Hans Werner Henze used original music by Scarlatti, Handel and Vivaldi to evoke the baroque lifestyle for a TV film of José Montes-Baquer based on the novella Concierto Barocco by the Cuban Alejo Carpentier ; the film music of L'amour à mort by the French master director Alain Resnais was turned into a sonata by Henze. Instrumentation : ensemble

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'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 and harmonies have altered - mainly, in order to accommodate the specific tonal qualities and possibilities of the guitar duet. ' Hans Werner Henze Instrumentation : 2 guitars

Edward Bond hat für das Programmheft der Stuttgarter Uraufführung des Tanzdramas Orpheus am 17. März 1979 anstelle eines Essays eine Anzahl von Gedichten geschrieben, die als Marginalien zu seinem visionären Ballett-Libretto zu verstehen sind. Für den Chorzyklus hat er noch einige weitere Gedichte hinzugefügt. Ich habe aus beiden Materialien eine Auswahl getroffen und sie im Sommer 1983 während eines langen Lehraufenthaltes in Tanglewood, Mass. , in Musik gesetzt, mit Ausnahme von zwei Sätzen, die schon existierten, und von denen 'Epitaph' 1982 in Kindberg, Steiermark, als Teil eines Requiems für den Arbeiterdichter Walter Buchebner durch den ORF-Chor uraufgeführt wurde, während das andere 'Pressed by the weight of... ' durch den Chor der Musikhochschule Köln als Zeil einer von AIDA organisierten Solidaritätskundgebung für die argentinischen desaparecidos aufgeführt wurde. - Hans Werner Henze Instrumentation : mixed choir (SSSAAATTTBBB)

Orpheus Behind the Wire - Poems by Edward Bond. mixed choir (SSSAAATTTBBB). Partition de chœur.

The names in the title of the piece refer to Allegra Mostyn-Owen and Boris Johnson. Allegra Mostyn-Owen is the only daughter of the Italian poetess Gaia Servadio and the historian William Mostyn-Owen. Hans Werner Henze composed this Duetto concertante as a gesture of friendship towards the mother on the occasion of Allegra's marriage to Boris Johnson in 1987. Hans Werner Henze's output is primarily dominated by large-scale, representative musical genres with a richly differentiated instrumental tonal palette : opera and other forms of musical theatre works, ballet, solo concertos and cantatas and also music for large-scale orchestra or chamber ensemble. In contrast, the chamber music works which Henze has composed throughout his entire compositional career right up to the present day have always remained somewhat on the sidelines. Many of these chamber music works had been composed for specific occasions, chiefly to honour figures who had accompanied him on longer or shorter stretches of his journey through life. Instrumentation : violin and viola

Jeder der drei Spieler kann seinen Part auch als Solo spielen ; auch Duos (Viola/Gitarre, Viola/Orgel, Gitarre/Orgel) sind möglich.

Selbst- und Zwiegespräche - Trio für Viola, Gitarre und kleine Orgel (oder ein anderes Tasteninstrument). Partition d'exécution.

Hans Werner Henze has composed several film scores for Volker Schlöndorff's literary adaptations. 'In 1966 I wrote the music of Volker Schlöndorff's first film Der junge Törless. I then thought the sound of the old early instruments that I chose could be understood as a metaphor for the early immature, almost childishly youthful and endangered of the protagonists of Musil's novella. Later I arranged several pieces from the score for string sextet and even made a string orchestra version of it. ' (Hans Werner Henze) Instrumentation : string orchestra

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Ein Orchesterklang zum Dahinschmelzen ! Zum 200. Geburtstag Telemanns im Jahr 1967 instrumentierte Hans Werner Henze ein Quartett des Barockkomponisten neu. Heraus kam die "Telemanniana", eine in vielen Farben schimmernde Orchesterpalette. Telemanns Quartett in e-Moll aus den "Pariser Quartetten" von 1736 für Flöte, Violine, Violoncello und Basso continuo erhält durch eine notengetreue Übertragung auf ein Orchester ein neues Klanggewand und wird schattierungsreicher. Das Stück behält seinen tänzerischen, grazilen und leichten Charakter und lebt zugleich von trunkener Klangsinnlichkeit. Instrumentation : large orchestra

A good means for amateur orchestras to approach New Music ! Henze's enchanting fairytale opera "Pollicino" was written for the school children of the little hiltop vollage, Montpulciano, in Tuscany where he stated his famous summer workshop. It has since been performed all over the world, including two productions in England. Instrumentation : orchestra

