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Alfred Knüsel
Messe (1976)

Instrumentation: for vocal quartet, orator, mixed choir, violin and organ

Duration: 18' 00"

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Alfons Karl Zwicker
Nachtduett (1989-1990)
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"

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Andreas Zurbriggen
north of alexandria (2009)

Instrumentation: for vocal quintet SMezAATB or choir a-cappella (SMezTB)

Texts: Rolf Hermann

Description: Dreamy, melancholic piece in c-minor
Level of difficulty: simple-intermediate.

Duration: 2' 30"

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Xavier Dayer
"In hellem stillem Zimmer..." (1996)

Instrumentation: for mezzo-soprano, bass, flute with piccolo, violin, violoncello and accordion, based on poems by Robert Walser

Texts: Robert Walser

The instrumental and vocal parts are, for the most part, written independently of each other.
Aspires to echo the poems and life of Robert Walser.


Duration: 11' 00"

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Kit Powell
Tide Pools (1990)

Instrumentation: for speaker, choir, SATB and piano

5 short pieces with amusing texts about the New Zealand foreshore.

Duration: 8' 00"

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Mathias Steinauer
Speculum sibyllinum, op. 9 (1992)

Instrumentation: for six voices (mezzo-soprano, altus, 2 tenors, baritone, bass), 5 recorder-players (div. instr.), 6 viola da gambas (2 disc, A, 2 T/B, violone in D) and two percussion

An adaptation of newly found manuscripts written by an anonymous twelfth century composer in the Vatican, in which aspects of the whole of musical history are anticipated. Spatial music.

Duration: 16' 00"

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Nicolas Bolens
Il Croco (1997)

Instrumentation: for vocals (B) piano and violoncello

Texts: Giovanni Pascoli

Duration: 5' 00"

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Regina Irman
Requiem "An den Tod" (1991-1993)
Based on a text by Anna Achmatowa

Instrumentation: for twenty-five female voices in six groups from very high to very low register and a minimum of three male voices (bass solo)

Texts: Anna Achmatowa

This piece is based on a phonetic analysis of the voice of Achmatowa as she reads one of her own texts, and it is the musical rather than the semantic elements of Achmatowa's recitation that have been used. A cantus firmus-like line (male voices) defines the melody of her speech in a slow motion tempo. The six choir groups run "homophonically" and are a vertically "harmonious" splitting of the cantus firmus.
Commissioned by Pro Helvetia.


Duration: 60' 00"

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Luca Martin
Missa de homine (2015-2016)

Instrumentation: for choir, soli, and orchestra

Texts: Elisabeth Wandeler-Deck, Sophokles, S. Rotenberg, F. Nietzsche, M. Schmidt-Salomon, W. Shakespeare, Lukrez

"Seit Jahrhunderten hat die abendländische Musik geistliche Messen hervorgebracht - teils basierend auf religiöser Überzeugung, teils die bewährte sakrale Tradition fortschreibend. Einem solchen Werk begegnet die Missa de homine mit einem zeitgenössischen und gegensätzlichen Zugriff: "Nicht Gott, sondern der sterbliche Mensch mit seinen positiven wie negativen Eigenschaften steht im Mittelpunkt."

Der Cantate Basel Kammerchor brachte die Missa de homine im Wechsel mit Joseph Haydns Harmoniemesse zur Uraufführung.
"

Duration: 38' 00"

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Mathias Steinauer
Koren-Fantasien, op. 15 (1997)
27 imaginations - studies on Greek antiquity (approaches to stone)

Instrumentation: for double-reed quartet (double-reed instruments, heckelephone, bassoon), orator/singer (bass/baritone) and one percussion

Texts: Aristoteles, Hippokrates, Ch. Mullack, Xenophon, Aristophanes, Hans Saner, Platon, Leonides von Tarent, Epikur

Text by Aristoteles, Hippokrates, Ch. Mullack, Xenophon, Aristophanes, H. Saner, Platon, Leonides of Tarent and Epikur.

Duration: 45' 00"

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Frédéric Bolli
Und auch ihr habt nun Traurigkeit (1988)

Instrumentation: for bass and orchestra

Duration: 5' 00"

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Hans Eugen Frischknecht
Vokalisationen (1975)

Instrumentation: for five singing voices (SSATB)

Five singers generate a multiplicity of vocal sounds on a purely phonetic basis. The pitch levels are purely graphically notated (with no exact indication to elevation) The work oscillates between dense superimpositions and stationary sound surfaces.

