Christian Jost

There is no other work more closely associated with the organ than Johann Sebastian Bach's Toccata in D minor. During my compositional preparation, I repeatedly found myself returning to this work. I...

Kompositionsauftrag von Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien, Brucknerhaus Linz, Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical Madrid, Gewandhaus zu Leipzig, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian Lissabon, National Cen...

Rumor Images' sind etwa ein Jahr nach der Urauführung meiner Oper 'Rumor' entstanden und bilden eine für Solocello und Klavier komponierte Konzentration des ersten Bildes. Eine aus Gerüchten wachsende...

El trío Pieces of a Dream, de menos de 40 minutos de duración, es música de cámara comprimida en el espíritu de un trío de jazz clásico con el objetivo de improvisar sobre tres secuencias oníricas dif...

Portrait II es una obra virtuosa, pero también saca a relucir la especial naturaleza cantabile del instrumento. Recomendada para conciertos y concursos.

Christian Jost spent the summer of 1987 in an Indian reservation in Arizona. Impressed by the foreign culture and deeply moved by the visit of a Native American burial site, he composed - apart from o...

lautlos ist im Umfeld von Christian Josts Choroper Angst - 5 Pforten einer Reise in das Innere der Angst entstanden. So basiert auch lautlos auf einer Stimmung des Ungewissen, Suchenden, ja sogar Resi...

My work lautlos II for solo cello further explores the idea of an inner dialogue between the performer and his or her instrument, in a manner similar to my previous work lautlos I. The instrumentalist...

Das Werk ist eine Weiterführung der geigerischen Tradition von Maurice Ravels Konzertrhapsodie Tzigane. Das mitreißende Stück ist auch für Wettbewerbe eine gute Alternative anstelle häufig gespielter...

'Zauberei, Magie, Mythen, Legenden, dies sind die großen Themen barocker Opern - Ausdruck der Sehnsucht jener Zeit, sich durch die Illusion der Oper dem Phantastischen hingeben zu können. Diese unverk...

Every player may imagine a wishful portrait for this short elegiac piece. Musically inspired by contrasting works such as 'Portrait for Tracy' by the jazz bassist Jaco Pastorius and the Saraband in D...

The Greek poetess Sappho wrote her poems, which have survived in fragmentary form, in exile in Sicily in about 600 BC. Full of natural intensity and liveliness, her verses revolve around the condition...

On the poem by the same name by E.E.Cummings.

The richly varied concert piece shows how well the composer, himself a brilliant piano player, knows how to use the instrument. His polyphonic, complex compositional style gives way to various possibi...

In this trio, as in most of his compositions, Jost has pictures and associations with true incidents, films and novels in his mind. What inspired him to write this piece was Joseph Conrad's novel 'Hea...

'Hamlet-Echos' comes from the full-length opera 'Hamlet' in which Christian Jost interprets Shakespeare's tragedy as 'story of a surreal journey inward'. By having Hamlet sing in a female voice, Jost...

Jost has set to music 'Melancholy' and 'Afternoon', two tender poems by Kiki Dimoula, the most important contemporary Greek lyricist. Combining the human voice with the sound of a string quartet, he t...