Instrumentation: for soprano, alto and viola

Texts: Karoline von Günderrode, Christina Thürmer-Rohr

Text by Karoline von Günderrode and Christina Thürmer-Rohr.

Duration: 20' 00"

CHF: 31.80

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

Duration: 18' 00"

CHF: 51.60

Ergon 3

Instrumentation: for soprano and piano

Texts: René Wohlhauser

A joining of the montage principle with moderate to extreme expressive contrasts, set in relation to an imaginary artificial language disassembled into linguistic particles. In memory of Camilo Torres.

Duration: 11' 00"

CHF: 26.40

Ecclesiastical concert

Instrumentation: for soprano, mezzo-soprano and organ

Duration: 3' 00"

CHF: 12.00

Instrumentation: for soprano (tenor) and piano

Texts: Paul Eluard

2 notebooks each with three melodies.
1st notebook: Dit de l'amour – L'unique – Dit de la force de l'amour.
This notebook has also been transposed one tone deeper.


Duration: 6' 30"

CHF: 27.00

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

Ecclesiastical concert

Instrumentation: for soprano and organ

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 13.80

Instrumentation: for soprano, double-bass (or violoncello) and piano

Texts: Spanisch (Christof Jung)

A seven-part cycle based on anonymous Spanish verse, translated by Christof Jung.

Duration: 21' 00"

CHF: 30.00

Instrumentation: for choir, soprano, alto and chamber ensemble (fl(picc).ob.cl.bcl.bn/timp/perc/vibr.synth)

Texts: Lord Byron

'Darkness' is based on a poem by Lord Byron.

Duration: 11' 00"

CHF: 33.00

Instrumentation: for soprano and piano

Duration: 6' 00"

CHF: 18.70

Instrumentation: for a small ensemble (soprano, tenor, flute, horn, percussion) and electronic tape

Text: Pierre Emmanuel, William Butler Yeats, Paul Eluard, Gerald Griffin, Jacques Prévert, Vincent O'Sullivan, Maurice Maeterlink, Thomas Hardy, Alfred Lord Tennyson.
Drama for a man and a woman, in English and French.

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 35.40

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"

CHF: 12.60

Instrumentation: for soprano solo and mixed choir

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 16.80

Instrumentation: for soprano, two violins and cello

Texts: Paul Celan

Text: Paul Celan.

Duration: 3' 00"

CHF: 14.70

Instrumentation: for soprano and piano

Texts: Luisa Famos, Arthur Caflisch

1. Margrittas (Artur Caflisch)
The soprano sings to a piano part, becoming ever thinner, similar to a flower whose petals are plucked one by one (…she loves me, she loves me not…)
2. Di d`inviern (Luisa Famos)
"Winter landscape" – piano clusters slowly 'thaw'. Shadow scales form, echo chords. Bells sound in the distance.
3. Queder engiadinais (Artur Caflisch)
Bizarre text about a man who is asked by his wife not to smoke in the living room. Half sung, half spoken. The piano part is strictly composed using a numerical series. There is no alignment between the two musicians.

Duration: 6' 30"

CHF: 19.20

Instrumentation: for soprano and trumpet

The core of this piece is created by the convergence of two sounds with very different tonal characters. It is an attempt at bringing together two differing tonal qualities (one soft and elastic, the other sharp and determined), to recoulour them and transform them.
Is it possible to create a moment where a new mutual sounding body is formed, where a combination colour becomes a new primary colour? How can this threshold be approached: via the fusion of harmony, by increasing the disharmony, through the alternation of tone and tempo dispoitions?
The more the voice becomes a sound dispenser, the more instrumental it becomes. As there is no room here for language as a carrier of meaning, the phonetical formation of syllables allows the vocal sound to become purely tonal.

Duration: 7' 30"

CHF: 12.60

Instrumentation: for soprano, violoncello and percussion (vibraphone / percussion - 1 player)

Texts: Rose Ausländer

CHF: 17.40

Unplugged short version. Parergon 12, Nr. 8,3b, Musikwerknummer 1560b

Instrumentation: Fassung für Sopran, Bariton, 2. Baritonstimme ad lib., Mandoline und Klavier

Texts: René Wohlhauser

Song

Duration: 4' 30"

CHF: 19.80

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"

CHF: 22.80

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

Memento

Instrumentation: for soprano, violoncello and organ

Texts: Bibel / Liturgie, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, W.A. Mozart, Richard Scheid

Text: Buch Hiob, J.W. Goethe, W.A. Mozart, Richard Scheid.

Duration: 25' 00"

CHF: 20.40

Instrumentation: for Soprano and electronic

Texts: Bibel

The singing can be meditative, joyful or even agitated, it changes from one to the other in the rhythm of thinking - as in an inner monologue. The electronic part consists of the sounds of spoken voice, cymbals, organ and computer generated parts.

Duration: 9' 00"

CHF: 27.00

Instrumentation: for solo Soprano, chamber choir, string trio and vibraphone

Texts: Japanische Texte

Six short Japanese three-liners. The choral part is on an advanced level but can be performed by good amateurs.

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 28.80

Instrumentation: for soprano and piano

Texts: Paul Celan

Text: Paul Celan.

Duration: 6' 00"

CHF: 16.00

Instrumentation: for Soprano, alphorn and double-bass

Texts: Chinesisch

A wealth of discourse is presented in this piece, a poem interpreted according to the Yi Chang technique used for thousands of years to declaim poetry, quotes from contemporary Zen texts, Buddhist prayers and the Swiss yodel.

Duration: 15' 25"

CHF: 16.20

Instrumentation: for soprano, alto flute, bass clarinet

Texts: Rob Holloway

The title stems from the Greek words "Aphasia" and "Apheresis". The original meaning of Aphasia is "speechlessness", this is often translated into English as "loss of language". The leaving out of a vowel or syllable at the beginning of a word, either for causes pertaining to language history or because of metric or articulation reasons, is referred to as "Apheresis".
The dealing of language in aPhasis reflects these processes with the explosive, blurting out of word clusters, which are deconstructed as the piece progresses. This process is musically embedded by the voice in a sharply contrasting sound image comprising wordless, archaic sounding 'vocalese' passages, which are hummed or interpreted with a half-open mouth. The accompanying instruments - written here in a new version for bass clarinet and violoncello - negotiate the tonal space between these two dynamics.
The libretto comes from the pen of British poet Rob Holloway.

