Poul Ruders

Set of parts for Piano Quartet by Poul Ruders (2015-16). Commissioned by the Bravo! Vail Music Festival, Vail, Colorado (2016) and Patricia Isenberg, the Ocean Reef Chamber Music Festival, Key Largo,...

Score available: KP00247 Ruders writes: Quartet No. 3 'Motet' was written in 1979, commissioned by the Lerchenborg music-week of 1979 during which it was first performed by Quatuor Bernède. This short...

It might be of interest for some to note, that a gap of only six months separates the writing of my second and third quartets (1979), but a 33 year interval stands between the third and the present pi...

Score = WH31600

Concerto For Viola And Orchestra by the Danish composer Poul Ruders. For Viola with Piano reduction. This 28 minute piece was written for Yuri Bashmet, commissioned by Léonie Sonnings Music Foundation...

According to tradition, a mid- or late-19th century instrumental Romance - or Romanza - is a shortish composition of predominantly melodic nature, with a slight leaning toward the sentimental. In seve...

THRONE (1988) for Clarinet and Piano was composed on a commission from the Swedish clarinetist Hakon Rosenberg. Structurally it is organized in an arch form. Although it begins in the piano of the wor...

Tattoo For One composed in 1984 is a virtuosic work for Clarinet Solo by important Danish composer Poul Ruders. Dedicated to Mette Bugge Madsen, this is a veritable tour de force, an impressive work i...

Poul Roduers' work for Solo Percussion dating from 1988. With Latin and World drums included in the instrumentation this is a precise and detailed yet expansive piece.

For Niels-Ole Bo Johansen on the occasion of his 50th birthday. Fanfare for Tombone and Organ.

Solo violin part for Violin Concerto No. 1 for Violin solo and Harp, Harpsichord and Strings by Poul Ruders (1981).

Ruders writes: This short piece 'Variations' for violin solo is composed of 57 bars, which you could call the theme. Each of the bars or musical units are then repeated, but in a reshuffled order, so...

Poul Ruders Bel Canto for Violin Solo.

Summer's Prelude & Winter's Fugue is a fantastic Violin solo, expertly composed by Poul Ruders. This fantastic piece was Commissioned by ARD International Music Competition, Munich in 2009.

12 CANONS for VIOLIN and GUITAR (2012). Dedicated to David Starobin. Premiere at Curtis Institute, Philadelphia, on 2 April, 2013. Duration: approx. : 13 minutes.

The Rabbit Sends In A Little Bill for Violin and Piano with Narrator was composed by Poul Ruders in 2014. Text from 'Alice's Adventures In Wonderland' by Lewis Carrol.

For Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra. Arias, Interludes and Postlude from the opera The Handmaid's Tale. Based on the novel by Margaret Atwood.

In Latin Anima means soul but it is also a Jungian expression for the female element of the male. Anima forms the first part of a nameless trilogy of solo concertos, which emphasizes reflective moods....

Ruders writes: There's a solid tradition in the history of Western music of turning the theme of Nicolo Paganini's '24th Caprice' for soloviolin into a set of variations endemic to the time and style...

For Piano and Orchestra. Commissioned by The Norwegian Radio Orchestra and Jerome Lowenthal. Full Score. Orchestration 3 Flutes (3rd dbl. Piccolo) 3 Oboes (3rd dbl. Cor Anglais in F) 3 Clarinets (1...

Paganini Variations - Piano Concerto No. 3 (The original guitar-part arranged for piano and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott by the composer, 2014). Programme note: In 1999 my friend, American guitar virt...

Concerto For Viola And Orchestra by the Danish composer Poul Ruders. Full score. This 28 minute piece was written for Yuri Bashmet, commissioned by Léonie Sonnings Music Foundation and first performed...

Ruders writes: My second concerto for violin and orchestra is a 'reverse' cousin of Polydrama the cello concerto. The former starts out extremely slow and speeds up gradually and the latter progresses...

The full score of Ruders' Solar Triology for large orchestra.

Corona - The Solar Trilogy No. 3 for Orchestra was composed by Poul Ruders in 1995. Programme note: CORONA makes the final part of the SOLAR-TRILOGY, a huge symphonic triptych about the life and behav...