Poul Ruders

According to tradition, a mid- or late-19th century instrumental Romance - or Romanza - is a shortish composition of predominantly melodic nature, with a slight leaning toward the sentimental. In seve...

THRONE (1988) for Clarinet and Piano was composed on a commission from the Swedish clarinetist Hakon Rosenberg. Structurally it is organized in an arch form. Although it begins in the piano of the wor...

Tattoo For One composed in 1984 is a virtuosic work for Clarinet Solo by important Danish composer Poul Ruders. Dedicated to Mette Bugge Madsen, this is a veritable tour de force, an impressive work i...

Poul Roduers' work for Solo Percussion dating from 1988. With Latin and World drums included in the instrumentation this is a precise and detailed yet expansive piece.

Solo violin part for Violin Concerto No. 1 for Violin solo and Harp, Harpsichord and Strings by Poul Ruders (1981).

Ruders writes: This short piece 'Variations' for violin solo is composed of 57 bars, which you could call the theme. Each of the bars or musical units are then repeated, but in a reshuffled order, so...

Poul Ruders Bel Canto for Violin Solo.

Summer's Prelude & Winter's Fugue is a fantastic Violin solo, expertly composed by Poul Ruders. This fantastic piece was Commissioned by ARD International Music Competition, Munich in 2009.

12 CANONS for VIOLIN and GUITAR (2012). Dedicated to David Starobin. Premiere at Curtis Institute, Philadelphia, on 2 April, 2013. Duration: approx. : 13 minutes.

The Rabbit Sends In A Little Bill for Violin and Piano with Narrator was composed by Poul Ruders in 2014. Text from 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland' by Lewis Carrol.

For Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra. Arias, Interludes and Postlude from the opera The Handmaid's Tale. Based on the novel by Margaret Atwood.

In Latin Anima means soul but it is also a Jungian expression for the female element of the male. Anima forms the first part of a nameless trilogy of solo concertos, which emphasizes reflective moods....

Ruders writes: There's a solid tradition in the history of Western music of turning the theme of Nicolo Paganini's '24th Caprice' for soloviolin into a set of variations endemic to the time and style...

Paganini Variations - Piano Concerto No. 3 (The original guitar-part arranged for piano and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott by the composer, 2014). Programme note: In 1999 my friend, American guitar virt...

Concerto For Viola And Orchestra by the Danish composer Poul Ruders. Full score. This 28 minute piece was written for Yuri Bashmet, commissioned by Léonie Sonnings Music Foundation and first performed...

Ruders writes: My second concerto for violin and orchestra is a 'reverse' cousin of Polydrama the cello concerto. The former starts out extremely slow and speeds up gradually and the latter progresses...

The full score of Ruders' Solar Triology for large orchestra.

Corona - The Solar Trilogy No. 3 for Orchestra was composed by Poul Ruders in 1995. Programme note: CORONA makes the final part of the SOLAR-TRILOGY, a huge symphonic triptych about the life and behav...

New York is the city which fascinates and inspires Ruders. Time and again he goes back there to work. 'Manhattan Abstraction' (1982) subtitles - a symphonic skyline for large orchestra - was conceived...

Thus Saw St. John is a work for Orchestra which was inspired by Chapter 6 of the Book Of Revelation.

Premiered by The New York Philharmonic, conducted by Lorin Maazel, at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, New York City, 10th June 2004. Orchestration 3 Flutes, 3rd dbl. Piccolo 2 Oboes 1 English Horn...

Symphony No. 5 by Poul Ruders. Commissioned by the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestrafor World Premiere on January 9, 2015.

Programme Note Poul Ruders WIND-DRUMMING WIND-DRUMMING was written in 1979 on a commission from The Danish Percussion Ensemble. The piece is a clash of two kinds of sound-associations; the mystic, exo...