Duration: 6' 30"

CHF: 16.20

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 vocals (soprano) and piano

Texts: Pablo Neruda

Duration: 15' 00"

CHF: 18.60

Instrumentation: for Soprano and wind quintet

Texts: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emily Dickinson

"Colors" and "Countenance": central terms in the sensitive American natural poetry of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Emily Dickinson.
Colors = the colors and moods of light and nature's power.
Countenance = the processes of nature moving the human soul are reflected in human countenance.
The human state is inseparable from the incidents of nature, human destiny is bound in the charming and mysterious course of the seasons.
In the first movement ("In May when south winds pierced our solitudes" [sic!]) the voice is bound in a net of a max. of 4 of the 5 wind instruments. In the second movement ("A light exists in spring"), the voice alternates with the wind quintet in flowing, declamatory gradations. Vocal effects, together with the timbre, tracing and accentuation of the wind quintet - Colors and Countenance.

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 21.60

Instrumentation: for soprano and piano

Texts: Guillaume Apollinaire

Text: Guillaume Apollinaire.

Duration: 3' 30"

CHF: 15.30

Version 1985: scenic

Instrumentation: for Soprano, piano, actor, small amplification equipment and a small wooden table

Texts: Heinrich Heine

Twelve pieces of music (songs and a piano piece) with texts by Heine throughout, representing a biography in five stages. The Soprano needs a strong low register.

Duration: 40' 00"

CHF: 36.70

Instrumentation: for soprano, three flutes and three clarinets

Texts: Jorge Manrique, Paul Eluard, Georg Philipp Harsdörffer, T.S. Eliot

In this composition four texts from different authors, languages and historical origin have been used, but all bear on the same theme: the fragility of existence, the problem of the concept of reality. A work of meditation, floating and fragile, it hints at the irrational in both its vocal and instrumental sounds. The Soprano sings in Spanish, French, German and English.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 26.00

Parergon 12, Nr. 19, 2. Fassung, Musikwerknummer 2141

Instrumentation: Tenor, Sopran, akustische Gitarre, E-Orgel, E-Baß und Schlagzeug

Texts: René Wohlhauser

Song

Duration: 4' 12"

CHF: 23.40

Eighteen prints, still life and grotesques

Instrumentation: for solo soprano, mixed choir, chamber choir, childrens voice and instrumental ensemble (cl(bcl)/amphpd.org/egtr/2perc/vn.va) and a couple of easy to play additional instruments

Texts: Giuseppe Ungaretti, Hans Saner, Rudolf Rechsteiner, E.M. Cioran, R. Heinzelmann, M. Buselmeier, Elias Canetti, Hermann Burger, G

A disruptive, conflicting cycle with a tendency to decline (from blinding light to ferocious darkness). To be played exclusively in a church and utilising the whole room.

Duration: 50' 00"

CHF: 58.80

Instrumentation: for speaker, choir, SATB and piano

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

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 29.40

Instrumentation: for soprano solo

To the poems of Adonis.

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 15.00

Instrumentation: for soprano, alto, mixed choir (SATB) and four-handed piano with small percussion

Texts: Wissenschaftssprache

A lyrical and atmospheric piece about the world of mountain gorillas. The choir parts can be performed by a good amateur choir, the small percussion (cymbals, small tam-tam, wood blocks, glass rattle) are to be played by the pianists.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 32.40

Instrumentation: for high voice (soprano or tenor) and orchestra (3(3pic).2.ca.2.bcl.2.cbn/4.3.3.1/1perc/cel/hp/str)

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: 64.70

Parergon 13, Nr. 1, Musikwerknummer 464

Instrumentation: Fassung für Sopran, Bariton, elektrische Gitarre, Klavier und Djembé

Texts: René Wohlhauser

Song

Duration: 4' 10"

CHF: 18.60

Instrumentation: for orator, soprano, alto, countertenor, flute, guitar and bass clarinet

Texts: Samuel Backett

An audio play after a quote from Samuel Beckett's "Mal vu mal dit" (Badly seen badly said).

Duration: 55' 00"

CHF: 34.00

Lament

Instrumentation: for soprano, clarinet and horn

Texts: Wilhelm Felix Swoboda, Georg von der Vring

Text: Wilhelm Felix Swoboda, Georg von der Vring.

Duration: 20' 00"

CHF: 19.20

Instrumentation: for soprano, piano and large drum

Duration: 30' 00"

CHF: 10.80

auf Gedichte von Martin Merz aus "Zwischenland"

Instrumentation: for soprano and piano

Texts: Martin Merz

CHF: 20.40

Doric choral cantata

Instrumentation: for soprano, choir, flute and organ

Duration: 16' 00"

CHF: 34.00

Instrumentation: for soprano and alto voices

Texts: Carl Sandburg, Gertrud Burkhalter, Friedrich Bischoff, Ernst Penzoldt

The four German a-cappella songs (two to four-part) are in a traditional tonal style and suitable for an amateur choir, it is not without difficulties. The pieces can be performed individually.
1. Carl Sandburg: Der Nebel (two-part)
2. Gertrud Burkhalter: D Chrinne (two-part)
3. Friedrich Bischoff: Schneefall (four-part)
4. Ernst Penzoldt: Abreise (canon for three sopranos)


Duration: 6' 00"

CHF: 18.00

Four miniatures

Instrumentation: for Soprano and piano after text by Ulrich Suter

Texts: Ulrich Suter

Filigree sketches where the almost obligatory piano sparingly adds shades to the central Soprano.

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 16.70

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"

CHF: 81.20

Instrumentation: for choir, soloists (Soprano, Baritone) and orchestra (0.0.2.2/0.2.0.0/str)

Texts: William Shakespeare

Based the sonnet 154 by William Shakespeare.