Duration: 8' 00"

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Cécile Marti
Ein Geist geht um (2021)

Instrumentation: for bariton/bass and piano

Texts: Armin Senser

21 Lieder über den Gedicht-Zyklus von Armin Senser


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Laurent Mettraux
"Vers le soleil couchant", oratorio, M. 528 (1995-1996)

Instrumentation: for four soli (SATB), children's choir or girl choir, mixed choir and orchestra (0.0.acl.2bthn.2/0.2.3.0/2perc/vn&vcsoli/str)

Texts: Gilgamesh-Epos, Emily Brontë, Vedas (indisch), Guillaume Apollinaire

Numerous, equally overlapping texts regarding the problem of death: from the epic of Gilgamesh to E. Brontë, from the Vedas to Apollinaire. A very impressive work in its expressivity and its musical and philosophical progression, with a multitude of climates and a very serene ending.

Duration: 42' 00"

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Laurent Mettraux
Elògio della Nòtte, M. 549 (1997)

Instrumentation: for bass and piano

Texts: Michelangelo Buonarrotti

First dark and tortured, then ruminant and calm. Written especially for the bass voice. The accompaniment is particularly impressive because of its sobriety.

Duration: 8' 00"

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Walter Baer
Minne ist so wunderlich (1998)
Songs

Instrumentation: for soli (SATB), mixed choir and four-handed piano

Texts: Johannes Hadlaub

Duration: 20' 00"

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Laurent Mettraux
Al cor di zolfo..., M. 559 (1997)

Instrumentation: for bass and piano

Texts: Michelangelo Buonarrotti

Between passion and reflection. Based on a sonnet by Michelangelo.

Duration: 5' 00"

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Balz Trümpy
A Valediction (2. Fassung) (2003/2004)
Six songs

Instrumentation: for bass and orchestra (2(pic).2.2.(bcl).2(cbn)/2.2.0.0/timp.perc/str)

Texts: John Donne

Orchestral version of the six songs for bass and piano.
In 'A Valediction' I have taken six poems by the Baroque poet John Donne with one prevailing theme: the saying of farewells, the leaving of loved ones. The theme is circumscribed in Donne's picturesque language in a multitude of modes ranging from tender pain to powerful and reckless claims of freedom, and on further to ecstatic delirium in the knowledge that physical separation is revoked by spiritual unification.
In a similar manner to the text, the music circles around a complex nucleus of themes that merge into great lines and trace the various shades of feeling.
'A Valediction' is dedicated to Ute and Susanne Stoecklin.

Duration: 24' 00"

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Balz Trümpy
A Valediction (2003)
Six songs

Instrumentation: for bass and piano

Texts: John Donne

In 'A Valediction' I have taken six poems by the Baroque poet John Donne with one prevailing theme: the saying of farewells, the leaving of loved ones. The theme is circumscribed in Donne's picturesque language in a multitude of modes ranging from tender pain to powerful and reckless claims of freedom, and on further to ecstatic delirium in the knowledge that physical separation is revoked by spiritual unification.
In a similar manner to the text, the music circles around a complex nucleus of themes that merge into great lines and trace the various shades of feeling.
'A Valediction' is dedicated to Ute and Susanne Stoecklin.

Duration: 24' 00"

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Ernst Pfiffner
"... et aperuit oculos.." (1973-1974)

Instrumentation: for bass, baritone, three tenors and instrumental ensemble (0.0.2.2/4.2.3.0/4perc)

Texts: Bibel / Liturgie

In this piece the Latinate poetry of the blind born from the gospel according to John, is set to music. In the first part, the wonderment of the event, in the second the interrogation and in the third the words of Jesus to the healed are set forth. The disciples in the first part and the Pharisees in the second are written for a group of three tenors (traditionally called 'Turba') who, according to the dramatical situation, speak, whisper or scream.
Work series A: Music for concerts.


Duration: 15' 00"

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Hans-Jürg Meier
...und die Musik, immer neu, baut im unbrauchbaren Raum... (2011)

Instrumentation: for vocal quartet (SMezTB)

Texts: Rainer Maria Rilke

Music in four parts with texts from "Die Sonette an Orpheus" (1922):
I Blume und Buch
II Tempel im Gehör
III Gesang ist Dasein
IV Lied überm Land

Duration: 20' 00"

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Rudolf Jaggi
Petrus (Oratorium) (1989)

Instrumentation: for soprano, baritone, bass, choir (SATB), organ, flute, oboe, bassoon and strings

I Jünger
II Apostel
III Märtyrer


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Rudolf Jaggi
Hymnus nach Guido von Arezzo (1992)

Instrumentation: for four tenor and three bass singers

Duration: 10' 00"

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Rudolf Jaggi
Carpe diem (1996)

Instrumentation: for solo quartet (SATB)

Texts: Omar Khayam

Morning...Perpetual changeAway, awayCarpe diem

Duration: 11' 00"

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Balz Trümpy
Missa ad te levavi (2010)

Instrumentation: for a cappella vocal ensemble (SATB)

Duration: 35' 00"

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Bernhard Sieber
Der Richter von Bellenz (2019)

