Elena Kats-Chernin

Note by the composer: 'This piece was written in 2006 (for violoncello and piano) for an exhibition dedicated to artists suffering from schizophrenia. The basis of the piece is a sequence of four chor...

Note by the composer: 'This piece was written in 2006 (for violoncello and piano) for an exhibition dedicated to artists suffering from schizophrenia. The basis of the piece is a sequence of four chor...

Created in 2000, this work for children's choir and large orchestra was transformed by the Australian composer into the present version with piano accompaniment in 2008. Even in the reduced and conden...

The Australian composer transformed this work for children's choir and large orchestra, composed in 2000, into the present version with piano accompaniment in 2008. Even in the reductively condensed v...

The piece is part of the ballet Wild Swans, choreographed by Meryl Tankard at the Sydney Opera House in 2002, based on the fairy tale The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen. Originally scored for s...

I am Cello is one of several solo pieces by means of which the Australian-based composer remained in contact with her interpreters all over the world during the time of the coronavirus pandemic, compo...

Note by the composer: "This piece was written in 2006 (for violoncello and piano) for an exhibition dedicated to artists suffering from schizophrenia. The basis of the piece is a sequence of four chor...

The rhapsodic piece of almost ten minutes draws its charm from changing metres and various dramatic climaxes within an overall dark, overcast mood. The Ballade (ballad) of the title develops, after a...

Mit Der Wind in den Weiden, uraufgeführt 2021, schuf Elena Kats-Chernin die erste Opern-Bearbeitung des berühmten Buches von Kenneth Grahame. Vorliegende kleine Suite für Bläserensemble vereint nach V...

In 1996, clarinettist Peter Jenkin, a member of the Sydney Alpha Ensemble, asked several composers in Australia to write one-minute pieces for a concert. Elena Kats-Chernin drew on melodic and harmoni...

Dieses Stück ist eine Hommage an Elena Kats-Chernins Mutter, die als Augenärztin in Buchara in Usbekistan arbeitete. Weil es dort äußerst trocken und sandig war, litten viele der Einheimischen unter A...

Being Russian born I have a strong connection to the ballet scores of Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev and Stravinsky, and as a result in the Wild Swans, more than in any other work of mine, I allowed myself th...

Russian Rag ist eines von Elena Kats-Chernins bekanntesten Stücken, wurde von ihr für verschiedene Besetzungen arrangiert und fand unter anderem als Filmmusik in dem Knet-Animationsfilm Mary & Max Ver...

Der Welterfolg aus dem Ballett 'Wild Swans' hier arrangiert für Streichquartett.

This three-minute piece for string quartet unites the typical features of Elena Kats-Chernin's compositions: blues harmony, a motor-like rhythm driven by syncopes, bittersweet melodies and austere-poe...

Ursprünglich für die Suite Silver Poetry, a Suite on Australian Images und die deutsche Flötistin Christiane Meininger geschrieben, deren speziell entworfene Flöte diesen Namen trägt ('Poesie in Silbe...

Melancholische Tangos sind eine Spezialität von Elena Kats-Chernin. Silver Pearls ist ein lebhafteres Exemplar, bewahrt aber poetisch-transparenten Charakter. Auf der CD Blue Silence (Vexations840 120...

Mit Der Wind in den Weiden, uraufgeführt 2021, schuf Elena Kats-Chernin die erste Opern-Bearbeitung des berühmten Buches von Kenneth Grahame. Vorliegende kleine Suite für Bläserensemble vereint nach V...

Mit Der Wind in den Weiden, uraufgeführt 2021, schuf Elena Kats-Chernin die erste Opern-Bearbeitung des berühmten Buches von Kenneth Grahame. Vorliegende kleine Suite für Bläserensemble vereint nach V...

Tangos, like ragtimes and waltzes, are an integral part of Elena Kats-Chernin's music, always in a new and varied form. In it, the composer allusively combines her present time with the classical trad...

Dieses Album versammelt eine Reihe kurzer Stücke der Komponistin in Fassungen für Violine und Klavier. Unter ihnen Hits wie Russian Rag, Slicked Back Tango, Naive Waltz oder Peggy's Minute Rag, oft en...

Eliza's Aria is a classical aria from the ballet Wild Swans, composed by Uzbekistan composer Elena Kats-Chernin. The piece was first recorded by soprano Jane Sheldon and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchest...

Eliza's Aria is a classical aria from the ballet Wild Swans, composed by Uzbekistan composer Elena Kats-Chernin. The piece was first recorded by soprano Jane Sheldon and the Tasmanian Symphony Orchest...

Lloyds TSB's new high profile advertising campaign, screened on TV in the UK since 4 February 2007, has attracted a vast amount of attention - specifically because of its music! The accompanying mus...