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 17.40

Ecclesiastical concert

Instrumentation: for soprano and organ

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 15.60

Parergon 12, Nr. 26, 3. Fassung, Musikwerknummer 2145

Instrumentation: Sopran, Bariton, el. Gitarre, E-Piano, E-Baß und Schlagzeug

Texts: René Wohlhauser

Song

Duration: 3' 04"

CHF: 17.40

Instrumentation: for soprano, flute, violoncello, harpsichord, and percussion

Texts: Henriette Hardenberg

Cycle of three songs.

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 24.60

Instrumentation: for soprano, three Renaissance recorders, percussion and electronic tape

Texts: Samuel Beckett

Seven poems from the 'Mirlitonnades' by Samuel Beckett form the textual base of this piece.

Duration: 16' 00"

CHF: 25.30

2 recitatives + arias

Instrumentation: for soprano, mezzo-soprano, flute, clarinet, violin, violoncello and piano

Texts: Paul Scheerbart, Oskar Pastior, Bruno Stöckli

Uses the quarter-tone system.

Duration: 14' 00"

CHF: 34.80

Instrumentation: for soprano, violin, violoncello, trombone, percussion, piano, electronic tape and a piece of mechanical equipment

A half scenic attempt to look at the common ground between musical and theatrical operation and the resulting relationship between movement and sound.

Duration: 20' 00"

CHF: 24.70

Instrumentation: for soprano, violin, trombone, violoncello, clarinet and piano

A piece with aperspective performance practice. The ever-changing aspects on the radix planets (instrumentalists) by the transitory moon (soprano) are made audible.

Duration: 16' 00"

CHF: 40.00

Instrumentation: for soli (ST) choir (large choir SAB, small vocal ensemble) and orchestra (1.1.1.1/1.1.1.1/org/2perc/1.1.1.1.1)

Texts: Niklaus von Flüe

Easy to easy/intermediate for amateur choir and semi professional vocal ensemble.
Liturgical performance duration 50'- 65'.


Duration: 26' 00"

CHF: 55.30

Parergon 12, Nr. 33, Musikwerknummer 496

Instrumentation: Sopran, Bariton, kleiner Chor (2. Sopranstimme, 2. Baritonstimme, Baß), Mandoline, Klavier, E-Bass und Schlagzeug

Texts: René Wohlhauser

Song

Duration: 9' 00"

CHF: 27.00

Instrumentation: for soprano, flute (or pic or bfl), clarinet (or cbcl or Ebcl) and string trio

Texts: Volkslied

Text from the book 'knaben wunderhorn'.

Duration: 18' 00"

CHF: 32.00

Instrumentation: for soprano and piano

Texts: Brigitte Powell

A cycle in three movements with bird themes.

Duration: 15' 00"

CHF: 30.60

Instrumentation: for soprano and guitar

Texts: Denise Mützenberg

A piece based on a cycle of poems in Romansch, taken from the cycle 'Dschember Schamblin' by Denise Mützenberg.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 16.70

'Radio Play'

Instrumentation: for orator, solo soprano, violoncello and ensemble (fl.cl/perc/pf/vn.vc)

Texts: Sarah Kirsch, Sappho, Michel Serres, Stefan Buri, Hans Magnus Enzensberger

Commissioned by and with support of 'Pro Helvetia', (the Swiss culture foundation) for the 50th anniversary of the Zurich Chamber Voice Choir. First performed in Zurich on the 20th November 2001 by the Chamber Voice Choir Zurich, Martina Fausch, Martina Schucan, Ensemble for New Music Zurich (Bernhard Erne). A piece dealing with the proximity of music and speech, the border area between commutation and murmuring, exactly there where the word is weak and the music has already begun.

Duration: 45' 00"

CHF: 56.00

Instrumentation: for soprano, violin, two organs, and percussion with two or three players

Texts: Clara von Assisi, Franziskus von Assisi, Bibel / Liturgie

Homage to Clara von Assisi. The soprano is expected to use her voice in a widely colourful manner.

Duration: 15' 00"

CHF: 35.40

Instrumentation: for soprano, oboe, violoncello and piano

Texts: Alltags- Werbe- Mediensprache

The basis of the text for 'Fernruf J 12' is the the list of the Bolshevist musicians from the Berlin department for art preservation from 1935: it is the list of musicians which had to be displaced from the music scene. The piece works, from a musical point of view, with different levels of understanding i.e. repression and forgetting.
World premier: 22.05.02 in Basel by the aequator ensemble.


Duration: 13' 00"

CHF: 26.00

Three pieces for the church (liturgical use)

Instrumentation: for soprano and violoncello

1. Einzug: Blasius-Segen (2'30)
2. Fürchtet Euch nicht - Folget mir nach (3'30)
3. Gabenbereitung: Nimm, o Herr! (2')

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 14.40

Parergon-Nr. 12, Nr. 30, 2. Fassung, Musikwerknummer 2071

Instrumentation: Tenor, Sopran, Gitarre, el. Orgel, E-Piano, E-Baß und Schlagzeug

Texts: René Wohlhauser

Song

Duration: 4' 19"

CHF: 19.80

Song cycle

Instrumentation: for soprano with piano accompaniment

Texts: Silja Walter, Pablo Neruda, Langstston Hughes, Ingeborg Bachmann

Four songs, two German and two English. All texts were translated by the composer.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 30.60

Ecclesiastical concert

Instrumentation: for soprano, mezzo-soprano and organ

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 13.80

Parergon 12, Nr. 34, Musikwerknummer 510

Instrumentation: Solo-Bariton, Sopran, 2. Bariton, el. Gitarre, Klavier, Streicher, E-Baß und Schlagzeug

Texts: René Wohlhauser

Song

Duration: 4' 23"

CHF: 18.60

Instrumentation: for soprano and instrumental ensemble (1.1.1.1/1.1.0.0/man.gtr/1.1.1.1)

Duration: 22' 00"

CHF: 46.70

Instrumentation: for two sopranos, alto and double-bass

Texts: Anna Achmatova (Mathilde F. Anneke), Dorothee Sölle, Hanna-Renate Laurien, Käthe Kollwitz, Wera Figner, Adelheid Duvanel

Five songs requiring a broad, expressive spectrum.

