Elena Kats-Chernin: Partituras medio

Gothic horror in music: This chamber choir miniature in 3/4 time, as entertaining as it is creepy, pays homage to Alban Berg's Wozzeck, which is directly quoted with the line 'Ein schöner Mord, ein gu...

The composer wrote her trio for the Haydn celebrations in Eisenstadt in 2009. Inspired by the information that Haydn had wanted the slow movement of his 'Funeral Symphony' No. 44 for his funeral, Kats...

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...

From the preface:'Elena Kats-Chernin has been writing piano music since she was a little girl. In Piano Village, a mixed collection of pieces of up to five minutes, there are works from intermediate l...

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...

Das Stück ist ein Teil des Balletts Wild Swans, das Meryl Tankard 2002 im Opernhaus Sydney auf Grundlage des Märchens Die wilden Schwäne von Hans Christian Andersen choreographiert hat. Ursprünglich m...

This small suite of three solo pieces was written for violist Deborah Lander, a member of the Sydney Alpha Ensemble, which recorded Kats-Chernin's first portrait CD Clocks for ABC Classics in 1997. Th...

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...

Das Stück ist ein Teil des Balletts Wild Swans, das Meryl Tankard 2002 im Opernhaus Sydney auf Grundlage des Märchens Die wilden Schwäne von Hans Christian Andersen choreographiert hat. Ursprünglich m...

Composer's note: 'Originally a song for children about flying in ones dreams, this lyrical piece tries never to touch the ground. The work was used in the Rugby 2003 World Cup opening ceremony in a ve...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Grand Rag is part of a project in which 67 composers each composed a piece for solo musicians of ANAM (Australian National Academy of Music) in 2021. Elena Kats-Chernin wrote her piece in close collab...

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...

Russian Rag is one of Elena Kats-Chernins most famous pieces. It was arranged by her for various instrumentations and was used, among other things, as film music in the clay animation film Mary & Max....

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...

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

Blue Rose is based on two folk melodies which have been freely developed. It uses uneven beats and bars which creates a rocking feeling that is somewhat reminiscent of Balkan music. The title refers t...

Mit fulminanter, kraftvoller Dynamik werden die entstehenden Klangfelder ausgelotet.

Der Titel bezieht sich auf das Material, aus dem moderne Querflöten gefertigt werden. Silver Poetry war ursprünglich Teil einer 12-sätzigen Suite zu Ehren dieses Instruments, geschrieben für die mit d...

Kaum zu glauben, dass diese zarte musikalische Schönheit ursprünglich für die Eröffnungsfeierlichkeiten einer Rugby-Weltmeisterschaft geschrieben wurde ... Mehr noch als in ihren anderen Bearbeitungen...

Composer's Notes:Green Leaf Prelude (February 2004)This is a transcription of one of the pieces from the Wild Swans ballet score. Wild Swans was commissioned by Australian Ballet choreographed by Mery...