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African Christmas.
For recorder quintet ATTBG 1. And she expected a child 2. Where shall we go? 3. Fear not! 4. Singing him to sleep 5. The three Magi I have to admit: I love christmas. Although I am an atheist I always felt a deep connection to this feast: The couple looking for a home; the newborn child; the angel’s soothing words FEAR NOT; the wonderful surrealistic three magi with their presents. In my view...
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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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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Cádiz
Suite for Recorder and Guitar. 1. The Flight of the Seagull 2. The Wind from the Sea 3. Alone at the Shore 4. The Bath of the Mermaid 5. Carnaval de Cádiz Cádiz is located in Andalusia, on the southern Spanish Atlantic coast. It was founded by Phoenician seafarers around 1100 BC, making it the oldest continuously inhabited city in Western Europe. Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Arabs, and...
First movement: The Flight of the Seagull
Second movement: The Wind from the Sea
Fourth movement: The Bath of the Mermaid
Fifth Movement: Carnaval de Cádiz
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Umlanjana
In 2013 Elisabeth Richers-Byrne from Dublin asked me to write a duet for her pupils Frankie and Ciara for Jugend Musiziert. I did so (it is duet No.9) - and immediately wanted to write more. I was bubbling over with ideas - and very quickly finished 20 pieces. I tried to produce a great variety: From easy to difficult, from fast to slow, from joyful to sad, from high flutes to low flutes. They...
Duet No. 9: Umlanjana
Duet No. 17: The Great Longing
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UXOLO
For Recorder Orchestra SnSATTBGK Score and nine parts This is probably the easiest piece I ever wrote for Recorder Orchestra - because I wrote it in 2019 for the 5th Anniversary of the Itzehoer Recorder Day. For five years, 70 to 100 recorder amateurs have come together every year to play together. UXOLO in Xhosa means forgiveness. For me, forgiveness is one of the most important, comforting,...
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La Joie
Suite for two Guitars. In 1995 I was studying music at the Academy of Music in Hamburg and I fell in love with a fellow student named Angela. She played the guitar and had a guitar duo, so – what was a composer to do? – I wrote a suite for her guitar duo, LA JOIE (Joy). It was, as you can easily hear, inspired by my love for Ravel, Débussy, and Roussel, but the fundamental reason for this work...
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Consolation
Five Easy Pieces for Recorder Orchestra SAATTBBGK Score and nine Parts Since I started to give workshops on my African Recorder Music, I re-arranged some of my trios, quartets, and quintets for a bigger ensemble and simplified them thereby. This collection contains my five favorite arrangements of the last four years.   The Salutation in Djaboué is the opening movement of my very first African...
Consolation
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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 »