WORKS FOR ORCHESTRA

Adagietto – for string orchestra (5’)

Strings

Adagio – ‘Beziehungsweisen’ for orchestra (10’)

Picc, Fl, AFl, 2 Ob, Eglh, 2 Cl, BCl, 2 Bsn, DBsn – 4 Hrn, 3 Trp, 3 Trb, Tb – 3 Perc, Harp, Celesta – Strings

Arioso – ‘Beziehungsweisen’ for orchestra (17’)

Picc, Fl, AFl, 2 Ob, Eglh, 2 Cl, BCl, 2 Bsn, DBsn – 4 Hrn, 3 Trp, 3 Trb, Tb – 3 Perc, Harp, Celesta – Strings

Changements – atmospheric pictures for orchestra (14’)

Picc, Fl, Ob, Eglh, Cl, BCl, Bsn, DBsn – 4 Hrn, 2 Trp, Trb, BTrb, Tb – 3 Perc, Harp – Strings

Chiaroscuro – contrasts for chamber orchestra (15’)

Picc, Fl, Ob, Eglh, Cl, BCl, Bsn, DBsn – 2 Hrn, 2 Trp – Perc – Strings

con moto – ‘Beziehungsweisen’ for orchestra (6’)

Picc, 2 Fl, 2 Ob, Eglh, 2 Cl, BCl, 2 Bsn, DBsn – 4 Hrn, 3 Trp, 3 Trb, Tb – 3 Perc, Harp, Celesta – Strings

Klangbogen – music for orchestra (11’)

Picc, Fl, Ob, Eglh, Cl, BCl, Bsn, DBsn – 4 Hrn, 2 Trp, 2 Trb – 3 Perc, Harp – Strings

Moments lucides – resonances for orchestra (15’)

2 Fl, 2 Ob, 2 Cl, 2 Bsn – 2 Hrn, 2 Trp – 2 Perc – Strings

Prima nocte – music for the first nocturnal vigil for chamber orchestra (19’)

Picc, Fl, Ob, Eglh, Cl, BCl, Bsn, DBsn – 2 Hrn, 2 Trp – Perc – Strings

SOLOIST WITH ORCHESTRA

As dark as night – for contralto and orchestra on a sonnet by Shakespeare (25’)

Contralto solo – Picc, Fl, Ob, Eglh, Cl, BCl, Bsn, DBsn – 2 Hrn, 2 Trp – Harp, 2 Perc – Strings

Cantabile – concerto for viola and orchestra (26’)

Solo-Vla – Picc, Fl, Ob, Eglh, Cl, BCl, Bsn, DBsn – 4 Hrn – 2 Perc – Strings

Final(ment)e – ‘Beziehungsweisen’ for two trumpets and orchestra (16’)

2 Solo-Trps (incl. Flugelh, C-Trp, Picc-Trp), Picc, 2 Fl, 2 Ob, Eglh, 2 Cl, BCl, 2 Bsn, DBsn – 4 Hrn, 3 Trp, 3 Trb, Tb – 3 Perc, Harp, Celesta – Strings

Gegenklang – concerto for violoncello and orchestra (23’)

Solo-Vcl – Picc, 2 Fl, 2 Ob, Eglh, 2 Cl, BCl, 2 Bsn, DBsn – 4 Hrn, 3 Trp, 3 Trb, Tb – 4 Perc, Harp – Strings

Media nox – music for the third nocturnal vigil for flute and orchestra (25’)

Solo-Fl – 2Fl (2. +AFl), Ob, Eglh, Cl, BCl, Bsn, DBsn – 2 Hrn, 2 Trp – Harp, Perc – Strings

Rhapsody – for baritone and orchestra to a text by Sir Salman Rushdie (25’)

Baritone solo – Picc, Fl, Ob, Eglh, Cl, BCl, Bsn, DBsn – 2 Hrn, 2 Trp – 2 Perc – Strings

ROTAS – concerto for oboe and orchestra (25’)

