Love, loneliness, and human finiteness: Eternal themes permeate the sixteen songs of Robert Schumann’s famous Dichterliebe, based on poems by Heinrich Heine, in a seemingly harmless folk song tone. These songs are the sonic imaginings of a torn soul. An enigmatic soul that sings of a love we don’t know whether it is dreamed or …
Author archives: Uli Bader
Eismeer
Eismeer – Sea of Ice Concerto for saxophone quartet, vibraphone and orchestra Concertante poem in three movements based on the painting ‘The Sea of Ice’ by Caspar David Friedrich for saxophone quartet, vibraphone and strings Commissioned by the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival and the University and Hanseatic City of Greifswald on the occasion of the Caspar David …
Lontano doloroso
Lontano doloroso Concerto for English Horn and Orchestra Commissioned by Symphonie Orchester Biel/Solothurn and Bochumer Symphoniker „Over the course of a life as a composer, the compositional ideal “less is more“ resurfaces intermittently. Some works are not at all interested in this maxim and others are magically attracted by the concept of paring down to …