May song (2022)
six voices and prerecorded audio
Performed by Exaudi, at Exposure 2023, Milton Court, 22 May 23

Cressida Sharp, sop.
Jessica Gillingwater, mez-sop.
Tom Williams, counterten.
David de Winter, ten.
Michael Hickman, bari.
Simon Whiteley, bass

James Weeks, cond.

Text by Goethe (1771), trans. Lisa Jeschke & Lucy Beynon (in Jeschke, Anthology of Poems by Drunk Women, Materials, 2018 http://material-s.blogspot.com/2020/10/lisa-jeschke-anthology-of-poems-by.html.)

How beautiful shines 
To me, the nature! 
How the sun glows! 
How the mead smiles!

Blossoms penetrate 
From each branch 
And a thousand voices 
Out of the shrubbery

And joy, and joy 
From each breast. 
O earth, o sun,
O joy o lust!

O love, o love!
As golden, as beautiful 
As the morning clouds 
On those heights

You bless gloriously 
The fresh field
The blossoms’ steam 
The bountiful world.

O girl, girl
How I love you! 
Your eyes gaze! 
How you love me!

This is the way the lark loves 
Song and air
And morning flowers
The smell of heaven

How much I love you, 
My blood warmed
By you, for me, a youth, 
And joy and courage

For new songs
And dances
May you be happy eternally 
As long as you love me.

Prerecorded sounds include two field recordings of a wind turbine in Bernau bei Berlin, recorded by Peter Cusack, 2021.

Art: Unknown photographer, WT-Energiesystems Albertshof wind turbines, Bernau bei Berlin, c. 2020

Thanks to James Weeks and Exaudi, and to Paolo Carlotto and Nick Moroz for audio engineering assistance.

May song

Christoph Baumgarten - Streichquartett I

Salomé Guimbretière (clarinet), Alejandro Fenollosa Beltrán (Saxophone), Anna Grenzner (cello), Lucie Spedicato (harp)
members of Ensemble Ascolta:
Markus Schwind (trumpet), Julian Belli (percussion), Hubert Steiner (guitar), Florian Hölscher (piano)

Silent Echoes (2023)

Livemitschnitt UA am 21.03.2023 Video Oleg Michajlov

Ensembletrilogie

Newski Ensembletrilogie III - Memory (2023)

Taula

For 13 performers.
Originally written for musicians of Lübecker Philharmonisches Orchester.
Dedicated to Alexei Navalny.

First performance: 07.07.2024, Lübecker Dom

Conductor — Carlos Johnson
Performers:
Waldo Ceunen, Flöte I
Viola Hegge, Flöte II
Masao Fukuda, Oboe
Vera Fliegauf, Fagott
Iñaki Urquizo, Horn I
Johannes Pagel, Horn II
Matthias Krebber, Trompete I
Lukas Paulenz, Trompete II
Natalia Abryutina, Cembalo
Isabel Jiminez, Violine
Beth Fricker, Viola
Sigrid Strehler, Cello
Dagmar Labusch, Kontrabass

i wish it wasn't you

Domi Res Militaris (2024) for Orchestra, Basel Sinfonietta, Titus Engel, Warsaw Autumn 2024, Recorded by Polskie Radio 22.09.2024

Domi Res Militaris

Direct music 67 Katya Falkovich (Suonata venexiana)

UNDER NEONLIGHT I (1980)

Live aus Philhamronie Köln, Acht Brücken
SWR-Symphonieorchester Teodor Currentzis

18 Episodes for Orchestra and Tape (2019)

Ensemble #1:
Сlarinet (+Alto recorder)
Electric Guitar
Piano
Violin

Ensemble #2:
Alto flute
Cymbals
Bass Guitar
Viola
Cello

Newski Ensembletrilogie III - Memory (2023)

Sergej Newski