Nor for all our wild dances in all their wild din
a ballad after children’s rhymes from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake
for soprano and piano, with children’s voice(s) ad lib
Duration: ca. 12 minutes
First performance: 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