Sandeep Bhagwati_________________A Selection of his Music and Scores

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2010   “NEXUS” Music performance for 5 wirelessly connected wind musicians wandering through a cityscape (download score)

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. (download score)

2009 “Stele III for James Tenney” for string orchestra. (download score)

2009 “Stele III for String Quartet”

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. (download score)

• 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 (download score)

• Download all 13 Movements (109MB zip file)

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.) (download score)

• Movement I: Komet
• Movement II: Diotima
• Movement III: Pallaksch

2006 “Traces and Shadows” for Sheng solo (download score)

2006 “Stele for James Tenney” for String Quartet. (download score)

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 (download score)

• Download all 11 movements (37.4MB zip file)

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

2004-2005 “Stele I” for prepared piano. Performed by Ernst Surberg (download score)

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

• Download all 27 movements (17.6MB zip file)

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

2004 “Petits Traités” for two electric guitars.

• Movement 1: Sur la pluie (download score)
• Movement 2: Sur le Seuil (download score)

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

• Download selections from 64 movements (42.8MB zip file)

2002 “Songs on Nothing” Performed by Martina Koppelstetter, Jagdish Mistry

• Movement 1
• Movement 2
• Movement 3
• Movement 4

2001-2003 “Awkwardly Skirting Disaster” for solo violoncello. (download score)

2001 “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

2000 “Grünbeinlieder” (download score)

• Movement 1: Unsichtbar Sein
• Movement 2: Biologischer Walzer
• Movement 3: Kleine Litanei
• Movement 4: Meditation

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

2000 “Why Sing Why Cry“ seven meditations for violin and violoncello. Dedicated to Indira Koch and Wolfgang Emmanuel Schmidt. Written for the Sangat Millenium Festival Bombay 2000. (download score)

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

1994 “Alam Al-Mithal” for string quartet (download score)

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

“Prinzessin Sussusan” (download score)