Poul Ruders

Full score for this work for Guitar and Small Ensemble. Ruders writes: The word has its origin in ancient Greek: Psalmoidia i. e. 'singing to the harp', and we find the word again in Psalter, derived...

Programme NoteThe name Event Horizon was coined by the brilliant British physicist Stephen Hawking to describe the circumference of a so-called 'black hole', the remains of a collapsed star with a gra...

The 'Dante-Sonata' was composed in 1970, inspired by two quotations from Dante's 'La Divina Comedia', Inferno, each in its turn forming the program of the two movements. Movement 1: Wandering through...

Work dating from 1982.

Poul Ruders's Star Prelude And Love Fugue is a work for Piano dating from 1990.

Poul Ruders ' collection of short solo pieces entitled 13 Postludes For Piano was written in 1989 for the Danish pianist Amalie Malling, right on the heels of the composer's first symphony 'Himmelhoch...

Piano solo part for Paganini Variations - Piano Concerto No. 3 by Poul Ruders (2014). Score available: WH32201 Programme note: In 1999 my friend, American guitar virtuoso David Starobin, wanted me to...

Shifts - Piano Study No. 3 was composed by Poul Ruders in 2014. Dedicated Bo Reipurth.

Soprano, Clarinet and String Quartet When looking for an interpretation on the internet of Edgar Allan Poe's DREAMLAND, it turns out that there are as many interpretations as there are interpreters. S...

Cembal d'Amore - Second Book - a suite for Piano and Harpsichord by Poul Ruders (2006-2007). Commissioned by and dedicated to Speculum Musicae New York City. Premiered by Steven Beck, harpsichord and...

Break-Dance is an obvious next of kin to the two Clarinet trios Vox In Rama and Tattoo For Three. This piece, however, combines the roaring despair of the first trio with the twisted rhythmical displa...

Break-Dance is an obvious next of kin to the two Clarinet trios Vox In Rama and Tattoo For Three. This piece, however, combines the roaring despair of the first trio with the twisted rhythmical displa...

The Trio 'Vox in Rama' for clarinet, amplified violin and piano was commissioned by The Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 1983.

Dramaphonia' for piano solo and 11 instruments forms the first part of a trilogy of solo-concertos, the remaining two being one for percussion and smaller symphony orchestra ('Monodrama') and the last...

This piece has a broad, moderately paced first movement which leads to a sparkling scherzo, which in turn gives way to an extremely sparsely textured movement that features the horn and its less frequ...

Hojt Pa En Gren En Krage by Poul Ruders (1997) for Childrens Choir, Mixed Choir SATB, Soprano Saxophone and Piano.

Work for Percussion and Two Pianos dating from 1990.

Concertino was composed by Danish composer Poul Ruders in 2008. Concertino has been written for Bass Trombone solo and ensemble.

For Organ. Commissioned by The 12th Carl Nielsen International Organ Competition, Odense, 2011. With support from The Danish Arts Foundation.

Poul Ruders MONODRAMA MONODRAMA, dedicated to percussion virtuoso Gert S°rensen and commissioned by The Danish Radio, was written in New York in the early winter 1988 and makes the centre as well as t...

Ruders writes: NIGHTSHADE is an instrumental dark-room, a grave-yard of low-pitched, tight-knitted, crawling chords sliced asunder by the cold extremely high positioned movements of the oboe and violi...