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The Secret of Secrets
For Recorder Orchestra SnSATTBBGK 28 pages score and 9 parts 39,90€ "Umonde, 12 Circle Songs for solo recorder and loop station" was my most successful edition during the lockdown. By popular demand, I have now arranged five of the pieces for recorder orchestra and tried them out at numerous workshops this year - they are simply great fun to rehearse, conduct and listen to! The collection...
Vitambo vya moyo. African Suite No.4. For Recorder Quintet ATTBG.
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 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
19,90 Euro
Njagala Nnyimba for Flute Quintet
African Suite No. 17 For Flute Quintet: One Piccolo Flute, three C-Flutes, one Alto Flute. Score and 5 Parts 1. Satz: Jangu wano (Come here!) 2. Satz: Ekibuzo (The Question) 3. Satz: Myel me yom cwinyi (Dance of Joy) Njagala Nnyimba in Luganda (one of the 40 languages spoken in Uganda) means I love music and the people of Uganda really do love music! Nowhere in Black Africa have I found a more...
Zweiter Satz: Ekibuzo (The Question)
Third Movement: Myel me yom cwinyi (Dance of Joy)
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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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19,90 Euro
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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Imibala yenjabulo. African Suite No. 18
(The Colours of Happiness) For Recorder and Piano First Movement: Desired Departure (Alto and Piano) Second Movement: Illuminated Inside. (Alto and Piano) Third Movement: Infinite Fountain (Soprano and Piano) Fourth Movement: Splendid Surprise (Soprano and Piano) Score and Solo Part. Imibala yenjabulo in Xhosa means The Colours of Happiness. I wrote this suite for the famous recorder player Meng...
First movement: Desired Departure
Second movement: Illuminated inside
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Biography

Sören Sieg (*1966) learned to play the recorder, violin and piano as a child and later the saxophone, trumpet, guitar and drums. He studied Sociology, Politics and Music in Hamburg and Bielefeld. He toured with his a cappella group LaLeLu for 18 years throughout Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Since 2012 he has lived as a composer and author in Hamburg. He has published ten books and numerous works for classical ensembles that are played all around the world. read more »