Hans Werner Henze: Partituras dificil

Hans Werner Henze's An Den Wind for SATB choir and instruments. Full score. This piece incorporates text by Christian Lehnert.

'The movements in this suite were origi-nally taken from my animal opera The English Cat but have undergone a series of mutations in the process of adaptation, their shape has changed and the melody a...

My idea of developing music from Richard of Gloucester's monologue 'Now is the winter of our discontent', and of generating more music from that material, was conceived during the 1960s. Ten years lat...

Fünf Jahre nach der ersten habe ich mich angeschickt, eine zweite Sonate für die von mir geliebte Gitarre zu schreiben. Und nicht nur um den Gesamttitel des Zyklus' (der hiermit geschlossen ist) beibe...

The Ragtimes & Habaneras were commissioned by the Grimethorpe Colliery Band, one of the most famous Brass Bands in Great Britain. Individual scenes and short pieces of incidental music in typical Amer...

The Drei Sonette (Three Sonnets) were among the last works of Germany's leading post-war composer, Hans Werner Henze (1926 - 2012), settings of words by theologian and poet Christian Lehnert (b. 1926)...

These nine instrumental pieces speak of the anxiety and distress of mankind in our time, of sickness and death, of love and of loneliness. Henze is concerned with questions of existential significance...

Requiem, 9 sacred concertos for piano solo, trumpet and large chamber orchestra' is the title of the original work of which Henze said: 'These nine instrumental pieces speak of the fears and needs of...

From his opera 'Venus and Adonis', which draws on classical mythology, Hans Werner Henze has taken four movements already described there as 'madrigals' and arranged them for a cappella performance. T...

Gitarre allein ('Tentos') und für Singstimme und Gitarre ('Fragmente')

Gitarre allein ('Tentos') und für Singstimme und Gitarre ('Fragmente')

My idea of developing music from Richard of Gloucester's monologue 'Now is the winter of our discontent', and of generating more music from that material, was conceived during the 1960s. Ten years lat...