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    Title   Time   Year   Recording Description  
                   

 

  
    bass instinct   70:00   2005 - present   CD 'bass instinct' & 'Illusionista'  

music for 6 acoustic basses

Titles:

Finale 7:00, Oedipus Suite 9:00, Mi tout le Fourbi 4:27, Verloren 8:00, K4 4:00, Kurz-long 7:00, Filmrequiem 1-8 20:00, wie gut wärs 6:00, Neige Grave 6:00

 
    Villa incognita   40:00   2008   Archive ORF  

music for oboe, a-sax, t-sax, slide-g,b,p,dr

premiered at the Jazzfestival Saalfelden Aug. 22nd '08

Titles: Chrysanthemum seed, Dickens, Kitsune, Mai pen rai, Make sanuk, Tanuki pla bonga

 
    Thinking out loud   15:00   2007   archive with the composer  

music for flute, vibraphone, b, p

premiered by Glass Farm ensemble NYC

 
    Im Angedenken Peter Reidel   60:00   2007   CD released by KON:TUR  

music for flute, piano, tp,b-clar,bassoon,accordeon,b

Titles: Calm, Come,Genki, Kurz, Madame, time&tears,Trance,What happened to G?

 
    Quiet Riot   18:00   2007   Archive ORF Landesstudio Salzburg  

for flute, clar, bassoon, 2 violin, viola, cello,p,b, drums premiered at the Komponistenforum Mittersill with the Janus Ensemble directed by Christoph Cech Sept. 09th '07

 
    Amr i bismiki   20:00   2006   archive with the composer  

for violin, trumpet, sopr-sax,percussion,piano,nay,flute,drums, clar,bassoon,e-b, b,

recomposed song by Marcel Khalife
premiered Sept. 2nd 06 with the Absolute Ensemble at the 'Arabian Nights' Festival in Bremen/Germany

 
    Killer Time   16:00   2004   archive with the composer  

for flute, calr, bassoon, violin, 2xviola, cello, bass, percussion

 
    Friendly Fire   12:00   2004   archive with the composer  

for Tenorsax, acoustic bass, percussion

 
    walking (while singing in my head)   40:00   2003   Archive ORF Landesstudio Voralrberg  

For strings, woodwinds, piano: graphic score with lots of cues and melodies, partly improvised, lots written.

 
   

Timeless

cello concerto

   24:00   2003   Archive ORF Landesstudio Voralrberg   For chamber orchestra with single woodwinds and percussion. Premiere performance with Friedrich Kleinhapl as soloist and the extended ensemble plus conducted by the composer, August 2nd 2003, Bregenzer Festspiele  
    A,B,C,....   40:00   2003   archive with the composer
e-mail: peter herbert 		  For chamber group and one improvising soloist, the alphabet in short musical scenes in random order. Premiere performance with the Janus-ensemble Vienna, directed by Christoph Cech, Ernst Reijseger (cello) was the improvising soloist. Generator-festival, Konzerthaus Vienna, March 7th 2003  
    Broadway   6:00   2002   CD 'broadway' Les Formidables
buzo records Oct. 2002

  for soprano/alto/tenor/bass recorders,
3 players		  
    You're my thrill   35:00   2001   will be on CD spring 2003
on the label 'between the lines'
   Songs made famous by Billy Holiday set to contemporary chamber music
comissioned by the ensemble plus/Austria featuring Christine Tobin (vocals) and Martin Schrack (piano). Songs include:
Porgy
Solitude
Gloomy Sunday
Ain't nobody's buisness
You're my thrill

ensemble plus is: violin, 2 violas, cello, bass, flute, clarinet, bassoon plus voice and piano

  
    Dialogs   20:00   2001   Archive Musikschule Bregenz and
the composer e-mail:peter herbert
 

For strings, piano, woodwinds, percussion, recorders and 3 sopranos


commissioned by the Musikschule Bregenz commemorating their 100 year anniverasry, performed by
students of this musicschool

  
    Timepiece   15:00   2001   Archive ORF Landesstudio Voralrberg
  

For piano, violin, cello, bass and drums

commissioned by the New Art Ensemble directed by Fuat Kent

  
    B-A-C-H
A chromatic Universe		   50:00   2000  

CD B-A-C-H A chromatic universe
'between the lines'btl 013
EFA 10183-2

with Carol Robinson (b-clar), Ingrid Jensen (tp/Fl-horn), Marc Copland (p), Kenny Wollesen (dr/perc) and Peter Herbert (bass/comp)


  

7 songs based on the musical motive B-A-C-H (b-flat, a,c,b-natural) for piano, bass, percussion, b-clarinet and fl-horn/trumpet.