Duration: 23' 00"

CHF: 29.40

Instrumentation: for soprano and piano

Morgen! (John Henry Mackay) 4'
Um Mitternacht (Friedrich Rückert) 4'
Dein Angesicht (Heinrich Heine) 2'
Von ewiger Liebe (Josef Wenzig) 3'
Widmung (Friedrich Rückert) 3'
and:
Cäcilie (Heinrich Hart) 2'30"

Romantic poems, which have already served as textual templates for the great lieder composers (Schumann, Brahms, Strauss, Mahler), are set anew to music. The musical language of the lieder can be classified as being somewhere between the romantic lied and commercial (pop) song, where the influence of new music is apparent.

Duration: 19' 00"

CHF: 28.80

Instrumentation: für Sopran, Alt, Klavier, Celesta und Schlagzeug

Zu Beginn verschmelzen die 3 angeschlagenen Instrumente (beim Schlagzeug: Vibraphon). Sehr kontrastreich verhalten sich dazu die drei weiteren Teile.

CHF: 16.70

Instrumentation: for soprano and piano

Texts: Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Gottfried Keller

1. Lass scharren deiner Rosse Huf (C.F. Meyer)2. Erster Schnee (G. Keller)

Duration: 5' 00"

CHF: 13.20

Parergon 12, Nr. 31, 2. Fassung, Musikwerknummer 2004

Instrumentation: Tenor, Backvocal-Sopran, akust. Gitarre, Vibraphon (Keyboard), E-Baß und Schlagzeug

Texts: René Wohlhauser

Song

Duration: 6' 40"

CHF: 27.60

Instrumentation: for soprano, oboe, violoncello and piano

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 34.20

Parergon 12, Nr. 36, 2. Fassung, Musikwerknummer 1940

Instrumentation: Bariton, Klavier, Violine und Sopran-Backvocal, E-Baß und Schlagzeug ad lib.

Texts: René Wohlhauser

Song

Duration: 6' 04"

CHF: 20.40

Hymn

Instrumentation: for soprano and organ

Texts: Michael Bauer

Duration: 6' 00"

CHF: 12.60

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 soprano and instrumental ensemble (fl/perc/acn/man/2vn.2va.2vc.db)

Texts: W. C. Williams

A cycle of songs based on texts by W. C. Williams.

Duration: 28' 00"

CHF: 61.80

Instrumentation: for soprano, speaking voice/ piano, clarinet and accordion

Texts: Anna Achmatova

Midnight ghostly spook. The concert version of a scene from the forthcoming opera 'Poem ohne Held'. Composition commisioned by the 'Ensemble Klangheimlich', Bern.

Duration: 18' 00"

CHF: 43.20

Instrumentation: for soprano and piano

Texts: Robert Walser

Based on texts by Robert Walser.

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 18.00

Die Brunnenvision von Bruder Klaus - Ecclesiastical concert

Instrumentation: for soprano and organ

Duration: 18' 00"

CHF: 19.80

Parergon 12, Nr. 35, 2. Fassung, Musikwerknummer 2140

Instrumentation: Sopran, Bariton, el. Gitarre, E-Orgel, E-Baß und Schlagzeug

Texts: René Wohlhauser

Song

Duration: 5' 00"

CHF: 18.00

Instrumentation: for orator, soprano, piano and large drum

Texts: E.T.A. Hoffmann

A 'carnival' for four players in fifteen combinations with R. Schuhmann and E.T.A Hoffmann. For the 60th birthday of Urs Peter Schneider.

Duration: 3' 00"

CHF: 14.40

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 coloratura soprano and organ

Texts: Francesco Petrarca

Each of the four movements illuminates one of several aspects of love from the poet to Laura: The glorification, the steady sorrow in loss, the deceptive vision, and the final idolisation.

Duration: 22' 00"

CHF: 48.60

Instrumentation: for soprano and violin

Texts: Bibel / Liturgie, Volkslied

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 20.40

Parergon-Nr. 13, Nr. 9, 2. Fassung, Musikwerknummer 2073

Instrumentation: Tenor, Sopran, el. Gitarre, el. Orgel, E-Baß und Drums

Texts: René Wohlhauser

Song

Duration: 3' 53"

CHF: 18.60

Instrumentation: for soprano and instrumental ensemble (flute/melodica, clarinet, piano/melodica, accordion, mandolin, violin/viola, violoncello)

Texts: Ernst Herbeck

Twenty-seven songs and four intermezzi based on the schizophrenic lyrics contained in the poems of Ernst Herbeck (Alexander). Relatively simple for the instrumentalists. In some sections, the musicians have to sing and whistle as well.

Duration: 36' 00"

CHF: 40.70

Instrumentation: Gesang (Sopran c' - f''), Klavier

Texts: Gottfried Keller

Duration: 2' 50"

CHF: 9.00

Instrumentation: for soprano and percussion

Duration: 3' 00"

CHF: 14.40

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"

CHF: 12.60

Parergon 13, Nr. 16, 2. Fassung, Musikwerknummer 1844

Instrumentation: Sopran, Tenor, Synthesizer, Klavier, Orgel (Keyboard), E-Baß und Schlagzeug

Texts: René Wohlhauser

Song

Duration: 6' 00"

CHF: 21.60

Instrumentation: for high voice (soprano or tenor) and piano

Texts: Joseph von Eichendorff

The four poems by Eichendorff are arranged so as to outline a day cycle.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 22.00

Instrumentation: für Sopran, Bariton und Klavier

Duration: 3' 00"

CHF: 13.20

Parergon 13, Nr. 19, Musikwerknummer 658

Instrumentation: Tenor, Sopran-Duo, Mandoline, Klavier /Keyboard, E-Baß und Schlagzeug

Texts: René Wohlhauser

Song
ISBN 978-3-907467-24-4

Duration: 5' 14"

CHF: 18.60

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"

CHF: 122.00

Parergon 13, Nr. 18, Musikwerknummer 656

Instrumentation: Bariton, Sopran-Backvocal, el. Gitarre, Klavier, E-Baß und Schlagzeug

Texts: René Wohlhauser

Song

Duration: 4' 56"

CHF: 20.40

Based on 'Den Zeiten' by Philipp Otto Runge

Instrumentation: for soprano (with a strong lower register), baritone and piano

Texts: Clemens Brentano

The Morning (fantasy for piano solo), The Day (Scherzo for vocals and piano), The Evening (song cycle), intermezzo, The Night (fragments for voices and piano). Text by C. Brentano and others.