Solo-Ob (+Ob d’amore)  – Picc, 2 Fl, 2 Cl, BCl, 2 Bsn, DBsn – 4 Hrn, 3 Trp, 3 Trb, Tb – 4 Perc, Harp – Strings

Sechs Klanginseln (Six Sound Islands) – for violn, clarinet and string orchestra (26’)

Solo-Vl – Solo-Cl – Strings

Songs of sorrow, songs of joy – concerto no. 2 for viola and string orchestra (23')

Solo-Vla – Strings

Vier Momente (Four Moments) – for flute and string orchestra (16’)

Solo-Fl – Strings

WORKS FOR ENSEMBLE

Éclairs – moments in sound for ensemble (8’)

Fl, Ob, Cl, Bsn, Hrn, Trp, Trb – 2 Perc, Pno – 2 Vl, Vla, Vcl, Db

TENET – 4 songs for soprano and ensemble to poems by Else Lasker-Schüler (25’)

Solo-soprano, Fl, Ob, Cl, Bsn – Hrn, Trp – Perc, Pno – 2 Vl, Vla, Vcl, Db

Wunderhorn-Musik – 7 sound pictures for violin and ensemble (35’)

Solo-Vl, Fl (+Picc, Alto-Fl), Ob (+ Eglh), Cl, BKl – Hrn – 2 Perc, Pno – Vla, Vcl, Db

STAGE WORKS

Annas Maske – opera in ten scenes with a prologue and an epilogue (90’)

Libretto: Alain Claude Sulzer; Soli: Anna Sutter (mezzo soprano), Aloys Obrist (tenor), Pauline (soprano), Baron Putlitz (baritone), Swoboda (tenor), Inspektor Heid (tenor), Weitbrecht (bass), Gustav (boy soprano); Choir: S A T B; Orch.: Picc, Fl, Ob, Eglh, Cl, BCl, Bsn, DBsn – 4 Hrn, 2 Trp, 3 Trb, Tb – 3 Perc, Cembalo/Celesta (1 player) – Strings

The Snow Queen – a story in music for soprano, 2 speakers and orchestra (75’)

Libretto: Andreas Schäfer – based on motives from Hans Christian Andersen; Soli: The Snow Queen (also: the Old Woman, the Young Man, the Robber Woman) (soprano), Narrator/Gerda (speaker), Kay/a Crow (speaker); Orch.: Picc, Fl, Ob, Eglh, Cl, BCl, Bsn, DBsn – 2 Hrn, 2 Trp, Trb, BTrb, Tb – Perc, Cembalo/Celesta (1 player), Strings; Spatial music ‘left’: 1 Hrn, 1 Perc, 1 Vcl; Spatial music ‘right’: 1 Hrn, 1 Perc, 1 Vl; Spatial music ‘back’: 1 DbCl, 1 Harp, 1 Vla

CHAMBER MUSIC

2 Strings

Vier Anklänge – for two violas (9')

String Trio

Magma – sparks of sound for violin, viola and cello (13’)

String Quartet

Ph(r)asen – string quartet no. 1 (18’)

Guggisberg-Variationen – string quartet no. 2 (11’)

Mobile – string quartet no. 3 (26’)

con fuoco – string quartet no. 4 (12’)

Concubia nocte – string quartet no. 5 (9’)
music for the second nocturnal vigil

Fünf Szenen für Gustav – string quartet no. 6 (16’)

Ans Ende der Zeit – string quartet no. 7 (19')

Gesänge der Sehnsucht – string quartet no. 8 (18')

String Quartet +

An durchsichtigen Fäden – for mezzo soprano and string quartet (30’)
to a poem by Kurt Aebli

Danse interstellaire – mourning music for basset clarinet and string quartet (23’)

Des Zaubers Spuren – octet for clarinet, bassoon, horn, string quartet and double bass (16')

Rückert-Lieder (G. Mahler / arr. D. P. Hefti) – for high voice and string quartet (23’)
to poems by Friedrich Rückert