CD available through 'between the lines' btl013/EFA10183-2

  
    fifteen coins   45:00   2000/01   archive with the composer
e-mail:peter herbert
  For low strings (bass, cello & viola), percussion and mezzo-soprano
music set to Jorge Luis Borges' poem 'fifteen coins'		  
    Broadway 6 p.m.   1:00   1999   archive with the composer
e-mail to peter herbert
 

Recordings of  60 street corners on Broadway at 6 p.m. over the course of one year
( one second snippets of each one), creating a 1 min. virtual 70 mph trip along Broadway uptwon from Houston to 67th Street.


commissioned by Sulpiz Boisserée for 'Avant Echo'/Geneva

  
    Communications Error   22:00   1999   CD ensemble plus
Herbert-Devienne-Rheinberger
Werke für Streicher und Bläser
Live in der Remise Bludenz
ORF Landesstudio Voralrberg
      
               

String quartet, woodwinds, F-Horn and tape

commissioned by the ensemble plus


      
    Fragments of a City II   12:00   1999  

Archive ORF Landesstudio Vorarlberg

archive with the composer
e-mail to peter herbert


 

Full orchestra and tape

commissioned by the Symphonieorchester Vorarlberg directed by Christoph Eberle

 
    Climbing   25:00   1999  

Archive ORF Landesstudio Vorarlberg

archive with the composer
e-mail to peter herbert


 

"Climbing" concerto for solo bass and string orchestra (5/4/3/3/1/), 3 movements:

"The Fall"
"A notion on life and death"
"old and new horizons"

also available versions for piano/bass
and string quartet/bass

commissioned by Prof. Francisco Obieta

  
    muhler   8:00   1998   archive with the composer
e-mail to peter herbert
   Text: Alexandra Montano 1 soprano, 2 mezzi, acoustic bass  
    Come   7:00   1998   none   Text: Alexandra Montano 1 soprano, 2 mezzi  
    short stories   17:00   1997   archive with the composer
e-mail to peter herbert
   Woodwind quintet, commissioned by the quintett.wien  
    noch unverletzt aber auch schon vom atem bedroht   65:00   1997  

CD Extraplatte EX 274-2
Rec 1993-1996

with Theo Bleckmann (voc), Skuli Sverrisson (e-bass), Jamey Haddad & Steve Shehan (perc) and Peter Herbert (bass/comp)


   Narration opera

Text: Joseph Kopf

Music for 2 basses, 2 percussionists, 2 voices 		 
    100 Y's/why's/wise   45:00   1996   archive with the composer
e-mail to peter herbert
  

String quartet, acoustic bass, 8-track tape

commissioned by the Raika Bregenz for their 100 year anniversary

  
    Interruptions   18:00   1995  

Archive ORF Landesstudio Vorarlberg

archive with the composer
e-mail to peter herbert


  Symphony: strings, 2 flutes, 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 bassoons, 3 French horns, 2 trumpet, 2 trombones, 3 percussionists 1 flute and 1 clarinet off stage commissioned by the Symphonieorchester Vorarlberg  
    piano concerto Nr. 1   25:00   1995   archive with the composer
e-mail to peter herbert
  

Strings, 2 flute, rhythm section, piano solo

commissioned by the summer workshop Neuberg

  
    Difficulties   22:00   1994   archive with the composer
e-mail to peter herbert
   2 choirs, templeblocks, tuning forks, 2 percussionists, acoustic bass solo  
    Unshaven Rooms   13:00   1993  

Archive ORF Landesstudio Vorarlberg

archive with the composer
e-mail to peter herbert


  Flute, Bb-clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, French horn, trombone, piano, guitar, 2 percussionists, acoustic bass Soloists: acoustic bass, Bb-clarinet commissioned by the Camerata Bregenz  
    Finale 3rd movement   6:00   1991   archive with the composer
e-mail to peter herbert
 

Choir, rhythm section

commissioned by Spielboden/Dornbirn as part of the 1991 'KunstLos glücklich' event

 
    Mystico 3   1:35   1991   archive with the composer
e-mail to peter herbert
 

a cappella choir

commissioned by Spielboden/Dornbirn as part of the 1991 'KunstLos glücklich' event

 
    Mystico 4   4:00   1991   archive with the composer
e-mail to peter herbert
 

a cappella choir

commissioned by Spielboden/Dornbirn as part of the 1991 'KunstLos glücklich' event

 
   

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Aziza Publishing, SESAC/NYC

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