Duration: 60' 00"

CHF: 74.00

Instrumentation: for two sopranos, choir and string orchestra

Duration: 20' 00"

CHF: 43.80

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"

CHF: 38.70

Instrumentation: for soprano and mixed a-cappella choir

Texts: Gottfried Keller, Angelus Silesius

The simple notation combines with the texts by Gottfried Keller and Angelus Silesius, creating to produce a multi-faceted musical statement. The limitations of good vocal voice-leading presents high-demands in intonation.

Duration: 12' 40"

CHF: 19.20

Instrumentation: for solo soprano, mixed choir and orchestra (3fl/2tpt/2tbn/str)

Texts: Emmy Hennings, Klabund, Richard Huelsenbeck, Hugo Ball

Texts by Emmy Hennings, Klabund, Richard Huelsenbeck and Hugo Ball.

Duration: 50' 00"

CHF: 124.90

Instrumentation: for soprano and piano

9 settings of texts by Robert Walser.

Duration: 20' 00"

CHF: 37.20

Instrumentation: for soprano and piano

Texts: Marianne Bonzon

Text: Marianne Bonzon

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 15.00

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"

CHF: 21.60

Instrumentation: for soprano and piano

Setting of a prose poem by Michael Harlow.

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 24.60

Instrumentation: for six female voices (2 sopranos, 2 mezzo-sopranos, 2 altos) and percussion instruments (6 Chinese blocks played by the singers, 7 terracotta bells or high-sounding gongs (one player))

Words deriving from the spoken language of the Lisu, a Tibetan-Burmese population.

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 22.20

Instrumentation: for soprano and harp

Popular text taken from a Sardinian lullaby.

Duration: 6' 00"

CHF: 12.00

Instrumentation: for soprano and piano

Texts: Claudio Saltarelli

Duration: 4' 00"

CHF: 14.40

Parergon 12, Nr. 37, 2. Fassung, Musikwerknummer 2081

Instrumentation: Sopran, Tenor, el. Gitarre verzerrt, Klavier/Keyboard, E-Baß und Drums

Texts: René Wohlhauser

Song

Duration: 5' 50"

CHF: 17.40

Instrumentation: for four female voices (OratorSMezA) and ensemble (fl.ob.cl/perc/pf.cel/vn.va.vc)

A short musical theatre in three parts to be handled as a non-stop performance.

Duration: 9' 00"

CHF: 24.00

Instrumentation: for soprano, trombone and piano

Setting of 4 prose texts by Jürg Schubiger.

Duration: 17' 00"

CHF: 45.60

Instrumentation: for soprano and guitar

Texts: Tan Tsien

1. Elegy
2. Invention
3. Pastoral

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 13.20

Parergon 13, Nr. 24, Musikwerknummer 689

Instrumentation: Sopran, Bariton, el. Gitarre, Klavier/Keyboard, E-Baß und Schlagzeug

Texts: René Wohlhauser

Song

Duration: 4' 55"

CHF: 15.00

Instrumentation: for soprano and piano

Texts: Peter Härtling

Text: Peter Härtling.

Duration: 6' 00"

CHF: 18.70

Instrumentation: for soprano, alto and piano

Settings of 5 texts by Kurt Schwitters.
For Andres Giedion's 80th birthday.

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 31.30

Instrumentation: for soprano, mixed choir and string orchestra

Texts: Angelus Silesius

A very good amateur choir with a professional orchestral accompaniment can perform this varified piece.

Duration: 17' 00"

CHF: 21.30

Songs

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

Texts: Johannes Hadlaub

Duration: 20' 00"

CHF: 29.40

Instrumentation: for soprano, female choir & piano

4 texts by Michael Harlow.
Im memoriam William Cumming, NZ painter.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 28.80

Parergon 13, Nr. 27, Musikwerknummer 809

Instrumentation: Tenor, Sopran, E-Gitarre, Keyboard, E-Baß und Schlagzeug

Texts: René Wohlhauser

Song

Duration: 4' 43"

CHF: 14.40

Instrumentation: for soprano, baritone, horn, two trumpets, trombone, percussion and strings

Texts: Altgriechisch

Sappho and Alkaios from the isle of Lesbos are amongst the most prestigious representatives of Greek lyrics strongly connected with the Orpheus saga. After the heavenly singer has lost his beloved Eurydice to the underworld and, spurned by his endless mourning, he seeks the love of other women. Bacchante tear him to pieces in an angry rage and cast his head into the sea. The tide washes it onto the shores of Lesbos - here his mouth is once again brought to speech by the lyric of the island.
Mythological notions merge with personal experience and sufferance in connection with the erotic. Eros is the 'weirdest God' (Alkaois) whose effect is to rip open the abyss between the highest fulfilment and the degeneration towards death. The elemental force with which he encompasses man awakes in him an orpheic longing for immortality and the desire to overcome the underworld; simultaneously bringing even more painfully the forlornness of his wish to consciousness. While Alkaios attempts to forget in wild drunkenness and sexual indulgence, we eavesdrop on Sappho, and the dark tones of a wish for love in which pain resonates with the transient.
EIS EROTA combines fragments from both poets to produce a dialogue on the subject of love and death.


Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 48.70

Instrumentation: für Sopran, Bariton und Orchester (4,4,4,4 - 4,4,3,1 - Schlgz(4), Pk - Str)

Texts: Sappho, Alkaios

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 40.80

Instrumentation: for soprano and string orchestra

Setting of texts for children by Jürg Schubiger.
Suitable for an amateur orchestra.

Duration: 20' 00"

CHF: 46.80

Musik für Sopran, Bariton, gemischten Chor und Orchester nach Gedichten von Moulana Djalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273)

Instrumentation: Sopran solo, Bariton solo, gemischten Chor 2 Fl,, 2 Ob, 2 Kl, 2 Fag, 4 Hörner 2 Trompeten, 3 Posaunen, Timpani, 2 Schlagzeug, Streicher

Texts: Rumi, deutsch und persisch

1. Satz Adagio, Bariton und Orchester
2. Satz Allegro con brio, Sopran, Bariton und Orchester (wurde noch nicht aufgeführt)
3. Satz Andante, Chor und Orchester
4. Satz, Adagio, Sopran und Orchester,
5. molto Agitato Sopran, Bariton und Orchester1. Satz Adagio, Bariton und Orchester
2. Satz Allegro con brio, Sopran, Bariton und Orchester,
4. Satz, Adagio, Sopran und Orchester,
5. molto Agitato Sopran, Bariton und Orchester,
(der 3. Satz Andante, Chor und Orchester wurde noch nicht aufgeführt.

