2006 Katja Saariaho
L´amour de loin
(first performance in Germany)
2006 Christian Jost
Angst (fear)
Music theatre for chorus, actors and instrumental ensemble
(string quartet, piano, electric guitar, percussion)
(commissioned by the Rundfunkchor Berlin, world premiere)
22./23./24. October 2004 Mark Anthony Turnage
A Relic of Memory
for mixed choir and orchestra
(commissioned by the Rundfunkchor Berlin and ZaterdagMatinee Amsterdam, world premiere)
2004 Hans Schanderl
Meerwunder
with a prolog "Die Gabe" and Interlude "Das Gleichnis" after texts by Gertrud Kolmar
for chorus a capella
(commissioned by the Rundfunkchor Berlin, world premiere)
2003 Yelena Firsova
Requiem after poems by Anna Akhmatova, Op. 100
for soprano, chorus and orchestra
(world premiere)
conducted by Vassily Sinaiski
2003 Antony Pitts
XL
Motet for 40-part chorus, a cappella
(commissioned by the Rundfunkchor Berlin, world premiere)
conducted by Simon Halsey
2003 Frank Michael Beyer
Resurrection
for three six-part choruses, a cappella
(commissioned by the Rundfunkchor Berlin, world premiere)
conducted by Simon Halsey
2002 Wolfgang Rihm
Astralis (after Novalis)
for cello solo, percussion and mixed chorus
(commissioned by the Rundfunkchor Berlin, world premiere)
conducted by David Jones
2002 Kaija Saariaho
Tag des Jahres
for mixed choir and electronic after words by Friedrich Hölderlin
(world premiere)
2001 Klaus Huber
Ja, ich liege in der Erde - TENEBRAE
for six solo voices and a cappella chorus
(world premiere)
conducted by Robin Gritton
2001 Klaus Huber
Auf der Welt sein - Im Licht sein
Svjet - Man kann nicht atmen
for six solo voices, chorus, timpani and percussion
(commissioned by the Rundfunkchor Berlin, world premiere)
conducted by Robin Gritton
2000 Mauricio Kagel
Schwarzes Madrigal,
for mixed chorus, trumpet, tuba and percussion
(commissioned by the Rundfunkchor Berlin, world premiere)
conducted by the composer
2000 Xiao-song Qu
"Rain"
Work for mixed chorus and instruments commissioned by the Rundfunkchor Berlin
(world premiere)
conducted by the composer
1997 Hans Werner Henze
Symphony No. 9
(world premiere)
along the Berlin Philharmonic - Ingo Metzmacher
1997 György Kurtág
Songs of Despair and Sorrow
(first performance in Germany)
conducted by Robin Gritton
1996 Hans Werner Henze
The Raft of the Medusa
(first performance in Berlin)
1995 Michael Tippett
A Child of Our Time
(first performance in Berlin)
1995 Pierre Boulez
Le Visage Nuptial
(first performance in Berlin)
1993 Dieter Schnebel
Motetus I
(world premiere)
1993 Bruno Cerchio
Missa aurea
(world premiere)
1990 Krzysztof Penderecki
Polish Requiem
(first performance in Berlin)
1989 François-Joseph Gossec
Messe des Morts
(first performance in Berlin)
1988 Albert Lortzing
Die Himmelfahrt Jesu Christi
(first performance in Berlin)
1988 Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu
(world premiere)
1987 Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann
Mass in D minor
(first performance in Berlin)
1984 Mikis Theodorakis
Symphony No. 7
(world premiere)
1983 Mikis Theodorakis
Sadducean Passion
(world premiere)
1982 Mikis Theodorakis
Symphony No. 3
(world premiere)
1976 Siegfried Matthus
Laudate pacem
(world premiere)
1975 Serge Prokofiev
Ivan Grozny
(first performance in Germany)
1973 Dmitri Shostakovich
Symphony No. 13
(first performance in Berlin)
1966 Paul Dessau
Deutsches Miserere
(world premiere)
1958 Hanns Eisler
Cantata on the Death of Lenin
(world premère)
1953 Andrzej Panufnik
Peace Symphony
(first performance in Germany)
