some of my interpretations of classical and contemporary music from other composers

Violinist

some of my own works for chamber music, solo, orchestra....
if you want to purchase scores of my pieces for performance, please contact me via www.renehirschfeld.de

Composer

some of my  own tangos and some of my interpretations of pieces from Astor Piazzolla 

Tango

sonata for violin and guitar played by the composer C. René Hirschfeld (violin) and German guitar player Sebastian Albert
entire CD on Ragaprong, Amazon and digital on https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/sonaten-meditationen/id442826836

Sonata for violin and guitar

"Vokalise" für Vokalsextett - Auftragswerk des Mitteldeutschen Rundfunks. Aufnahme mit Mitgliedern des mdr - Rundfunkchores

Vokalise

Waldgesang - Concerto for oboe, strings and percussion; live performance of Celine Moinet (oboe) and the Elbland Philharmonie Sachsen, conductor Ekkehard Klemm. sheet music: www.verlag-neue-musik.de

Waldgesang

Waldgesang - concerto for oboe, strings and percussion

...in einem Licht - 3 sacred songs for choir after poetry by Hammerskjöld, Silesius, Korvin Reich und H. von Bingen.
live concert recording at Gesellschaftshaus Magdeburg
ensemble vocal modern, conductor: Christfried Brödel
Picture: Painting from Korvin Reich
Lyrics:
I.
Verblassender Buchen Licht / vor Wolkens Dunkel./ Wind reibt des Waldtümpels/
Wasser stahlgrau./ Zwischen der Erde Blutspur dort / läuft die Hirschfährte./
Die Stille bricht durch /des Herzens Panzer, / lässt es nackt vor des / Herbstes Klarheit. (Dag Hammarskjöld, Übersetzung: C. R. Hirschfeld)
Wie der Ton / einer Glocke / sich verliert / steigt / inmitten / der Gedanken/ die Sonne / des Erwachens. (Korvin Reich)
II.
Gott wohnt in einem Licht, / zu dem die Bahn gebricht. / Wer es nicht selber wird, / der sieht es ewig nicht. / Ich selbst muss Sonne sein, / ich muss mit meinen Strahlen / das farbenlose Meer / der ganzen Gottheit malen. (Angelus Silesius)
III.
Von der Tiefe bis hoch zu den Sternen durchflutet Liebe das All. (Hildegard von Bingen)
Jeden Moment / Auge in Auge / mit dieser Liebe, / die alles sieht, / doch nachsieht / in Geduld, / die das Recht ist / doch nicht richtet, / wenn unser Blick / spiegelt den ihren / in Demut. (Dag Hammarskjöld, Übersetzung: C. R. Hirschfeld)

...in einem Licht

Musik für Klarinette und Akkordeon, played live in concert by Clarissa Schmitt and Marius Staible.
3 movements:
Präludium
Versuch, eine Fata Morgana zu vermessen
Nachklang

Musik für Klarinette und Akkordeon

Musik für Streichtrio by C. René Hirschfeld, played by
Alwyn Tomas Westbrook - violin, Emily Yabe - viola, Nadezhda Krasnovid - violoncello
live concert recording, Mai 2022

Musik für Streichtrio (Music for string trio)

Sonata for violin solo no. I, live concert recording

Sonata for violin solo I

please use headphones or at least good stereo boxes/positions to listen!
Enjoy!

Mantra op.158

"Bells' Bells" for four-handed piano (after "The Bells" by William Byrd, whose 400th anniversary of death we remember in 2023), played live in concert by Darya Dadykina and Vitalii Kyanytsiy.

Bells' Bells

Hirschfeld: Toccata for piano solo, played by the composer

This is the recording of the world premiere of my piano concerto "NACHT.WACHEN.". It was played in the Technikmuseum Hugo Junkers in Dessau, Germany, on July 14th 2025 by pianist Joshua Rupley and the Kyiv Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Francesco Cagnasso.
The work has 5 movements:
I. serale, II. fremente, eccitato, III. lamentoso, IV. adagio rubato, quasi recitando, V. luminoso, ampio

NACHT.WACHEN. - concerto for piano and orchestra

sonata for violin and guitar played by the composer C. René Hirschfeld (violin) and German guitar player Sebastian Albert