Duration: 50' 00"

CHF: 84.60

Instrumentation: for soprano, clarinet (also Ebcl, bcl), violoncello (also viola), piano (also clavichord) and DAT play-back

Texts: Fernando Pessoa

Eight scenes from the poems of Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa (1888-1935). The Soprano sings and recites in Portuguese, German and French. Very demanding for all performers.

Duration: 48' 00"

CHF: 48.00

Three songs

Instrumentation: for two sopranos and piano

Texts: Andrew Marvell

The voices are as a singular unit or in a dialogue with the complicated piano accompaniment.

Duration: 18' 00"

CHF: 38.70

Instrumentation: für Sopran, Oboe und Orgel (oder Klarinette bzw. Oboe oder Flöte und Klavier)

Texts: Anonymi

The texts, ranging from sorrow to hope, are derived from political prisoners of various dictatorships. The Soprano voice is identical for all versions.

Duration: 13' 00"

CHF: 21.60

Instrumentation: for soprano and instrumental ensemble (flute, clarinet (bass clarinet), violin, violoncello and piano)

Texts: Kurt Marti

The poems are taken from different collections to form a cycle, the inner and outer components of which convey particularly Swiss characteristics: weighty burden, efficiency, precision as a substitute for happiness, and indifference. The soprano's phraseology encompasses both recitative and flamboyant melodies.

Duration: 16' 00"

CHF: 20.70

Instrumentation: for soprano and organ

Duration: 5' 00"

CHF: 13.20

Instrumentation: for soprano, altus and 9 instruments (recorder (or aulos), flute, clarinet, saxophone, violin, viola, violoncello, bandoneon, percussion)

Texts: Hans-Jürg Meier, Rainer Maria Rilke, Hilde Domin, Virginia Woolf, William Butler Yeats, Mona van Duyn, Dante Alighieri, antike A

Profane consideration of the Annunciation scene. Sacred music in a double proscenium and a three-part main piece.

Duration: 58' 00"

CHF: 108.00

Musik für Sopran, Mezzosopran und Streichquartett

Instrumentation: Sopran, Mezzosopran und Streichquartett ("2Vl, Vla, Vc)

Texts: aus dem Psalm 130

1. de profundis (Mezzosopran), 2. fiant aures tuae (Sopran),
3. sustinuit anima mea (Mezzosopran), 4. misericordia (Sopran),
5. de profundis (Sopran und Mezzosopran)
es gibt auch eine Version Sopran und Bariton

Duration: 47' 00"

CHF: 51.00

Instrumentation: for Soprano, piano and orchestra

Midnight Tune is inspired by the poem Midnight Piano Tune by Xi Chuan, a China's modern poet, who was provoked by a piano tune he heard at midnight into deep reflections on the nature of life. The poet stunned me so much with his mind-blowing imagination of images, otherworldly and creative use of words, and the rich musicality and distinct rhythm in the poem that I could not tell whether I was lost in the extra-powerful magic power of the modern poetic language or overwhelmed by the glass sky-walk built by the modern poem between reality and fantasy, or whether my music gave his poem wings or his poem brought my music to life.

Duration: 12' 30"

CHF: 47.30

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"

CHF: 33.00

Instrumentation: for soprano, 4 Renaissance flutes and lute

Texts from the "Canticum Canticorum".
Music in six parts about the "Santa Maria Formosa" church by Mauro Codussi (Venice):
I ort und zeit (gondola);
II er besingt sie (caminada);
III sie besingt ihn (caminada);
IV minne (hortus conclusus);
V wein (cielo);
VI siegel (fuoco).

Duration: 17' 00"

CHF: 39.00

Instrumentation: for soprano, choir (SATB), flute, zink (tr), trombone and organ

1. Doxologie
2. Antiphon
3. Ektenie I
4. Hymne
5. Ektenie II

Duration: 20' 00"

CHF: 26.70

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

I Jünger
II Apostel
III Märtyrer

CHF: 104.00

Instrumentation: for soprano and flute

Texts: Vergil

The sixth book of Vergil's 'Aeneid' describes Aeneas' descent into the underworld and his subsequent ascent from Pluto's realm. He is accompanied on his dangerous journey by the Cumean Sibyl. The texts of the piece Oratio Sibyllae for soprano and flute are based on some of her warnings and prophecies. The flute, which guided Gluck's Orpheus into the underworld and also plays the role of protector from the dangers of the "other world" in the Magic Flute, floats above and beside the singing voice, merging into one.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 15.00

from Leaves of Grass/on the Beach by Walt Whitman

Instrumentation: Sopran, Flöte, Klarinette, Violine, Viola, Violoncello, Kontrabass, Klavier

Texts: Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

Duration: 13' 00"

CHF: 20.40

Instrumentation: for soprano, violoncello and percussion

Texts: Giambattista Marino, Catharina von Greiffenberg

Extracts of the Concerto lirico.
1) " Miro, rimiro… " for soprano and violoncello (or accordion)
Lyrical air on a poem by Giambattista Marino.
2) " Schwing dich, meine Seel" for soprano and percussion ad libitum
Large dramatic air on a poem by Catharina von Greiffenberg. The percussion comprises a tam tam and six temple blocks.


Duration: 12' 30"

CHF: 15.00

Instrumentation: for soprano, flute and piano

Texts: Giacomo Leopardi, Michelangelo Buonarroti

Two poems by the Italian romantic poet Giacomo Leopardi flank a lament on the effects of ageing carved in stone by Michelangelo. In spite of all the despair over vanishing powers and the insight not to have ended one's life successfully at its climax, Michelangelo's work still emanates an unbroken will for life fighting against faith. Leopardi's deep melancholy, however, appears in a tender and ambiguous light, giving space to a slight glimmer of hope.
The two different works were set into music accordingly: The music for Michelangelo's poem is rhythmically firm, while Leopardi's is rhythmically and metrically free and floating.

