes, the percussion section is also able to play flat rubbing noises that create an approximation of everyday sounds. The spectrum expands at various points throughout the work when totally different elements are suddenly introduced.

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 17.40

Instrumental trio

Instrumentation: for two flutes and viola

Duration: 1' 10"

CHF: 9.00

Instrumentation: for flute, bass clarinet, piano, violin, viola and violoncello

The leitmotif of this piece is indeed, as the title suggests (Pfiff = whistle), an instrumental whistle by the whole ensemble, which is followed in each case by a kind of echo - be it hard and loud accents or soft chords.
(Trans.: mit Piff also translates as 'with flair' or 'with zing').
Dedicated to the Ensemble Theater am Gleis Winterthur for it's 20th anniversary.

Duration: 2' 00"

CHF: 9.00

Instrumentation: for soprano and string quartet

Texts: Max E. Keller



Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 18.00

Instrumentation: for oboe, bassoon, guitar and viola



Duration: 6' 00"

CHF: 15.60

Instrumentation: for flute clarinet (bcl), piano, violin, viola, violoncello

This work develops from a simple kernel on the one hand, and displays surprising aspects on the other. And so the kernel grows exuberantly, quasi-uncontrolled, in unpredictable directions, notes remain surprising - like mistakes - enduring to form a surface of contrasts. Suggestions expand into preludes, after beats into codas; the surfaces become noise-like. These surfaces dominate from the middle part onwards, and the kernal fragments and repeats, simultaneously rising up as a pulse. In addition to the little surprises, four structures are spliced in, none of which have anything to do with the kernel: sorpresa.

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 21.00

Instrumentation: Flöte, Klarinette (Bassklarinette), Klavier, Violine, Viola, Violoncello

Unsere Existenz wird von Elementarem bestimmt: Macht, Hunger, Liebe, Kampf, Sexualität, Mitleid, Geld, Bewegung, Überzeugung, Veränderung, Tod ...
Auch in der Musik spielt Elementares eine wichtige Rolle, selbst wenn sie sich in komplexen Verästlungen und Verfeinerungen scheinbar weit davon entfernt. "Vom Elementaren her" geht dagegen in jedem der 6 Teile von einer einfachen Grundstruktur in aller Nacktheit aus, um sich dann in die eine oder andere Richtung zu bewegen.


Duration: 9' 00"

CHF: 18.00

Instrumentation: Flöte, Klarinette in B (Bassklar.), Schlagzeug, Harfe, Violine, Viola, Violoncello

Holzschnitte sprechen einfache Wahrheiten ohne viel Beiwerk unzweideutig, unmissverständlich und bisweilen auch verletzend direkt aus. Nicht zuletzt deshalb sind Holzschnitt in der politischen Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts oft verwendet worden. In der Komposition "Holzschnitte" geht es in diesem Sinne in 7 sehr unterschiedlich langen Teilen um einfache musikalische Archetypen, die durch Überlagerung der 7 Instrumente (also Polyphonie) und Variation durchaus eine gewisse Komplexität entwickeln können. Im 4. Teil werden analog dazu in Stichworten das Scheitern und die enorme Zahl menschlicher Opfer bei der Umsetzung sozialistischen Ideologie in der Realität verbal ausgesprochen. Nur Vietnam bleibt als positives Beispiel übrig.



Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 22.80

Instrumentation: Improvisationskonzept für Bassklarinette, Marimba oder Vibraphon & Schlagzeug ad libitum, Klavier, Violine, Viola und Violoncello

In den 68er-Jahren wurde in der Neuen Musik oft mit einem politischen Hintergrund improvisiert, quasi als antiautoritäre Praxis. Die Konzepte wollten nicht vorschreiben, was zu spielen sei, sondern zur Kreativität anregen. "Ins Freie" knüpft an meine langjährige Beschäftigung mit Improvisation an, ist aber nicht - wie viele Konzepte - für den Eigengebrauch im "inner circle" geschrieben, sondern versucht, allgemein gängige Wege "ins Freie" zu entwerfen.


Duration: 11' 00"

CHF: 10.80

Suite with 4 movements

Instrumentation: for viola and 2 violoncelli

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 24.60