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Work
    Back to overview 		Flea Walls (2010)

  Chamber music - Quartets
(suiteable for church)

  for recorder quartet
work list NW-192-10

completed 05/21/2010

instruments 1. soprano/soprano rec.
2. soprano/alto rec.
3. soprano/great bass rec.
4. soprano/ sub bass rec.

duration 3'

world premiere 06/27/2010
QNG (Quartet New Generation)
New York, NY (USA), Bang on a Can Marathon 2010, Winter Garden, Financial Centre

special based on "chopsticks"

dedicated QNG

publication http://www.sikorski.de

   
Work
    Back to overview 		Processional: Evocation/Accord (2009)

  Chamber music - Quartets
(suiteable for church)

  for brass quartet
work list 137v/aa-NW-09

completed 19/06/2009

movements 1. Evocation
2. Accord


instruments bass trumpet, tenor trombone, bass trombone, bass tuba

duration 9'

world premiere 07/25/2009
Bregenz (Austria), opening "Musik aus der Zeit" (Bregenzer Festspiele)

special Can be performed alone or as part of the larger work "Processional"

publication http://www.sikorski.de

see also Processional
Breaking The Waves (Open Air Performance)
   
Work
    Back to overview 		Haemmerklavier II: Upon the first 4 notes of "Lulu" (2006)

  Chamber music - Quartets

  for quartet
work list 48b-06-NW

completed 02/28/2006

instruments alto/bass recorder, bass/great bass recorder, bass clarinet, percussion (vibraphone/glockenspiel)

duration 6'

world premiere 03/01/2006

dedicated for the Abash Ensemble

see also Haemmerklavier II
   
Work
    Back to overview 		Iron Curtain (2004)

  Chamber music - Quartets

  for percussion quartet
work list 144-04-HW

completed 06/27/2004

duration 16'

world premiere 10/02/2004
Perkussionsensemble Freiburg
Dresden (Germany), Hellerau, Dresdner Tage für Zeitgenössische Muksik

special „situational“ composition, movements of musicians, compact instrumentation

dedicated Bernhard Wulff, Perkussionsensemble Freiburg

publication http://www.sikorski.de

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Work
    Back to overview 		Symphony 2.0, version for any 4 instruments (without Kazoo) (2003)
2nd version

  Chamber music - Quartets

  for any 4 instruments
work list 121a-03-HW

completed 12/29/2003

instruments ad libitum

duration 7'

world premiere 0

special general effect descriptions

see also Symphony 2.0
   
Work
    Back to overview 		Processional: Cryptic Chorale II (2003)

  Chamber music - Quartets

  for brass quartet
work list 137o-03-HW

completed 04/17/2003

instruments 2 trombones, bass trumpet, tuba

duration 2'

world premiere 06/19/2003
Mnozil Brass
Graz (Austria), Styriarte, opening concert

special Can be performed alone or as part of the large work PROCESSIONAL

publication www.sikorski.de

see also Processional
   
Work
    Back to overview 		Processional: Cryptic Chorale I (2003)

  Chamber music - Quartets

  for brass quartet
work list 137m-03-HW

completed 04/14/2003

instruments 2 trombones, bass trumpet, tuba

duration 1' 30''

world premiere 06/19/2003
Mnozil Brass
Graz (Austria), Styriarte, opening concert

special can be performed alone or as part of the large work PROCESSIONAL

publication www.sikorski.de

see also Processional
   
Work
    Back to overview 		Symphony 2.0 (2002)
original version

  Chamber music - Quartets

  for 4 kazoos, solo, doubled or in combination with any instrument
work list 121-01-NW

completed 12/19/2001

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instruments 4 kazoos solo, doubled, or in combination with any instrument

duration 7'

world premiere 01/13/2002
Stefan Eblenkamp, Markus Verna, Anno Kesting (vibraphone/Kazoo), Moritz Eggert (Kazoo/conductor)
Nuremberg (Germany), Neues Museum, Vortragssaal

special blowing into water glasses at one point

publication http://wwww.sikorski.de

texts symphony 2.0, short english text about the piece

Symphony 2.0
For any 4 instruments


This piece is part of my ongoing series of „Domestic Symphonies“, the first (“Symphony 1.0”) is a concerto for 12 typewriters, and the third (“Symphony 3.0”) a piece for 6 ship, car or bicycle horns.
“Symphony 2.0” consists of t... [more]