Duration: 22' 00"

CHF: 38.40

Instrumentation: für Sopran, Mezzosopran und 4 Renaissancetraversflöten

Texts: Francesco Petrarca

Sonett 148 aus "Canzoniero": "Non Tessin, Po, Varo, Adige, et Tebro".

Duration: 4' 00"

CHF: 21.60

Instrumentation: for soprano and piano

Texts: François Debluë

Text: François Debluë

Duration: 20' 00"

CHF: 22.80

Instrumentation: for soprano, baritone, flute and percussion

After texts from 'Oracula Sibyllina' and Vergil's 'Aeneid' (adaptation of CARMEN SIBYLLAE and ORATIO SIBYLLAE).
'Oracula Sibyllae' is the combination of two works that deal with the sibyls: Carmen Sibyllae for baritone and percussion and Oratio Sibyllae for soprano and flute. The ancient books 'Oracula Sibyllina' contain the prophecies of the Sibylla which, engulfed by divine powers, utters her usually unrequested and fatal predictions.

Duration: 24' 00"

CHF: 28.20

Instrumentation: for solo quartet (SATB)

Texts: Omar Khayam

Morning...Perpetual changeAway, awayCarpe diem

Duration: 11' 00"

CHF: 24.00

JazzRockBlues-Stück Nr. 1, Parergon 38, Nr. 1, Musikwerknummer 978 / JazzRockBlues Piece No. 1, Parergon 38, No. 1, music work number 978

Instrumentation: Sopran, Bariton und Klavier

Duration: 3' 27"

CHF: 9.00

Instrumentation: for soprano, flute and guitar

Texts: Max E. Keller, E. Galeano

The setting to music of four of my own texts: Globalisation as worldwide exploitation of people and nature; freedon as unlimited and uninhibited profit maximisation; Education as manipulative conformation. The 5th text comes from Eduardo Galeano from Uruguay: repress how the rich countries accumulate their riches.

Duration: 14' 00"

CHF: 18.60

Instrumentation: for soprano, alto flute and guitar

Texts: Georg-Philipp Harsdörffer

The text, which evokes the four seasons, dates back to the 17th century. The title of the work, as well as the titles for each piece, are taken from the poem: Es bläst der sanffte West – Ihr Hertz ist von safran – Der Erden Kelterblut – Die Gäste gehen fort.

Duration: 11' 30"

CHF: 21.00

Instrumentation: for a cappella vocal ensemble (SATB)

Duration: 35' 00"

CHF: 58.20

Instrumentation: Gesang (Sopran h - h''), Klavier

Texts: Gottfried Keller

Duration: 2' 02"

CHF: 9.00

Psalm 130 (129) in Armenian

Instrumentation: for soprano solo, English horn and four strings

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 16.20

Texts: Conrad Ferdinand Meyer

Duration: 2' 19"

CHF: 9.00

Instrumentation: for soprano, tenor, 2 baritones, speaker and instrumental ensemble (1.1.1.1/1.1.1.0/perc/2.2.1.1)

After a scene from Shakespeare's "Troilus and Cressida". The psychological complexity of the scene is realised musically in polyphonic layers.

Duration: 18' 00"

CHF: 70.70

Ergon 30, Nr. 2, Musikwerknummer 2057, Libretto vom Komponisten zusammengestellt

Instrumentation: Oper: Sopran, Mezzosopran, Tenor, Bariton, 1-1-2-1, 1-1-2-1, 1, 6-4-4-4-2 Klavierauszug: Sopran, Mezzosopran, Tenor, Bariton und 1-5 Klaviere

Texts: Max Frisch

Die am Stadttheater Luzern in Zusammenarbeit mit den Weltmusiktagen 2004 uraufgeführte Oper nach dem gleichnamigen Buch von Max Frisch, behandelt die Beziehung zwischen ihm und Ingeborg Bachmann. Die Problematisierung (und Formbarkeit) der Identitätsbildung wird durch algorithmische Verfahren gespiegelt, die aber kritisch hinterfragt und subjektiv gebrochen werden.

Duration: 60' 00"

CHF: 84.20

Instrumentation: Gesangsquartett oder gemischter Chor und Klavier

Texts: Johann Jakob Reithard

Duration: 5' 00"

CHF: 19.80

Ergon 30/II

Instrumentation: arranged for soprano and piano

Based on the novel "Mein Name sei Gantenbein" by Max Frisch.
The opera "Gantenbein" saw its premiere in November 2004 at the Lucerne Theater, performed by four vocal soloists and the Lucerne Symphony Orchestra. The subject of the opera is the relationship between Max Frisch and Ingeborg Bachmann. In the "Rachearie" (revenge aria) she strikes back at his accusations and suspicions made out of jealousy.

Duration: 2' 00"

CHF: 18.60

Instrumentation: for soprano solo, choir (SATB) and piano

Duration: 4' 00"

CHF: 18.60

Ergon 31, Nr. 1, Musikwerknummer 1183

Instrumentation: Sopran und Klavier

Duration: 3' 00"

CHF: 15.60

Instrumentation: Soprano, Flute/Piccolo, Bass Clarinet Bb, Piano, Violin, Cello, and Percussion (one player)

Texts: Li Bai (701 -762)

Instrumentation: Soprano Flute/Piccolo (Paper + Paper Roll) Bass Clarinet Bb (Paper + Paper Roll) Piano + Nylon string or fishing string for bowing Glass soft Tree branch Violin (Paper + Paper Roll) Cello (Paper + Paper Roll) Percussion (one player): Bass Drum (or CN big Drum) Cymbals Metal Board Little Tibet metal temple bowls 8 (pieces in micro Tone) Big Gong + little river Stone Shell Chain Cello Bow Stick Vibraslap

Duration: 10' 20"

CHF: 33.00

Instrumentation: for soprano and clarinet

Texts: Salvatore Quasimodo

Quasimodo's multilayered poetry is transposed into four musical images.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 17.40

Ergon 31, Nr. 2, Musikwerknummer 1304

Instrumentation: Sopran und Klavier

Duration: 3' 00"

CHF: 13.80

Instrumentation: for solo voice (T possibly S) and orchestra (2.2.2.2/4.2.3.1/ timp.2perc/str)

Texts: Josef Freiherr von Eichendorff

Written for the 1000-year anniversary of the city of Danzig. A representation of five poems by the romantic poet Josef Freiherr von Eichendorff for high voice (tenor, at all events soprano) and orchestra with transparent texture.Todeslust - Im Alter - Die Zeit geht schnell - Memento - In Danzig.

