Michael Hersch

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Works

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  • across ... in grief and detail
    for bassoon and violin
    (2022 )
  • anonymous beneath the lemon trees
    seven songs after text fragments of Utler, Kociejowski, Fleischmann, Middleton, Karim and Thucydides
    (2021 )
  • ... das Rückgrat berstend
    for violin/voice and violoncello
    (2017 )
  • Fantasia (Orlando Gibbons)
    arrangement for flute, violin and cello by Michael Hersch
    (2020 )
  • I hope we get a chance to visit soon
    for two sopranos and nine players
    (2017 )
  • Images from a Closed Ward
    for string quartet
    (2010 )
  • Medea
    for soprano, 6-part vocal ensemble, and sixteen players
    Libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann (2022 )
  • Miserere mei Domine
    Fantasia on Music of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and Robert Schumann
    for soprano, bassoon, and violin (2022 )
  • one step to the next, worlds ending
    seven songs after texts of Jan Zwicky
    (2021 )
  • On the Threshold of Winter
    a monodrama in two acts
    (2012 )
  • sapped from me broken
    three songs after texts of Anja Utler
    for soprano, violin, and bassoon (2019 )
  • the script of storms
    songs after poetry of Fawzi Karim for soprano and orchestra
    (2018 )
  • sew me into a shroud of leaves, part 1 – The Vanishing Pavilions
    for solo piano
    (2001-2005 )
  • sew me into a shroud of leaves, part 2 - Last Autumn
    for horn and cello
    (2006-2008 )
  • sew me into a shroud of leaves, part 3 - one day may become menace
    for solo piano
    (2009-2016 )
  • a tearing loose from matter
    for 2 violins
    (2022 )
  • unwrung, apart, always
    for solo flute
    (2020 )
  • Violin Concerto
    for violin and chamber orchestra
    (2015 )
• Solo (excluding keyboard)
  • unwrung, apart, always
    for solo flute
    (2020 )
• Solo keyboard
  • sew me into a shroud of leaves, part 1 – The Vanishing Pavilions
    for solo piano
    (2001-2005 )
  • sew me into a shroud of leaves, part 3 - one day may become menace
    for solo piano
    (2009-2016 )
• Chamber (2-5 players)
  • across ... in grief and detail
    for bassoon and violin
    (2022 )
  • ... das Rückgrat berstend
    for violin/voice and violoncello
    (2017 )
  • Fantasia (Orlando Gibbons)
    arrangement for flute, violin and cello by Michael Hersch
    (2020 )
  • Images from a Closed Ward
    for string quartet
    (2010 )
  • Miserere mei Domine
    Fantasia on Music of Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and Robert Schumann
    for soprano, bassoon, and violin (2022 )
  • sapped from me broken
    three songs after texts of Anja Utler
    for soprano, violin, and bassoon (2019 )
  • sew me into a shroud of leaves, part 2 - Last Autumn
    for horn and cello
    (2006-2008 )
  • a tearing loose from matter
    for 2 violins
    (2022 )
• Large ensemble (6-12 players)
  • one step to the next, worlds ending
    seven songs after texts of Jan Zwicky
    (2021 )
• Voice(s) with large ensemble (6-12 players)
  • anonymous beneath the lemon trees
    seven songs after text fragments of Utler, Kociejowski, Fleischmann, Middleton, Karim and Thucydides
    (2021 )
  • I hope we get a chance to visit soon
    for two sopranos and nine players
    (2017 )
• Orchestra
  • Violin Concerto
    for violin and chamber orchestra
    (2015 )
• Opera
  • On the Threshold of Winter
    a monodrama in two acts
    (2012 )
• Voice(s) and chamber orchestra
  • Medea
    for soprano, 6-part vocal ensemble, and sixteen players
    Libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann (2022 )
• Voice(s) and orchestra
  • the script of storms
    songs after poetry of Fawzi Karim for soprano and orchestra
    (2018 )