[ 18.10.2004 ]
see also Symphony 2.0, version for any 4 instruments (without Kazoo)
   
Work
    Back to overview 		Et in Arcadia Ego (1997)
Streichquartett Nr. 2

  Chamber music - Quartets
also look at Ensembles

  for string quartet
work list 72-97-HW

completed 05/14/1997

instruments string quartet

duration 16'

world premiere 07/19/1997
Farandole-quartet
Pescocostanzo (Italy), "Moto Perpetuo"-Festival, Auditorium Comunale S. Nicola

special re-tuning, knocking sounds (both at the end of the piece)

dedicated Peter Ruzicka

soundcarrier Et in Arcadia Ego
publication www.sikorski.de

texts

... "und in Arkadien ich" ist ein Satz der einem oft beim Studium von Renaissance-Gemälden ins Auge fällt. In der symbolgeladenen Kunstsprache dieser Epoche wurde dieser Satz als eine Art "memento mori" gebraucht, also "auch in Arkadien existiere ich (der Tod)". Eine der berühmtesten ... [more]

[ 05.07.1997 (dt. Übersetzung 02.02.1999) ]
Et in Arcadia Ego short english text

Et in Arcadia Ego
...“and in Arcadia I“ is a sentence which has fascinated scholars for a long time. In renaissance symbolism it is supposed to mean „and also in Arcadia, death exists“, a sort of „memento mori“. It famously appears on a picture by the french painter Nicolas Poussin, „The shep... [more]

[ 21.10.2003 ]
see also now - I need now
   
Work
    Back to overview 		Little Hideaways (1993)
string quartet no. 1

  Chamber music - Quartets

  for string quartet
work list 39-93-HW

completed 01/20/1993

movements 1. There...
2. ...and back again
3. in
4. inside
5. emerging
6. away
7. out


instruments string quartet

duration 17'

world premiere 07/08/1993
Rosamunde quartet
Munich (Germany), Akademie der Wissenschaften

special advanced playing techniques (playing behind the fingers) in first and second movement

soundcarrier Concours Molinari 2001-2002
publication http://www.sikorski.de

texts

Alle 7 Abschnitte dieses Stücks (die ohne Pause ineinander übergehen) basieren auf einer einzigen melodischen Linie, zu hören in den ersten zwei Takten.
Alle musikalischen Parameter - Form, Tonhöhen, Rhythmus, etc. - beziehen sich auf die eine oder andere Weise auf diese M... [more]

[ 24.02.1994 (rev. 02.10.1998) ]
Little Hideaways, english text

LITTLE HIDEAWAYS


I have always been fascinated by the famous sentence at the beginning of William Blake’s „Auguries of innocence“: To see a world in a grain of sand.
This is – in my mind - connected to another motto, which has also been of utmost importance for my work:... [more]

[ 05.03.2004 ]
Little Hideaways, same text but shortened

LITTLE HIDEAWAYS


I have always been fascinated by the famous sentence at the beginning of William Blake’s „Auguries of innocence“: To see a world in a grain of sand.
This is – in my mind - connected to another motto, which has also been of utmost importance for my work:... [more]

[ 15.03.2004 ]
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excerpt from the piece, played by the Molinari quartet
   
Work
    Back to overview 		Totem
string quartet "0"

  Chamber music - Quartets

  for string quartet
work list 5-84-NW

completed 1984

instruments string quartet

duration 11'

   
   
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