Duration: 16' 00"

CHF: 49.00

Instrumentation: for soprano and string quartet

Texts: Marianne Bonzon Brachetta

Duration: 16' 00"

CHF: 27.60

Ergon 31, Nrn. 1-7, 8-13 (Double-Fassungen), auf lautpoetische Gedichte des Komponisten

Instrumentation: for Soprano, Baritone and Piano

Ein Zyklus, der einen Bogen vom Klavierlied u?ber Techniken des
sog. neuen Singens bis zum Musiksprechen in verschiedenen Kombinationen
schlägt und somit die unterschiedlichsten Facetten des kreativen, ungewohnten
Umgangs mit Stimme in einem Prozeß der Verwandlung beleuchtet.

Duration: 22 Min. (1-7), 47 Min. (1-13)

CHF: 44.40

Instrumentation: for soprano, trombone, cello, percussion and piano

The Ensemble Eunoia's suggestion that I write a piece dealing with the letter 'U' set off in me a chain of associations relating to this vowel. The starting point was the tonal character of the phoneme U: For me its dark, earthy, warm timbre equated to the symbolic image of the Mother ("uterus", "ursprung" (=origin)...). My text selection combines the following excerpts taken from literature and lore that evoke different aspects of the Mother symbol: In the 3rd hymn of the legendary poet and Dionysus priest Orpheus, night is celebrated as the Mother of gods and men. In the second part of Goethe's "Faust", Mephistopheles describes the nocturnal and sinister descent into the obscure realm of the Mothers ("No way! Into the untrodden ..."), where Faust wants to lead Helena back to life. A mother grieving for her son and creation forms the basis of the liturgical "Stabat Mater". And finally, the text of "Tao te Ching" to the "valley spirit" elevates the image of the Mother as the origin of heaven and earth to the spiritual.

Duration: 17' 00"

CHF: 57.00

Instrumentation: for soprano and violin

Texts: Max E. Keller

A contribution to the 'Zepernicker Liederbuch', 2001.

Duration: 4' 00"

CHF: 14.70

Parergon 17, Nr. 93,2 / 2. Fassung (2019), Musikwerknummer 1996

Instrumentation: für Sopran, Violine oder Trompete mit Dämpfer, Bariton ad lib. und Klavier

Andere Genres / Other styles (zwischen Neoklassik und Jazzrock).

Duration: 2' 00"

CHF: 10.80

Ergon 31, Nr. 3a, Musikwerknummer 1162, "Zerdehnte Zeit", auf ein Gedicht des Komponisten

Instrumentation: for soprano and piano

Duration: 5' 00"

CHF: 16.20

Ergon 31, Nr. 3b, Musikwerknummer 1306, auf ein Gedicht des Komponisten

Instrumentation: Sopran und Klavier

Duration: 5' 00"

CHF: 16.20

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

Duration: 4' 00"

CHF: 21.00

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"

CHF: 42.60

Ergon 33

Instrumentation: trio for soprano, flute and piano

Moment forms, contrasting structures and characters between complexity and simplicity combined with a particular kind of lyricism leads to changes in the perception of tempo. Parallel to the conflict with various forms of perception, there develops a grammar of constructive congruity, which should allow the beaten path to emerge as conclusive.

Duration: 13' 00"

CHF: 25.20

eine Art Oratorium auf lautpoetische Texte des Komponisten

Instrumentation: for Soprano, baritone, flute, clarinet, cello and piano

Duration: 80' 00"

CHF: 100.40

Instrumentation: Ein volksliedartiges Orchesterlied für Sopran, Mezzosopran, Chor und Orchester

Duration: 4' 14"

CHF: 17.30

Instrumentation: for soli (SSA), female choir (SSA) and small orchestra (fl.ob/perc/str)

Duration: 11' 00"

CHF: 60.60

Instrumentation: for cantor, three sopranos, mixed choir, congregation, three orators, three flutes, violoncello, double-bass and bongos

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 20.40

Instrumentation: for soprano and violin

Texts: Klaus Merz

In laconic, melancholic and simultaneously playfully poetic miniatures Klaus Merz mirrors in 'Löwen Löwen' surprising facets of the much praised lagunal city of Venice. Profound ambiguity is the point of departure for this musicalisation which partly proceeds as if on two levels before reuniting unawares.

Duration: 11' 00"

CHF: 16.80

A Christmas cantata

Instrumentation: for female choir (SSA), three soloists (SSA) and small orchestra (2ob,2tp,perc,v1,v2,va,vc,db

Duration: 13' 00"

CHF: 71.30

Ergon 36

Instrumentation: for soprano, flute, clarinet and violoncello

Based on an onomatopoeic text by the composer.
The development of an aesthetic of fragments as a metaphor for fragmentary perception.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 25.20

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 soprano, clarinet (bcl) and piano

Texts: Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

"It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singing somebody's beard."
One of ten aphorisms written by Lichtenberg more than two hundred years ago - and still surprisingly relevant today. This musical version attempts to transpose the concise, acuminate formulation into succinct, very divergent miniatures.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 20.40

Ergon 39

Instrumentation: for soprano, flute, clarinet, violoncello and piano

Based on an onomatopoeic text by the composer.
Sounds change from instrumental noises to sound frictions and from virtuousic buzzing to vocal noises.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 35.40

Ergon 31, Nr. 4c (3. Fassung), Musikwerknummer 1481, ("Am Rande des Singens"), auf instrumental geführte Silben des Komponisten

Instrumentation: for soprano and baritone

Teilweise spezielle Gesangstechniken am Rande des Singens.

Duration: 3' 00"

CHF: 14.40