Instrumentation: Gesangsquartett oder gemischter Chor und Klavier

Texts: Johann Jakob Reithard

Duration: 5' 00"

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Rudolf Jaggi
Je sais, Vièrge Marie (2004)

Instrumentation: for choir (SAB), soloists (SATB), panpipes and/or alto flute and small orchestra (perc/str)

Duration: 4' 00"

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Rudolf Jaggi
Two Paraphrases over Bolivian Christmas Carols (2004)

Instrumentation: for choir (SAB), soloists (SATB), panpipes and/or altoflute and orchestra (1.2.0.1/0.0.0.07perc/str)

1. Hoch steht am Himmel uns der Stern
2. Flieg, mein Vogel

Duration: 16' 30"

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Ernst Pfiffner
Osterbuch (1994-1996)

Instrumentation: for soli (MezATBarB), choir and orchestra (2.2(2ca).2.2/4.2.2.0/perc/str)

Texts: Euripides, Karl Jaspers, Blaise Pascal, William Shakespeare, Bibel / Liturgie

Work series A: Music for concerts.

Duration: 45' 00"

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Ernst Pfiffner
Pfingstbuch (1996-1997)

Instrumentation: for six solo voices (SMezATBarB), speaking voice and chamber orchestra (1(pic,fl-g).1(ca).1.1/2.1.2.0/2perc/hp/str)

Texts: Martin Gutl, Huub Oosterhujs, Nelly Sachs, Rabindranath Tagore; Zitate von Helder Camara, Ernesto Cardenal, Johannes XXIII., Jos

Text from the Bible and eastern Liturgy; twelve single verses from Martin Gutl, Huub Oosterhujs, Nelly Sachs, Rabindranath Tagore; quotes from Helder Camara, Ernesto Cardenal, Johannes XXIII., Josef Quadflieg und J.M. Sailer.
Wie?
Pfingsten?
... die Gott verschlafen haben...
Verheissungen
Als Pfingsten gekommen
"Licht wird aus Sand"
Geist - Heiliger Geist
Schenk uns neue Begeisterung
Work series A: Music for concerts.

Duration: 35' 00"

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Jacques Demierre
NO ALARMING INTERSTICE (2015)

Instrumentation: für Trio und Orchester

Duration: 20' 20"

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Hansruedi Willisegger
Cantico delle creature (Sonnengesang des Hl. Franz von Assisi) (1984)

Instrumentation: for vocal ensemble (SATB), choir, children's choir and large orchestra (2.2.1.1/2.3.3.0/hpd/2perc/str)

Duration: 35' 00"

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Max E. Keller
Nebel (2014)
(Alfred Lichtenstein, 2013)

Instrumentation: Bass und Klavier

Texts: (Alfred Lichtenstein, 2013)

Duration: 5' 00"

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Max E. Keller
Silence, ça pousse! (2016)

Instrumentation: Sopran, Alt, Tenor, Bass

"Silence, ça pousse!" ist der Titel einer Ratgebersendung zur Gartenpflege von TV France 5. Zum anderen geht es im übertragenen Sinne darum, inwieweit man allgemein in selbständig wachsende Prozesse eingreifen soll oder sich darauf beschränken möchte, zuzusehen oder zuzuhören. So heisst es bereits in der skandinavischen "Snorra Edda" um 1220: "Er kann auch hören, dass das Gras auf der Erde und die Wolle auf den Schafen wächst, sowie überhaupt alles, was einen Laut von sich gibt."

Duration: 12' 00"

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Max E. Keller
Traum - Schlummerlose Nächte - Sehnsucht (2017)

Instrumentation: Altflöte, Klavier und Bass

Texts: Frida Semler, Martin Greif, Paul Hohenberg

Die drei Kompositionen basieren auf Gedichten, welche Alban Berg (1885-1935) in seinen "Jugendlieder" (1901 - 1908) für Stimme und Klavier vertont hat. Für einen altersklugen Komponisten ist es durchaus reizvoll, für einmal Texte zu vertonen, die er üblicherweise nicht in Betracht gezogen hätte. Denn Alban Bergs Jugendlieder, im Alter von 16-23 Jahren geschrieben, vertonen hochromantische Gedichte auch aus dem Freundeskreis, während er später hochkarätige Autoren bevorzugt hat.


Duration: 8' 00"

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Hansruedi Willisegger
und maria (2003)

Instrumentation: for vocal double quartet (poss. small choir) and mixed choir

Texts: Kurt Marti, Silja Walter, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Novalis

Text: Kurt Marti, Silja Walter, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Novalis.

Duration: 8' 00"

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Andreas Brenner
Ecce lignum crucis (2023)

Instrumentation: choir a cappella

Ecce lignum crucis - (in) quo salus mundi pependit: venite adoremus

Duration: 9' 00"

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