Sándor Szokolay

When I composed Le Sette Chiese in 2002, this piece was the only one of its kind among my works, in numerous respects: as regards the length, the artists (a large ensemble split into four spatially se...

L'ère de rien (the title is a pun in French, its meaning 'the era of nothing' being homophonous with an idiomatic French phrase meaning 'nonchalantly', 'cascually') could be termed an 'exotic' work, s...

For a special concert at Carnegie Hall in 2005, the New York based Ensemble Sospeso decided to commission short chamber music pieces from several composers in homage to Pierre Boulez's 80th birthday....

The desire to write Streets surfaced in May 2005, while I was walking through the streets of New York. The density of simultaneous human activity was such that it was almost impossible for me to isola...

Recording: - 1 CD Kairos, KAI00127222 Le Sette Chiese - Streets - Eclair de Lune Ircam, ensemble intercomtemporain, Susanna Mälkki (conductor)

Si près, si loin (d'une fantaisie)So near, so far (from a fantasy) The initial motivation of this piece, composed in 2006, was to join two problematics which I have been working on since my earliest c...

Between 2006 and 2009, I was primarily concerned with writing for orchestra (Time Stretch, Finale, Concerto for two violas) and with the idea of narration (several choral pieces, my opera l'Autre côté...

This piece is linked with Marina Abramovic's painting Spirit of Mozart, as part of the 'Kunst-projekt Salzburg'.

A short piece concentrated on the high register of the saxophone and cello... A unified object requiring self-realization within a project of greater scope... Three instruments: the shell, the egg whi...

After Rainer Maria Rilke, Giacomo Leopardi and Friedrich von Schiller, it is Paul Tymich who has the place of honour in this fourth cantata. The poet from Leipzig, whose famous ''Komm, Jesu, Komm!'' w...