Musical works: selected audio-examples

Sextett für Streicher / 4. “Träume”
“Contemplations” 3 – 7 for solo-cello and small orchestra
Il Vento (Sinfonietta per grande orchestra) / I. “Zefiro”
“Nel Fiume eterno” per clarinetto di bassetto e quartetto d’archi / III. Farfalla
Tango-Concerto for piano and orchestra / II. Intermezzo
“Nachtstück” from “Chamber Symphony”

Piano Concertos

W. A. Mozart

Concerto No. 12 in A major, KV 414
Concerto No. 20 in D minor, KV 466

Edvard Grieg

Concerto in A minor op. 16

Peter Tchaikovsky

Concerto No. 1 in B-flat minor op. 23

Moritz Moszkowski

Concerto No. 2 in E major

Hannes Pohlit

Tango-Concerto
Concerto in E

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Concerto No. 1 in F-sharp minor op. 1
Concerto No. 2 in C minor op. 18

Rachmaninoff: 2nd Piano Concerto

Solo Piano

Johann Sebastian Bach

The Well-Tempered Piano
various Praeludiums and Fugas

Klavieruebung I
Partitas Nos. 2 (c minor), 3 (a minor), 5 (G major)

W. A. Mozart

various Sonatas

Ludwig van Beethoven

various Sonatas

Franz Schubert

various Sonatas and Impromptus

Frederic Chopin

various Nocturnes and Preludes

Robert Schumann

Kreisleriana
Carnaval
Fantasiestücke
Sonata No. 2 g-minor
Fantasy in C major
Arabeske

Franz Liszt

Sonata b minor
Love Dream (Liebestraum) No. 3
Mephisto Waltz No. 1 (»The Dance in the Village Inn«)
Legends Nos. 1 + 2
Harmonies poétiques et réligieuses
Années de pèlerinage
La lugubre Gondola 1 + 2

Liszt: Aux Cyprès de la Villa d‘Este Version I)
Liszt: Les Jeux d’Eau à la villa d’Este
Liszt: Sursum Corda

Franz Liszt – Ferruccio Busoni

Fantasy and fugue on the choral »Ad nos, ad salutarem undam«

Fantasy and Fugue on the choral »Ad nos, ad salutarem undam«

Franz Liszt / Robert Schumann

Love Song (»Dedication«)

Franz Liszt / Richard Wagner

»Walhall« from »Das Rheingold«
»O du mein holder Abendstern« from »Tannhaeuser«
»Isolde’s Love Death« from »Tristan and Isolde«
»Am stillen Herd« from »The Mastersingers of Nuernberg«

Richard Wagner

Elegy in A flat major (»Schmachtend«, 1860/1883)
Albumblatt in C major (»in das Album der Fürstin Metternich«, 1861)
A Sonata for Mrs. M. W.

Carl Tausig / Richard Wagner

»Melody of the shepherd« from »Tristan and Isolde«
Love Scene (»O sink hernieder, Nacht der Liebe«) from »Tristan and Isolde«

August Stradal / Richard Wagner

»Verwandlungsmusik« from »Parsifal«

Alexander Skriabin

Sonata Nr. 3 F-sharp minor
various Preludes and Etudes

Maurice Ravel

Gaspard de la nuit
Miroirs

Claude Debussy

Images Volumes I + II
La plus que lente
EstampesLiebestraum) No. 3
Pour le piano

Sergei Rachmaninoff

Sonata No. 1 D minor
various pieces from „Moments musicaux“, „Preludes“ and „Etudes-Tableaux“,

Rachmaninoff: Mélodie op. 3 No. 3

Sergej Prokofiev

Sonata No. 2 D minor

George Enescu

Sonata No. 1 F-sharp minor

Toru Takemitsu

Rain Tree Sketch II

Hans Werner Henze

Lucy Escott Variations
Cherubino

Hannes Pohlit

Paraphrases de Tango
Paraphrases de Tango/Supplement
Ballade de Salon
Geheimnis / Für Ada

Chamber Music

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

various sonatas for violin and piano

Ludwig van Beethoven

Two Romances, various sonatas (violin and piano)

Franz Schubert

Arpeggione-Sonata
Trout Quintet

Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy

Piano trio No. 1 D minor

Robert Schumann

Pieces in the folk tone (cello and piano)

