Sandeep Bhagwati_________________A Selection of his Music and Scores

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2009 “Souvenir de Wien“ for string quartet. FP Temple Lutry (Switzerland) 01.08.2009 Beethoven Quartett (Please note: The performance was not recorded. This file is just a MIDI-FIle out of the Finale Software - no musicality whatsoever)

2009 “Transience“for 1-3 aerophones, 1-3 chordophones, each player from a different tradition of music making. Commissioned by Jeremias Schwarzer (recorder) and Makiko Goto (koto). This recording is of the North American premiere performance by Cleo Palacio Quintin (flute), Elin Soderstrom (viola de gamba). Montreal 08.05.2009.

2009 “Stele I Ectoplasm“ for prepared piano, jazz trumpet, 4 percussionists and 8 channel live-electronics. FP Montréal (Oscar Peterson Hall) 29.01.2009 Linda Brady (piano), Charles Ellison (trumpet), Sandeep Bhagwati, Isak Goldschneider, Krista Martynes, Julie Loranger (claves) Navid Navab (live electronics)

2008 “Racines Ephemeres” (64 variations on a theme by Claude Vivier)” for 8 wandering musicians, obbligato conductor and live-electronics. Commissioned by Sammlung Essl Foundation for Wien Modern Festival. FP Essl Foundation, Klosterneuburg/Vienna (Austria) 15.11.2008 Nouvel Ensemble Moderne Montreal, Lorraine Vaillancourt.

• Movement I
• Movement II
• Movement III
• Movement IV
• Movement V
• Movement VI

2007 “Vineland Stelae” for trombone solo, 8 master soloists from different ethnic traditions, 8 orchestral groups and 8 channel live-electronics. Commissioned and funded by the California Institute of the Arts, the Multi-Arts Production Fund and Meet the Composer. FP R.E.D.C.A.T. Theatre Los Angeles, 1.-4. November 2007, Miks Svoboda Trombone, Ashish Khan, Alfred Ladzekpo, Vinny Golia, David Johnson, I Nyoman Wenten, Swapan Chaudhuri, Daniel Rosenboom, Vicky Ray, New Century Players , Calfornia EAR Unit, CalArts Ensemble

Movement I

2007 “Scardanelli Sonata” for keyboard instruments. FP of “Komet” as piano piece in a movie called “One Minute More”, Pianist: Guy Livingston, Filmmaker: Nelleke Koop. (Again, these recordings are only MIDI-renderings. No musician playing here.)

Movement I: Komet

Movement II: Diotima

Movement III: Pallaksch

2006 “Atish-e-Zaban” Fires of the Tongue” for 6 voices a capella (SMATBarB), Commissioned by the World New Music Festival 2006. FP 26.7.2006, Neue Vocalsolisten, Theaterhaus Stuttgart

Movement I

2006 “illusies van harder en zacht” chamber music for chinese and western instruments, several versions (translations), Comissioned by Asian Culture Link Vienna FP 21.4.2006, ensemble on-line vienna, Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin

Movement I

Movement II

Movement III

2005 “Inside a Native Land” concert text installation for trombone and eight orchestral groups with 8 channel live electronics. Commissioned for Mike Svoboda by the State of Baden Württemberg FP by Mike Svoboda and the Ensemble Mosaik Berlin 12.3.2005 Heiligkreuzkirche Berlin.
Movement 1: Invite
Movement 2: Stele I
Movement 3: Stele II
Movement 4: Stele III
Movement 5: Divide
Movement 6: Stele IV
Movement 7: Stele V
Movement 8: Stele VI
Movement 9: Stele VII Islands
Movement 10: Stele VIII
Movement 11: Stele IX

2004 “MORA” for trombone, bassclarinet, cello and obbligato conductor. Commissioned by Webern Einklang Composer’s Forum Mittersill FP by Ensemble „die reihe” Vienna FP 18.9.2004 Town Hall Mittersill, Austria

Variation I

2004 “Cliff!” Audio Art work after a poem by Ulrike Draesner,.Commissioned by the National German Radio (Deutschlandradio Berlin). Produced in my own studio, final mix in the Deutschlandradio studios. First broadcast 5.11.2004 by Deutschlandradio Berlin

2003 “Sangit Sambhav” Co-written with Ashok Ranade. Performed by Ensemble Modern, conducted by Kasper de Roo.

2003 “Rasas” Multiple Composition for Ensemble. Commissioned by the Millennium Programme of the City of Frankfurt and by the Ensemble Modern. FP by the Ensemble Modern conducted by Kasper de Roo
Variation 1: Avatars
Variation 3: Beats&Bows
Variation 5: Chaplin
Variation 9: Divine Duets

1991 “Variations (String Quartet No.1)” Performed by Orpheus Quartet

2004 “Stele I” Performed by Ernst Surberg

2002 “Songs on Nothing” Performed by Martina Koppelstetter, Jagdish Mistry
Movement 1
Movement 2
Movement 3
Movement 4

“Ritual der Erinnerten” (1996) Performed by SWR Vokalensemble, conducted by Rupert Huber

2000 “A Whirl of Perspectives” for violin solo. Dedicated to Jagdish Mistry (score)

2000 “Meerasongs” Performed by Martina Koppelstetter, Georg Glasl
Movement 1: Now You Can’t Close Me In
Movement 2: He Had No Words For Me
Movement 3: On A Sudden The Sight
Movement 4: Look How He Wounds Me
Movement 5: My Eyes Stretched Wide