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

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 21.00

Instrumentation: for bass clarinet, horn (Alphorn), violoncello and electronic (CD/DAT or MD)

After texts by Hannah Arendt.
This piece uses a half conventional score with 'cell' improvisation. All instruments are to be amplified where possible.

Duration: 21' 00"

CHF: 15.00

Paraphrase of the horn solos from 'Des Canyons aux Etoiles' by Olivier Messiaen

Instrumentation: for eight horns

As this is a kind of spatial music, the eight horns are positioned in a circle around the audience. A conductor is essential. Standard playing techniques but the part of the first horn is difficult.

Duration: 9' 30"

CHF: 20.40

Instrumentation: for oboe, horn and string trio

Opposing elements growing increasingly apart.
Rights of performance reserved.


Duration: 22' 00"

CHF: 24.00

Instrumentation: for two trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba

Duration: 9' 30"

CHF: 17.30

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 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 horn and piano

Drawn-out lines of the horn face gong-beats and dazzling interpolations of a piano prepared with two chains.

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 19.80

Instrumentation: for four horns

A concept for improvisation.
This piece deals with the deciphering of rules, making possible a joint language for the four instruments.


Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 18.70

Instrumentation: for brass quintet (1.2.1.1), voice and timpani

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 16.00

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

Instrumentation: for brass quintet, voice, timpani or for trumpet, french horn or saxophone, trombone, piano, double-bass and percussion

Duration: 9' 00"

CHF: 13.00

Instrumentation: for clarinet and brass instruments (cn.bugle[=2tpt]/hn.tbn.tb)

Adaptation of folk musical elements.

Duration: 13' 00"

CHF: 22.20

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 quintet.

Duration: 15' 20"

CHF: 49.80

Instrumentation: for piano, trumpet, horn, percussion and string orchestra

Duration: 23' 00"

CHF: 28.00

Instrumentation: for piccolo trumpet, Eb-trumpet, horn and three percussion

Short, fierce (also complex) cry out against equality in its handling of various aspects such as mankind, musical instruments, parameters, etc.

Duration: 7' 20"

CHF: 29.00

Instrumentation: for clarinet (horn), violin (violoncello) and partly prepared piano

Version I: cl.hn.vn.pf (op. 10a) Version II: cl.vn.vc.pf (op. 10b) After three fantastical poems about the origin of the world.

Duration: 14' 00"

CHF: 25.20

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 horn and piano

Very virtuosic for the horn. The pianist sings in the second movement (ad libitum).

Duration: 5' 00"

CHF: 20.40

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 six horns

Duration: 6' 00"

CHF: 17.40

Instrumentation: for wind quintet and string quartet

Duration: 11' 00"

CHF: 21.60

Instrumentation: 1 Fl, 1 Ob, 1 Kl, 1 Hrn, 1 Fag

Duration: 2' 45"

CHF: 12.00

Instrumentation: for horn in F

Duration: 1' 30"

CHF: 10.00

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

A horn line is sweet-talked with high intensity by perfect fourths and fifths, only on a low dynamic level.

Duration: 6' 30"

CHF: 13.80

Instrumentation: Flöte, Bassklarinette in B, Horn, Violine, Violoncello, Kontrabass, Klavier, Percussion

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 31.20

''Planet Music"

Instrumentation: for brass quintet (1.2.1.1) and piano

This work is in three movements, parts of which are in aleatoric notation.

Duration: 40' 00"

CHF: 42.00

Cycle

Instrumentation: for mixed choir, flute, two clarinets and horn

Texts: Joseph von Eichendorff

Night has probably never been praised higher and in so many facets by anyone other than Joseph von Eichendorff. For myself, his poems are equivalent to the music of Schubert and Schumann. A possible discovery of reality on the edge of the concrete, proceeding to point out another reality.

Duration: 18' 00"

CHF: 36.00

Instrumentation: for soprano saxophone, horn, trombone, percussion and piano

Partly with an improvised second piano (ad libitum).

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 19.80

19 Singings

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

Texts: Gert Loschütz

Text: Gert Loschütz.

Duration: 45' 00"

CHF: 67.80

Instrumentation: for 2 trumpets, horn, trombone and tuba

Duration: 15' 00"