È stata una vita inquieta, quella di Hans Werner Henze, fra i più significativi compositori contemporanei e certo fra i più amati. La vita di un uomo posseduto dalla musica, fin dalla più tenera età; di un uomo che non ha mai smesso di ascoltare gli altri, e che agli altri ha fatto dono non solo della propria arte ma anche del proprio inesausto impegno civile, speso nella recisa contestazione di ogni ingiustizia. Fra queste pagine, in cui all'istanza memoriale si mescola incessantemente la riflessione musicale e politica, Henze si racconta con ironia e passione: dall'infanzia insofferente in Vestfalia alle ferite del nazismo, dalla caduta delle Torri Gemelle allo sdegno per le atrocità di Guantánamo, dall'amore mai pago per l'Italia ai lunghi soggiorni nella Cuba degli anni sessanta, in cerca di un paese da chiamare patria. I suoi Canti di viaggio accompagnano così un peregrinare infaticabile che attraversa interi continenti e un intero secolo, il Novecento: e ai luoghi, ai suoni, si accostano i volti: W. H. Auden, Ingeborg Bachmann - « una creatura di pura grazia e fascino, come se fosse nata da un usignolo » -, Luchino Visconti, Elsa Morante, Alberto Moravia, Pier Paolo Pasolini, con la sua « voce di un uomo che vive con grande fatica, sotto pressione, sempre in lotta ». Da ogni incontro prende vita una comunione di intelligenze che porta a una composizione, in uno slancio umano e artistico che non sembra conoscere limiti, se non per superarli ogni volta. Nel novantesimo anniversario dalla nascita di Henze, il Saggiatore porta in libreria un'edizione arricchita e completamente aggiornata di Canti di viaggio, curata da Gastón Fournier-Facio, Michael Kerstan ed Elena Minetti. A Canti di viaggio il compositore ha affidato la sua postrema eredità: nutrito di una scrittura imprevedibile come la sua musica - una scrittura in cui si mescolano lirismo struggente e annotazioni telegrafiche, attenzione icastica al particolare e vaste visioni ideali -, questo memoriale non è solo la testimonianza diretta di uno dei più grandi intellettuali del XX secolo, ma anche, e soprattutto, una sinfonia in prosa capace di modulare tutte le note del sentimento.

Canti di viaggio. Una vita

In this work, I had wanted completely to submit to the traditional rules of the classical symphony so as to mould my musical expression as if in a furnace and enable it to reach the listener as directly and clearly as possible. The first movement is a kind of German dance, an Allemande, so to speak ; the second one a Lied. The third, in strict scherzo-form, is a representation of the sufferings of the German poet Friedrich Hölderlin, in Dr. Autenriedth's mental institution in Tübingen. The last movement is a setting of Hölderlin's poem "Half of Live". - Hans Werner Henze Instrumentation : large orchestra

"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 mankind today ; of sickness and death, of love and loneliness. " Three movements of this extremely demanding and complex work - Rex tremendae, Lacrimosa and Sanctus - have here been skilfully arranged for the organ by the composer Moritz Eggert. This arrangement, which is now often played in churches, places great demands upon the musicians who perform it - but they can always be sure of producing a deep impact with these three Requiem movements. A version for trumpet and piano (ED 8548) is currently in production. Instrumentation : trumpet in C and organ

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 American dance rhythms have been taken from the Opera 'La Cubana', written shortly before, and arranged and combined in a kind of suite. It is an effective, happy work, full of contrasts and allusions to other music. It is suitable for competent ensembles. Instrumentation : brass instruments

Ragtimes & Habaneras - Sinfonia for Brass. brass instruments. Partition.

In this composition of mine, the poetry is treated as though each of its thoughts were a small aria in itself. These arias are framed by short violoncello quartets into which the harp is entwined. Whereas each aria has an autonomous form, the instrumental quintet sections are interrelated - they are variations of one another. - Hans Werner Henze Instrumentation : coloratura soprano, harp and 4 cellos

Being Beauteous - Kantate auf das gleichnamige Gedicht aus "Les Illuminations" von Arthur Rimbaud. coloratura soprano, harp and 4 cellos. Réduction pour piano.

Wie schon mein Oratorium Novae de infinito laudes, ist auch dieses Werk von der Menschenwelt und der Landschaft Roms beeinflusst, ja vielleicht sogar von der im VerhÃ¤ltnis zum Neapolitanischen wesentlich hÃ¤rteren Sprache des RÃ¶mischen. Die ersten vier Noten des Seitenthemas des ersten Satzes, das im 36. Takt zum ersten Mal erklingt, zitieren das kleine Lied "My own my own" aus dem zweiten Akt meiner Oper Elegie fÃ¼r junge Liebende und erscheinen immer wieder in variierter Gestalt, auch im zweiten und dritten Satz.- Hans Werner Henze

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