Musik unserer Zeit

In October of 1997, I received an invitation from New York Philharmonic Music Director Kurt Masur asking me to contribute a musical message for the coming millennium. Maestro Masur's letter read 'My d...

To celebrate the 80th birthday of this respected Czech-American composer, Schott is publishing this study score of one of his many orchestral works. Husa, born in Prag, won a scholarship to study with...

Bei der Neuschrift des Stücks im Winter 1995-96, fünfzig Jahre nach seiner Entstehung (als Bühnenmusik zu Molières Comédie ballet Georges Dandin, aus der anschließend ein Ballett wurde mit dem englisc...

A special tribute is paid to the great musician Rostropovich with 'bells ringing out in celebration', as indicated in the subtitle to the score, and with the fact that in the bombastic final section o...

Symphony No. 6 was created in the late 1960s, and was first performed in Havana on 26. November 1969 by the Cuban National Orchestra under my direction. This symphony reflects not only the excited atm...

Ich wandere durch diesen alten Ort, einsam, einem Geiste gleich. Die letzten Worte des Gedichts 'Noche de verano' ('Sommernacht') von Antonio Machado geben die unheimliche Atmosphäre wieder, die Luigi...

The work is based on a tune called The Nag written by the jazz guitarist/composer John Scofield, of whom I have long been a fan and with whom I worked closely when writing Blood on the Floor (Mark-Ant...

No. 37b is a suite of four short pieces for orchestra. Like many of the composer's works the subject matter revolves around death and after life. Featuring some of the composer's most chaotic and fren...

Maxwell Davies' 'Das Rauschende der Farbe' (The Sound of Colour) is a reflection on the life and work of the German artist Paula Modersohn-Becker who died aged 31 in 1907. Maxwell Davies first got to...