Johannes Brahms

Sonatas for violin and piano 1-3
Sonatas for cello and piano 1-2

Henryk Wieniawsky

Romance for violin and piano B-flat major

Peter Tschaikowsky

Meditation (violin and piano)

Cesar Franck

Sonata A major for violin and piano

Claude Debussy

»Ariettes oubliées« and »Beau soir« (arranged for violin and piano)
Sonata g minor for violin and piano

Gabriel Fauré

Piano quartet No. 1 C minor

Sergej Rachmaninoff

Two Salon pieces for violin and piano
Sonata for cello and piano

Sergej Prokofiev

Sonata for violina and piano No. 2 D major

Franz Schreker

Der Wind (for violin, cello, clarinet, french horn and piano)

Alban Berg

Seven early songs (arranged for violin and piano)

Anton Webern

Four Pieces for violin and piano op. 7

Hannes Pohlit

Ariette sans paroles
Sonatina for violin and piano
Les Lumières de la Nuit (for piano trio)

As a Conductor

Symphonic Repertory

Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8; »Egmont« Overture
Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3; Haydn Variations; Violin Concerto
Bruch: Violin Concerto g minor
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4
Debussy: Prélude à l’après-midi d’un Faune; Danses pour harpe et orchestre à cordes; La Mer
De Falla: El Amor Brucho
Dvorak: Symphonies Nos. 8, 9; Cello Concerto
Fauré: Pavane
Gershwin: An American in paris
Glière: Horn Concerto
Grieg: Piano Concerto a minor
Haydn: Symphonies Nrs. 92 (»Oxford«), 101 (»The Clock«)
Hindemith: Chamber Concerto No. 1; Funeral Music
Hoffmeister: Viola Concerto
Holst: The Planets
Ibert: Flute Concerto
Liszt: Les Préludes; Orpheus; Malédiction
Mahler: Symphony No. 4; Songs of a Wayfarer; Songs from »Des Knaben Wunderhorn«
Martinu: Oboe Concerto
Mendelssohn-Bartholdy: Violin Concert e minor; Overture »The Hebrids«
Mozart: »Haffner« Symphony; »Prague« Symphony; Symphony No. 39 E flat major; Symphonie No. 40 g minor; Overture »The Magic Flute”; Violin Concert A major; Piano Concert A major
Mussorgski-Ravel: Pictures of an exhibition
Nikodijevic: Exaudi
Nielsen: Flute Concerto
Pohlit: La Chapelle de Francois Liszt; Contemplations; Chamber Symphony; Nachtstueck
Prokoffjeff: Piano Concerto No. 3
Ravel: Piano Concerto G major
Respighi: Gli Uccelli (The Birds)
Rota: Trombone Concerto
Schoenberg: Transfigured Night; Pelleas and Melisande; First Chamber Symphony
Schostakovitch: Symphonies Nos. 9, 10, 15
Schreker: Ein Tanzspiel; Chamber Symphony; Five Songs for low voice
Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 3, 5, 7 (»Unfinished«); 8 (»Great C major«)
Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4; Piano Concerto; »Manfred« Overture
Sibelius: Symphony No. 1; Violin Concerto
Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel
Strauß: Ouvertures »The Bat« und »The Gipsy Baron«
Strawinsky: Pulcinella Suite
Tschaikowsky: Symphonies Nos. 4, 6; »Mozartiana« Suite
Wagner: Siegfried Idyll; Ouvertures »The Flying Dutchman«; »Tannhaeuser«; »Tristan and Isolde«
Webern: »5 Movements« für String Orchestra; Ricercare from the »Musical Offering«

Operas

Humperdinck: Hansel and Gretel
Kram: »Leonce and Lena«
Leoncavallo: I Pagliacci
Mozart: Così fan tutte
Puccini: Suor Angelica

Hannes Pohlit: 3ième Contemplation: Nature morte (excerpt)

Contemporary Music for chamber-ensemble

works by:
Hans Christian Bartel
Luciano Berio
Bernd Franke
Hans Werner Henze
Georg Katzer
Gordon Kampe
Tristan Murail
Dimitri Terzakis
Manfred Trojahn
Jörg Widmann
Isang Yun

Nachtstueck

2008

for chamber orchestra

World Premiere: 2009/01/10, Gotha
Thueringen Philharmonic Gotha-Suhl, conductor: Hannes Pohlit