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Brett Dean (b.1961) is a Grawemeyer Award-winning composer and viola player. Dean studied in Brisbane until 1984, when he moved to Germany to join the Berliner Philharmoniker’s viola section, a position he held for 15 years. He began composing in 1988, becoming established in his own right through works such as the clarinet concerto Ariel’s Music, which won a UNESCO International Rostrum of Co...read more

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Top Tracks of Brett Dean

Viola Concerto: I. Fragment

Epitaphs: III. Der Philosoph

Intimate decision for solo viola

Now comes the dawn

The Siduri Dances

Pastoral Symphony

Miss Genevieve's Nocturne

Viola Concerto: III. Veiled and Mysterious

Water Music: III. Parched Earth

Viola Concerto: II. Pursuit

Winter Songs: I. (Introduction) - (1. "E") - (2. "N")

Epitaphs: I. Only I Will Know

Dean: Pastoral Symphony

Variation for Rudi

Shadow Music: I. Prelude

To Look Yet Not Find

Shadow Music: II. Forgotten Garden

Epitaphs: II. Walk a Little Way with Me

Water Music: II. Coursing

Was it a voice? (Music for Ascension Day)

Shadow Music: III. Voices and Shadows

Intimate Decisions

Electric Preludes: 1. Abandoned Playground - Live

Epitaphs: IV. György Meets the Girl Photographer

Epitaphs: V. Between the spaces in the sky

Water Music: I. Bubbling

Dramatis personæ: I. Fall of a Superhero

Winter Songs: I. (Introduction) - (e) - (n)

Dramatis personæ: III. The Accidental Revolutionary

Winter Songs: II. 3. "If In Beginning Twilight Winter Will Stand"

The Lost Art of Letter Writing: I. Hamburg, 1854

Between Moments

String Quartet No. 1 "Eclipse": I. Slow and Spacious, Secretive

The Lost Art of Letter Writing: IV. Jerilderie, 1879

Approach (Prelude to a Canon): I. Allegro impetuoso, volatile

String Quartet No. 1 "Eclipse": III. Epilogue

Dramatis personæ: II. Soliloquy

…the scene of the crime…

The Lost Art of Letter Writing: III. Vienna, 1886

Winter Songs: Iii. (4. "Who Are You Little I") - (5. "N")

Approach (Prelude to a Canon): III. Slightly Agitated Though Unhurried

Approach (Prelude to a Canon): II. Calm, Serene

The Lost Art of Letter Writing: II. The Hague, 1882

Winter Songs: II. (If in beginning twilight winter will stand)

Electric Preludes: 6. Berceuse - Live

The Lost Art of Letter Writing: II. The Hague, 1882

Short Stories: No. 1. Devotional

String Quartet No. 2 "And Once I Played Ophelia": I. Fast, Breathless

Pictured Within "Birthday Variations for M.C.B": Var. 6 - Live

String Quartet No. 1 "Eclipse": II. Unlikely Flight

Short Stories: No. 5. Arietta

Short Stories: No. 3. Embers

Short Stories: No. 2. Premonitions

Winter Songs: III. (Who are you little i) - (n)

11 Oblique Strategies: No. 3, Don't Stress One Thing More Than Any Other

11 Oblique Strategies: No. 1, Listen to the Quiet Voice

3 Caprichos after Goya: No. 3. No te escaparas

Vexations and Devotions: II. Bell and Anti-Bell

Voices of Angels: I. Evocation

Vexations and Devotions: III. The Path to Your Door

Beggars and Angels

String Quartet No. 2 "And Once I Played Ophelia": III. Fast, Agitated

11 Oblique Strategies: No. 5, What Are the Sections Sections Of?

Short Stories: No. 4. Komarov's Last Words

3 Caprichos after Goya: No. 1. Que sacrificio!

String Quartet No. 2 "And Once I Played Ophelia": IV. Extremely Still

String Quartet No. 2 "And Once I Played Ophelia": II. Hushed, Distant

Voices of Angels: II. Different Realms

String Quartet No. 2 "And Once I Played Ophelia": V. Slow, Austere

Bliss, Act I, Scene 1, "Death and Transfiguration": Interlude I, "The Descent into Hell"

