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African Suite No. 16. For Recorder Quartet. Score and Four Parts. Instrumentation: First and Third movement: ATTB Second Movement: TBGK In 2010 I wrote the song “Tell Me, What is Happiness?” for the 10th show of my a cappella group LaLeLu. From the very beginning I wanted to use the melody as a theme for my new African suite for recorders. Five years later I put this idea into realisation, but...

First movement: Tell me what happiness is

Second movement: The Big Sorrow

Third movement: Start to fly

LaLeLu: Sag mir, was Glück ist (Tell me, what is happiness?)

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Vitambo vya moyo. African Suite No. 4. For Recorder Quintet ATTBB

Score and Five Parts. First Movement: Kinokero Second Movement: Kinyongo Third Movement: Jamboree Anyone who has ever heard records by Dumisani Maraire or Abdullah Ibrahim knows that no other music can convey pure happiness like black African music. This pure happiness is also the subject of this fourth African suite. The special feature of this music is that it both describes the feeling of...

First Movement: Kinokero

Second Movement: Kinyongo

Third Movement: Jamboree

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Vitambo vya moyo. African Suite No.4. For Recorder Quintet ATTBG.

First Movement: Kinokero

Second Movement: Kinyongo

Third Movement: Jamboree

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Vitambo vya moyo. African Suite No. 4. For Recorder Quartet ATTB

This is the version of Vitambo via moyo for recorder quartet ATTB. Score and Four Parts.

First movement: Kinokero

Second movement: Kinyongo

Third movement: Jamboree

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Wakati njema

African Suite No. 15 For Recorder Quartet SATB First Movement: Usiogope (Don't be afraid) Second Movement: Siku siyo mbali (The Day is not far) Third Movement: 3. Satz: Hivyo ndivyo (That's it!) Score and Four Parts Wakati njema in Kisuaheli means The Best Moment. I chose this title according to the African proverb: "The best moment to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best moment is now...

First Movement: Usiogope (Don't be afraid)

Second Movement: Siku siyo mbali (The day is not far)

Third Movement: Hivyo ndivyo (That's it!)

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Ixesha. African Suite No. 20

For Recorder Quartet. First movement: Circle Dance (ATBG) Second movement: Sad Song (TBBG) Third movement: Consolation (ATBG) Fourth movement: Simple Solution (ATBG) Ixesha in Xhosa means time, and this refers to the African Proverb: "The Europeans have the clock, the Africans have the time." I tried to capture this different, floating, African feeling of time in this work. All four movements are...

First movement: Circle Dance

Second movement: Sad Song

Third movement: Consolation

Fourth movement: Simple Solution

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Suite grotèsque

For Recorder Trio ATB / TBB / AAT I wrote Suite grotèsque in 1996 for the Flutes ensemble, which premiered the piece in Hamburg on 25/5/1997. The first movement, Tokatokatta, is an impelling toccata for recorders, essentially 100 variations to the rhythm introduced in the first two bars, and which is thus not easy to forget. During the piece, the harmony changes from a cool, modal quartal harmony...

First movement: Tokatokatta

Second Movement: Valse triste

Third movement: The Snow Queen

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16 Variations on a Russian Birthday Song

For Recorder Quintet ATTBK Score and five Parts I have always been a fan of variations because this form allows me as a composer to combine the strongest formal unity with the sharpest emotional contrasts. My first bigger composition were the 12 Variations on Von fremden Ländern und Menschen for piano solo (1988). 2014 I wrote the 16 Variations on an Irish Jig and 2015 the 12 Variations on an Old...

Premiere of the abbreviated version at the Tokyo Recorder Festival

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Suite Siciliano

For Recorder, Viola da gamba, and Harpsichord Score and three parts First movement: Dance with Lumière Second movement: Silver linings Third movement: Running through the fields I have known Gritli Kohler-Nyvall for more than a decade now; her Ensemble Pipelife commissioned two of my works, the African Suite No. 4 Vitambo vya moyo and the 16 Variations on an Irish Jig, and recorded both...

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