String Sextet

Monumentum – music for string sextet (19’)
2 Vl, 2 Vla, 2 Vcl

Piano Pieces

Schattenklang – adagio for piano (12’)

Beethoven-Resonanzen – piano piece no. 2 (11’)

Resonanzen II – piano piece no. 3 (5’)

Ritmico – piano piece no. 4 (3’)

Wiegenlied – piano piece no. 5 (10’)

Duo with Piano

Poème lunaire – for viola and piano (9’)

Poème noctambule – for violin and piano (14’)

Trio with Piano

à la recherche... – for clarinet, viola and piano (17’)

Lichter Hall – trio no. 2 for violin, violoncello and piano (9’)

Melencolia I – for flute, percussion and piano (20’)

Schattenspie(ge)l – trio for violin, violoncello and piano (25’)

Quartet with Piano

Interaktionen – for violin, viola, violoncello and piano (13’)

Solo Pieces

12 Fantasien – for flute solo (16’)

Canto – for bass clarinet solo (7’)

Coda – mosaic for trumpet solo (8')

con anima – mosaic for viola solo (7’)

Diarium – for violin solo (15’)

Fanfare für Wolfgang – for solo piccolo trumpet (30’’)
dedicated to Wolfgang Rihm

Feu d'artifice – for solo piccolo trumpet (6’)

Klangscherben – mosaic for violoncello solo (10’)

Modules – for flute solo (10’)

O, star! – mosaic for clarinet solo (11’)

O, star! II – mosaic for saxophone solo (11’)

Ritus – 4 dance collages for violoncello solo (11’)

Rotationen – mosaic for oboe solo (11’)

Sternenregen – mosaic for flute solo (11')

Wechselgesang – mosaic no. 2 for viola solo (12’)

Chamber Music with Winds

Counterpoints on “come, sweet death” – for 3 clarinets (11’)
Clarinet, Bassethorn, Doublebass Clarinet

Gallicinium – music for the fourth nocturnal vigil for wind quintet (15')

Harmonia – for saxophone  quartet (12')

Mormorando – music for flute, oboe, clarinet and bassoon (10’)

(T)raum–Ze(n)it – dialogue for 2 bass clarinets (3’)

Vocal Chamber Music

An durchsichtigen Fäden – for mezzo soprano and string quartet (30’)
to a poem by Kurt Aebli

An durchsichtigen Fäden – for mezzo soprano and violoncello (30’)
to a poem by Kurt Aebli

Bergwärts – 3 aggregate states for soprano, flute, violin, violoncello and piano (17’)
to a poem by Felix Philipp Ingold

E las culurs dals tuns – song cycle for baritone and piano (18’)
on Romansh texts by Bibi Vaplan

Hamlet-Fragment – for vocal ensemble (13’)
to a poem by Friedrich Nietzsche
2 Sop, Mezzo, Ten, Bar, Bass

Rosenblätter – song cycle for medium voice and piano (25’)
to poems by Rose Ausländer

Rückert-Lieder (G. Mahler / arr. D. P. Hefti) – for high voice and string quartet (23’)
to poems by Friedrich Rückert

Various Instruments

Reigen – mosaic for violin and marimba (8’)

Mondschatten – for violin and marimba (15’)

CADENZAS

Cadenzas for the flute concertos by W. A. Mozart in C major KV 299 (flute&harp), in G major KV 313 and in D major KV 314 (3’+3’+3’)

Cadenzas and interludes for the Concertos for flute and orchestra by C. P. E. Bach in A major (Wq 168) and in d minor (Wq 22) (4’ + 3’)

Cadenza and interludes for the Sonata in a minor for solo flute (Wq 132) by C. P. E. Bach (2’)

Cadenza to the Concert Rondo for piano and orchestra, KV 382, by W. A. Mozart (2’)

Cadenza to the clarinet concerto in Bb Major by Johann Stamitz (1’+1’)