11 Oblique Strategies: No. 4, Look at a Small Object, Look at Its Centre

Vexations and Devotions: I. Watching Others

Electric Preludes: 2. Topography - Papunya - Live

Notes From The Twittersphere

Testament for 12 violas

III. Parched Earth

Night's Journey: Night´s Journey

Night´s Journey

3 Caprichos after Goya: No. 2. Dios la perdone: Y era du madre

11 Oblique Strategies: No. 6, Don't Be Frightened to Show Your Talents

Testament (version for orchestra) (after Beethoven's Heiligenstadt Testament)

Bliss, Act I, Scene 1, "Death and Transfiguration": "Hey, listen you lot, I've something to tell you!"

Electric Preludes: 3. Peripeteia - Live

Water Music - 2. Coursing

Testament for Orchestra (Live)

Bliss, Act III, Scene 3, "Woman about Town": Interlude V, "On the Rocks"

Water Music - 1. Bubbling

Twelve Angry Men

The Lost Art of Letter Writing - 3. Vienna, 1886

11 Oblique Strategies: No. 7, Disciplined Self-Indulgence

Piano Concert "Gneixendorf Music - A Winter Journey": III. Applause, Friends, the Comedy Is Over - Live

Bliss, Act II, "The Heart-Throb Hotel": Interlude III, "Hotel Room - Awakening"

Water Music - 3. Parched Earth

Vexations and Devotions - I. Watching Others

Vexations and Devotions - II. Bell and Anti-Bell

III. Veiled and Mysterious

The Lost Art of Letter Writing - 1. Hamburg, 1854

Shadow Music I. Prelude

11 Oblique Strategies: No. 9, Ghost Echoes

11 Oblique Strategies: No. 11, In a Very Large Room, Very Quietly

Shadow Music II. Forgotten Garden

Shadow Music III. Voices and Shadows

Hommage à Lutoslawski

The Lost Art of Letter Writing - 2. The Hague, 1882

The Lost Art of Letter Writing - 4. Jerilderie, 1879

Electric Preludes: 5. Perpetuum mobile - Live from City Recital Hall, Sydney, 2013

11 Oblique Strategies: No. 8, Bridges - Build - Burn

Piano Concert "Gneixendorf Music - A Winter Journey": II. Difficult Decisions. Must It Be? - Live

Hommage a Brahms: I. Engelsflugel

Bliss, Act I, Scene 1, "Death and Transfiguration": "This is a catastrophe"

Night Window: I. Introduction

Vexations and Devotions - III. The Path to Your Door

II Dios la perdone: Y era su madre

Dramatis Personae

Electric Preludes: 4. The Beyonds of Mirrors - Live

Piano Concert "Gneixendorf Music - A Winter Journey": I. Gneixendorf? That Sounds Like a Breaking Axle! - Live

Bliss, Act I, Scene 4, "Man about Town": Interlude II, "An Elephant in the Room"

11 Oblique Strategies: No. 10, Disconnect from Desire

String Quartet No. 2, "And Once I Played Ophelia": IV. Extremely still

Water Music -Bubbling

Night Window: II. Fast, vigorous

Berceuse, fro Berlin Music (2010)

Night Window: III. Variations

Night Window: IV. Return

Electric Preludes: 5. Perpetuum mobile - Live

Approach - Prelude To A Canon

Approach (Prelude to a Canon)

Dispersal (Three Memorials)

Thre Caprichos after Goya I ?Que sacrificio!

III. (4. "Who are you little i") - (5. "n")

III No te escaparas

Electric Preludes: 1. Abandoned Playground - Live from City Recital Hall, Sydney, 2013

Trauermusik for viola (or violin or cello) & string orchestra

To Look Yet Not To Find

Konzertmusik for viola & orchestra, Op.48

Electric Preludes: 2. Topography - Papunya - Live from City Recital Hall, Sydney, 2013

Twelve Angry Men For Twelve Cellos

Electric Preludes: 6. Berceuse - Live from City Recital Hall, Sydney, 2013

String Quartet No. 2, "And Once I Played Ophelia": II. Hushed, distant

Ariel's Music: I. Elegy

Intimate Decisions for solo Viola

Was it a Voice?