Sonata for violin and guitar, IV Rondo

Sonata for violin and guitar, III Aria

Sonata for violin and guitar, II Fuga

Sonata for violin and guitar, I Preludio

"shadows of the night" (orig. Schatten der Nacht) for saxophon quartet, played by Leipziger Saxophonquartett, live concert recording. Sheet music available at Hofmeister Musikverlag www.hofmeister-musikverlag.com
http://www.hofmeister-musikverlag.com/autoren/g-h/h/hirschfeld-caspar-rene-1965/schatten-der-nacht-shadowas-of-the-night.html

Shadow of the Night (Schatten der Nacht)

solitude pour violon solo solo, played by the composer
sheet music available at www.verlag-neue-musik.de
www.verlag-neue-musik.de/verlag/product_info.php?info=p612_solitude-pour-violon-solo.html
CD available at www.ragaprong.de or www.hirschfeld-music.com or iTunes

Solitude pour violon solo

Tango de Salon, played by the composer C. René Hirschfeld (violin) and Fabian Klentzke (pno.) live at Wabe Berlin 2011
sheet music available at www.hofmeister-musikverlag.com
http://www.hofmeister-musikverlag.com/autoren/g-h/h/hirschfeld-caspar-rene-1965/tangos-milongas-vol-2.html
info: www.renehirschfeld.de/LiberTango.html
more tango scores at http://neuemusiknoten.de/Tango.html (free downloads)

Tango de Salon

3 Sätze für Viola solo (3 Movements for viola solo) from C. René Hirschfeld (composed in 2012):
espressivo - molto vivo - tranquillo
played by the composer himself

3 Movements for viola solo

Haiku III for oboe solo, played by Bernhard Forster
sheet music available at Edition Befoco Germany www.befoco.de


Haiku III for oboe solo

Heinrich Ignatz Franz von Biber's famous "Passagalia" for violin solo from the "Mystery Sonatas" , 
played by C. René Hirschfeld
CD available at Ragaprong www.ragaprong.de
nb: nowadays we mostly know the spelling "passacaglia" but Biber him self wrote "Passagalia" on his score.

Biber: Passacaglia

Por Qué - one of my Tangos for violin and piano, played by myself (violine) and Fabian Klentzke  (piano) live in concert in Berlin. Sheet music to this piece can be downloaded  at www.neuemusiknoten.de/Tango.html


whole album on iTunes

Por Que

El Anhelo - this is a tango-vals composed by C. René Hirschfeld an played by the composer(violin) and Fabian Klentzke (piano) live in concert in Berlin. Sheet music can be downloaded at www.neuemusiknoten.de/Tango.html

buy album on iTunes

El Anhelo

"Livsfrisen" is a work in 5 parts for piano solo from C. René Hirschfeld after poetry from the Norwegean painter Edvard Munch.
First part: Loneliness
Piano: Werner Barho
sheet music download: http://www.neuemusiknoten.de/Soli.html
album download: https://www.amazon.de/Frieze-Life-Werner-Barho-Hirschfeld/dp/B0075B4AHG/ref=sr_1_23?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=Hirschfeld&qid=1568740533&s=dmusic&sr=1-23

Lebensfries (nach Munch) für Klavier - Teil 1

"Livsfrisen" is a work in 5 parts for piano solo from C. René Hirschfeld after poetry from the Norwegean painter Edvard Munch.
Second part: Fear
Piano: Werner Barho
sheet music download: http://www.neuemusiknoten.de/Soli.html
album download: https://www.amazon.de/Frieze-Life-Werner-Barho-Hirschfeld/dp/B0075B4AHG/ref=sr_1_23?__mk_de_DE=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91&keywords=Hirschfeld&qid=1568740533&s=dmusic&sr=1-23

Lebensfries (nach Munch) für Klavier - Teil 2

variations on the swedish folk tune "näckens polska" for violin, composed and played by C. René Hirschfeld
(painting by Ernst Josephson)

Tanz des Nöck (Dance of the water spirit)

C. René Hirschfeld: composer.
I am writing contemporary music (chamber music , symphonic, vocal music, electronic, ballet and opera). I live as a freelance in the beautyfull little city Wernigerode in the middle of Germany.

C. René Hirschfeld

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