Elena Kats-Chernin: Partituras medio

The Eliza Aria from Kats-Chernin's ballet suite Wild Swans owes its popularity to the Lloyds TSB advert which made this aria a worldwide success.Versions are now available for piano solo, flute and pi...

Nach dem Erfolg ihres Klavieralbums Piano Village legt Elena Kats-Chernin jetzt einen neuen Band vor: unsent love letters ist eine Hommage an das exzentrische Genie Erik Satie. In Saties Pariser Wohnu...

Little Piece of Gossip was commissioned by Geoffrey Morris and was created in close communication between composer and guitarist. It explores instrument-specific questions such as: "How do percussive...

The rhapsodic, almost ten-minute piece draws its charm from changing metres and various dramatic climaxes within an overall darkly overcast mood. The 'ballad' of the title develops, after a melancholy...

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...

The 10-minute piece was written in 2006 for the Berlin Philharmonic's education/dance project 'Modern Times', three years after the orchestra had caused a sensation with 'Rhythm Is It!'. Purple Silenc...

The 10-minute piece was written in 2006 for the Berlin Philharmonic's education/dance project 'Modern Times', three years after the orchestra had caused a sensation with 'Rhythm Is It!'. Purple Silenc...

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...

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...

Mezmer for string quartet is an adaptation of the last movement of Re-Collecting ASTORoids, an earlier suite for orchestra from Kats-Chernin. Commissioned by the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra, the suit...

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...

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...

Elena Kats-Chernin wrote Afterwards for the 18th birthday of a young acquaintance, Guy Knopke, who had just started playing the bassoon. The title refers to the new adventures and changes that can lie...

“The notes have space around them in this piece, a little bit like dust over the keys. The title refers to roses delivered to a loved one, they are packed in a box and have a beautiful glow, very tend...

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...

Elena Kats-Chernin has collaborated with writer Joanna Murray-Smith several times, most recently on the TV soap opera The Divorce. A Nostalgic Piece was originally composed as incidental music for the...

Eliza Aria by Elena Kats-Chernin has become a worldwide success. Composed for the fairy-tale ballet Wild Swans choreographed by Maryl Tankard in 2003, it has become internationally known as theme melo...

Composer's note: 'In 2000 I wrote a piece called Sand Waltz for the Canberra Wind Players. In the middle of it I wrote a four-chord progression. When I started working on the ballet Wild Swans (2003)...

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...

While composing Joy in a Minor Key I attempted to achieve a fleeting, light, poetic, almost never 'touching the ground' quality. The piece is written in my favourite form of rondo waltz with a coda,'...

When I came to Sydney from Russia in 1975 with my sister and parents, we took only a few belongings with us, including beautiful hand-embroidered bed linen. It was so valuable that we never used it. O...

'I wrote Naive Waltz in the early 90s for a dance piece called "Zeche 2" in Bochum, Germany. It was one of a few waltzes in that production and the only one to survive the passing of time,' says Elena...

“In 2006 Kylie Kwong who is the ambassador for the Fair Trade Association of Australia and NZ asked me to write a piece for Fair Trade event, she asked for something earthy and poetic and she told me...