CHF: 29.40

Instrumentation: Fl, Ob, Kl, Hn, Fg

Five Times ist in fünf Sätze gegliedert, welche die Wahrnehmung von musikalischen Verläufen zu unterscheiden versuchen. Dabei wird zeitlichen Verläufen wie Statik oder Dynamik, Vorhersehbarkeit oder Unvorhersehbarkeit nachgegangen. Der erste Satz folgt dem Aufbau eines Naturtonspektrums und entwickelt sich ausgehend vom Einklang zum weit aufgefächerten Klangvolumen, einen vorhersehbaren Verlauf. Der zweite Satz fokussiert auf der andauernden Entwicklung von musikalischen Elementen wie beispielsweise der Umspielung von Zentraltönen oder der Fragmentierung melodischer Gestalten. Der dritte Satz entwickelt sich, ausgehend von horizontaler Linienführung, verlaufend zu akkordischen Klangspektren. Der vierte Satz schafft Kontrast indem das Tempo der sich entwickelnden Elemente vorerst limitiert wird. Wiederholung und Homorhythmik dominieren das Satzgefüge bis auf dass es zerbirst. Der fünfte Satz sucht die Unvorhersehbarkeit in einer wechselhaften Entwicklung und fungiert als Reminiszenz an Vergangenes: er spielt mit dem Erinnern und streift Motive, Klänge und Strukturen, welche in Satz 1-4 erschienen sind.

Duration: 16' 00"

CHF: 38.40

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

Instrumentation: for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trumpet, trombone, double-bass, piano and percussion

I. Fluid Shapes, II. Light and Shadow, III. Symmetries - Broken Symmetries.Piano and trumpet accentuated.

Duration: 20' 00"

CHF: 45.30

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

Instrumentation: for brass ensemble (4 trumpets, 2 horns, tuba and 4 trombones)

An entertaining piece from German and English folk songs.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 30.00

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 horn, piano and thirteen instruments (2.(pic,afl).2(obda,ca).2(Ebcl).bcl.asx(ssx).1/1.1.1.1/pf(clavichord))

The solo horn is scored also for an authentic 19th century invention-horn, and the solo piano part (normal tuning) also plays a hammer piano (five octaves F - f4, sounding a quarter tone lower). The second piano in the ensemble is tuned a quarter tone lower. A discourse with Robert Schumann's music.

Duration: 17' 00"

CHF: 62.70

Instrumentation: for horn quartet and string orchestra

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 22.20

Instrumentation: for wind septet (fl, ob, cl, bh, bcl, bn, hn)

"The seagull continues to play. But she is no longer alone. They came one after the other, against the wind. A bassoon is here, a long, thin lament; an oboe, guttural; a horn, horns, various colours, dry in the brass; a deep voice, a sonorous bass draws long, thick threads through the sound carpet. Above me on the craggy ledge sit thirteen seagulls, each with a tone of its own. Highs and lows, warmth and coolness, a mystical choir, a serenade from within the wind."
The number of seagulls in this excerpt from a short story by the Swiss author Andreas Neeser makes reference to the number of instruments in Mozart's famous wind serenade 'Gran Partitia', which also lends its name to Neeser's short story. Published in a volume of stories entitled 'Unsicherer Grund' or 'Unsafe Ground' (Haymon, 2010), Neeser's 'Gran Partita' pays homage to nature and the legends of Bretagne: An observation made at the westernmost side of Bretagne and a metaphor within which man and his emotions are mirrored.
Commissioned by the Bläsersolisten Aargau, my 'Gran Partita' reflects the music in Neeser's text and the nature it evokes - the structural elements of the short story and also the geology and fauna of Bretagne. The instrument's scales symbolise granite, the predominant stone in this area, and the vegetation and topos of the sea and the call of the seagulls. Non-musical parameters define the musical material, the form of which offers absolute priority to the melodic line. This leads to an autonomous sound metaphor comprising lines and colours, that makes the underlying substance as an explanation no longer necessary.

Duration: 13' 00"

CHF: 28.70

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 flute, (bfl, cbfl), horn, two trumpets, trombone and tuba

Helical searching for osculation points.

Duration: 12' 00"

CHF: 21.30

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

In reference to the nocturne K 286 by Mozart

Instrumentation: for orchestra (4 string groups and 8 horns)

Duration: 5' 00"

CHF: 25.30

Instrumentation: for flute, clarinet, horn, trombone and four-handed piano

Duration: 13' 00"

CHF: 37.80

Instrumentation: for horn in F, violin and piano

Duration: 9' 00"

CHF: 55.20

Instrumentation: for transverse flute, natural horn, double bass

Formal references lead to the grotesque paintings of the Domus Aurea rooms in Rome. As regards content, the sirens have their grand appearance.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 16.00

Instrumentation: for horn and organ

Duration: 3' 30"

CHF: 18.60

Instrumentation: for ensemble (fl.ssx.tsx.barsx/hn.3tpt.3tbn/pf/db)

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 17.30

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 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

Ergon 17

Instrumentation: for horn solo (and tam-tam)

In a high range of possible subtleties in the mixing of sounds this piece arranges and deals with breathing in music. The piece is based on fine nuances between cerulean blue and manganese blue, between cadmium red and permanent red, embedded in the grammar of intensity, opacity, pigmentation of a sound colour alphabet. Micro breath-lines of various length bind to macro breath-lines by artificial extension.

