David Leisner

For High Voice and Guitar

Leisner has created masterful guitar accompaniments well-suited to the vocal lines of the famous De Falla vocal cycle. The seven songs (El Pano Moruno; Seguidilla murciana; Asturiana; Jota; Nana; Canc...

Leisner was pleased to use poems by Pulitzer Prize winner Mary Oliver in his new cycle West Wind; taking its name from one of Oliver's collections. 'In recent years; diatonic and chromatic harmonic ap...

Als der Gitarrist John Olson und die Sopranistin Gioia De Cari mich beauftragten, ein Stück für sie zu schreiben, wollte ich etwas Theatralisches schreiben, das besonders zu Gioia passen würde, die so...

SONATA FOR GUITAR

Flute and guitar duo; along with string quartet; perform three movements based on Sephardic folk songs. The common theme is love just out of reach: the sad hope of finding love; the unrequited love fo...

Commissioned by Symphony Space; Ghosting is a concert work written for the impressive Brazil Guitar Duo by David Leisner; a master guitarist himself. Leisner says; 'The work begins and ends with harmo...

For 4 Guitars. Score and parts. Composed 1988. Duration 23:00.

For Violin and Guitar

With a lone cello and four percussionists; Leisner considers the horror and waste of war - the few who lust for power; the millions who suffer and die. A requiem mass is played by instruments; followe...

Leisner's settings of James Tate poems was written for the brilliant guitarist David Starobin and the equally distinguished baritone Patrick Mason; a musical collaboration of four decades in performan...

Leisner works wonders with just a baritone voice and a cello. Using a compositional style that has come upon him over the years; he has created a cycle of five songs of varied moods; based upon a Germ...

Dedicated to the luminary Steve Cowan, …empty mind, open heart… is a four-movement suite that centers around the intervals of a fifth and a tritone. Each movement is inspired by a quote from the Tao T...

Contents: Beauty / Exultation / Humility / Letter / Madness / Simplicity.