Nor for all our wild dances in all their wild din
rhymes and ranns rhymes from Finnegans Wake
for voice and piano
First performance of selected songs, Judith Sauer, Ines Schüttengruber, with pupils of the Ludwig von Köchel Musikschule, Salon Krenek Krems 23.11.2024
Three songs, a lament and a prayer
for baritone and piano
after poems of W. H. Auden
Duration: ca. 11 minutes
First performance: Johann Leutgeb, Barbara Rektenwald, Klosterneuburg, June 2022
roundelay
for soprano and piano
after fragments from the middle-English Physiologus ca. 1250
Duration: ca. 7 minutes
First performance Ingrid Haselberger, Barbara Rektenwald,
Villa Wertheimstein, Vienna, September 2019
The Grey Selchie of Sule Skerry
Ballad for mezzo soprano and piano
Duration: ca. 10 minutes
First performance: Ingrid Haselberger, Barbara Rektenwald,
Villa Wertheimstein Vienna, September 2019
sang seven sad springs
Tongue twisters for soprano and piano.
Duration: ca. 8 minutes
1. prize, Classic CD Competition (London GB) 1997
Performances: Elebash Recital Hall, New York, 2001, Alte Schmiede Wien 2001,
Joan Zimmerman; Ingrid Haselberger, Raikasaal Klosterneuburg 2008,
Olga Jelinkova, Eduard Spacil, Zbiroh (Czech Republic), December 2012
Publisher: INOEK Edition
As I went out…
Riddles and epitaphs for mezzo soprano and piano.
Duration: ca. 6 minutes
First performance: Martina Hansen, Robert Crow, Mozarteum Salzburg 1983
Revised version, Felicity Devonshire, Otto Choi, Trunch GB July 2005
Version for soprano and piano (a minor third higher),
First performance: Violetta Kowal, Barbara Rektenwald, Villa Wertheimstein Vienna 2016
Hot sunne, coole fire
Love songs of Robert Herrick, Ben Jonson and George Peele
for mezzo-soprano or tenor and piano
Duration: ca. 7 minutes
First performance Mircea Mihalache, Barbara Rektenwald,
Café Epicur, Klosterneuburg September 2005
The widow of seven rooms: a wake
Mezzo soprano and piano
Duration: ca. 18 minutes
First performance: (Version for voice, harp & piano), first performance, Loré Lixenberg, Zsuzsanna Aba-Nagy, Carol Morgan, Alte Schmiede Vienna, February 2013
Lament on a Ground
After text fragments by August Walla
Duration: ca. 6 minutes
First performance of version for soprano and string orchestra
Ingrid Haselberger, Ensemble Neue Streicher, Raika Saal Klosterneuburg March 2012
The Bourtree
Three medieval lyrics for tenor and piano.
Duration: ca. 6 minutes
First performance: David Zapeda, Nicola Frisardi, Mozarteum Salzburg 1982
Totenklage
Text: Hugo Ball
For mezzo-soprano or baritone and piano
Duration: ca. 6 minutes
Invention and Verse
After a poem by Gerald Manley Hopkins
Duration: ca. 4 minutes
First performance, Invention, Andrew Leach, King’s College Cambridge, 1977
Invention and Verse: Thomas Gleichauf, Marco Basili, Stift Klosterneuburg, November 2005
Zehn Russische Kinderreime
For voice and piano.
Duration: ca. 10 minutes
First performance: Festival AdeVantegarde Munich, 1993 Publisher: Verlag Neue Musik, Berlin
Kleine Nachtgesänge
after Russian children’s rhymes, for soprano and piano
Duration: ca. 8 minutes
First performance: Barbara Rektenwald, ensemble fEinklang Klosterneuburg 2016
The passing bell
for soprano and piano
Duration: ca. 7’ 30’’
First performance Alexandra Lampert-Raschké, Andrés Anazco,
Roter Salon, Vienna November 2019 Publisher: INOEK Edition
When the bird began to sing
For soprano and piano
Duration: ca. 2 minutes
First performance Martina Hansen, Robert Crow, Salzburg 1983