Duration: 8' 00"

CHF: 19.20

Instrumentation: for horn solo

A piece demanding very high technical skills, composed as a homage to Robert Faller. It is inspired by the music of Robert Schumann. At the end the hornist simultaneously sings one tone and plays.

Duration: 5' 00"

CHF: 10.80

Instrumentation: for oboe, bass clarinet, bassoon, horn and piano

Duration: 6' 00"

CHF: 22.20

Instrumentation: for eight instruments (fl.cl/hn/cel/hp.pf/2perc)

Duration: 15' 00"

CHF: 30.00

Instrumentation: for panpipes, transverse flutes, recorders, clarinets, saxophone, horns, trombones, trumpets

Duration: 16' 00"

CHF: 39.60

Instrumentation: for horn

Duration: 8' 30"

CHF: 14.00

Music

Instrumentation: for horn solo

In four parts.

Duration: 7' 00"

CHF: 13.30

Instrumentation: for horn solo

1. Intrada
2. Presto
3. Aria I - Rezitativo - Aria II

Duration: 5' 00"

CHF: 12.70

3 part series

Instrumentation: for horn solo

Duration: 5' 00"

CHF: 12.70

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

Duration: 20' 00"

CHF: 40.80

Instrumentation: for horn solo and string orchestra

This piece, written for the Lucerne Festival Strings, can be easily introduced into a 'normal' string orchestra programme. It does, however, require great solo skills from the horn player.

Duration: 6' 15"

CHF: 18.60

Instrumentation: für Sopraninoblockflöte, Klarinette, Englischhorn, Violine, Kastagnetten, Tempelblock, Zink, Trompete, Horn, Posaune, Laute, Harfe

12 Fragmente zum Heidelberger Totentanz: Der Konig, von allem stadt, Der bruder, Die junckfrauiwe, Der artzt, Der ritter, Der spieler, Der schriber, Der wucherer, Der kaiser, Der wirt, der dumherr.

Duration: 2' 00"

CHF: 9.00

Instrumentation: for eight horns

A soft spatial piece for eight spatially distributed hornists.

Duration: 6' 30"

CHF: 16.80

Instrumentation: for percussion, accordion, saxophone, horn and piano

The percussionist plays both a principal and theatrical role performing on a table. The remaining instruments are, for the most, independent of one another; the piano is placed at the far-end of the scene. The sounds produced on the table are amplified.

Duration: 10' 00"

CHF: 18.00

Instrumentation: for horn and percussion

Duration: 9' 00"

CHF: 25.80

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

Duration: 9' 00"

CHF: 19.30

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 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 oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trombone and percussion

Work series A: Music for concerts.

Duration: 11' 00"

CHF: 24.00

Instrumentation: for violin and horn

Il filo (the thread) is the name of the underlying theme: the sustained note, from which other things slowly emerge, split off or even oppose. The two instruments start unisono while the sustained tone soon gets rhythmized and played around by a second tone. They veer away from the unisono to find themselves reunited on the same note after various phases. In the final part both spin together or alternately on the same thread, leave it, play around it and give it individual colours.

Duration: 5' 00"

CHF: 13.20

Instrumentation: for trumpet 1 in B, trumpet 2 in B, horn (F), trombone and tuba

The chirping of crickets is generally considered to be soft and quiet, it can, however, become truly clamorous when when many crickets are heard at close quarters - just as one can experience it in the copses or groves of Greece. What is apparently weak can, en mass and under specific circumstances, develop unimagined power. In German the word for cricket is 'Grillen' and carries with it another maeaning: fantastical or dull thoughts.

Duration: 6' 00"

CHF: 16.80

Instrumentation: für Hornquartett

CHF: 17.30

Instrumentation: Solovioline, Flöte, Baritonsaxophon (Es), Horn (F), Akkordeon, Violine I, Violine II, Violoncellov

Das Werk in vier Sätzen beruht auf "Entgegensetzungen" (contrapposizioni) einfacher Grundstrukturen, deren Dialektik jeweils einen anderen Ausgang nimmt. Die Viersätzigkeit ist eine spielerische Anlehnung an die klassische Symphonik.
Im 1. stehen sich Punktefelder der Streicher in wechselnder Dichte und kurze und harte Bläserakkorde gegenüber. Im 2. Satz - quasi das Adagio - schwebt die Solovioline hoch über einer Klangfläche. Im 3. Satz geht es um Improvisation über einem notierten walking bass des Cellos. Der 4.Satz ist ein veritables Rondo.



Duration: 11' 00"

CHF: 19.80

CHF: 30.00

Risoluto - Andantino - Presto ma non tanto

Instrumentation: Streichorchester und 2 Hörner in Cst

Duration: 14' 00"

CHF: 21.60

Instrumentation: für Jugendensemble (Alt-Saxophone in Es, Horn in F, Marimbaphon, Klavier, Akkordeon, Violine, Kontrabass)

Duration: 11' 00"

CHF: 36.60