String Quintet in F Major, Op. 88: I. Allegro non troppo ma con brio

String Quartet No. 2, "And Once I Played Ophelia": V. Slow, austere

Piano Concerto, 'Gneixendorf Music - A Winter's Journey' (2019)

Shadow Music: 1. Prelude

Intimate Decisions for solo Viola

Shadow Music: 2. Forgotten Garden

Ariel's Music - I. Elegy

Komarov's Fall - Music For Orchestra

Bliss, Act I, Scene 2, "Limbo": "Did you see his wife?"

Hommage a Brahms: III. Engelsflugel

Angel's Wings (Music for Yodit)

String Quartet No. 2, "And Once I Played Ophelia": III. Fast, agitated

Bliss, Act I, Scene 4, "Man about Town": Scylla and Charybdis, "Captives, keep your wits about you"

String Quartet No. 2, "And Once I Played Ophelia": I. Fast, breathless

String Quartet No. 1, "Eclipse": I. Slow and spacious, secretive - Revised 2004

Eclipse (String Quartet No.1) - III. Epilogue. Slow and spacious

Hommage a Brahms: II. Hafenkneipenmusik

String Quartet No. 1, "Eclipse": II. Unlikely Flight - Revised 2004

Viola Concerto (2004)

Hommage à Brahms für Klavier: I. Engelsflügel 1

String Quartet No.3 'Hidden Agendas'

Bliss / Act 1 / Scene 1 - Death And Transfiguration: "Hey, Listen You Lot, I’ve Something To Tell You!"

Shadow Music - II. Forgotten Garden

Shadow Music - III. Voices and Shadows

String Quartet No.2 - IV. Extremely still -

Epitaphs - I. Only I will know

String Quartet No.2 - II. Hushed, distant -

Epitaphs - III. Der Philosoph

Eclipse (String Quartet No.1) - I. Slow and spacious, secretive -

String Quartet No.2 - I. Fast, breathless -

Epitaphs - V. Between the spaces in the sky

Eclipse (String Quartet No.1) - II. Unlikely Flight. Presto nervoso -

Electric Preludes

Epitaphs - II. Walk a little way with me

String Quartet No.2 - III. Fast, agitated -

String Quartet No.2 - V. Slow, austere

I. (Introduction) - (1. "e") - (2. "n")

Three Caprichos after Goya

The Last Days of Socrates

Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra Sue-Ellen Paulsen - cello / Between Moments

Shadow Music - I. Prelude

20 Intimate decision for solo viola

Kammermusik No.5 for viola & orchestra, Op.36/4: Movement 1

Electric Preludes: 4. The Beyonds of Mirrors - Live from City Recital Hall, Sydney, 2013

III. The Accidental Revolutionary

Bliss, Act II, "The Heart-Throb Hotel": Back at the Hotel IV, "Usually I don't feel a thing"

3 Caprichos after Goya: No. 2, Dios la perdone: Y era du madre

3 Caprichos after Goya: No. 3, No te escaparas

3 Caprichos after Goya: No. 1, Que sacrificio!

'Cast thy night colour off' and 'Wring from him the cause' (Gertrude Fragments)

Electric Preludes: 3. Peripeteia - Live from City Recital Hall, Sydney, 2013

Bliss, Act III, Scene 2, "Dissolution": "Ah, Harry, my Harry"

Komarov's Fall, Music for Orchestra

Engelsflügel (Live)

Eclipse, for String Quartet (2003)

Songs of Joy, for Baritone & Orchestra (2008)

Intimate Decisions, for Solo Viola (1996)

Carlo, for Strings, Sampler & Tape (1997)

Der Schwanendreher, for viola & small orchestra: No. 1, Zwischen Berg und tiefem Tal

Viola Concerto, 2nd Mov't

Viola Concerto, 1st Mov't

New Variations on a Waltz by Anton Diabelli: Variation for Rudi

Hamlet: Poor Yorick

Hamlet: To be or not to be

Testament (version for orchestra)

Ariel's Music: 2. Circumstances

Shadow Music: 3. Voices In The Shadows

Epitaphs: IV. György meets the 'Girl Photographer'

Ariel's Music: 1. Elegy

Carlo for Strings and Sampler (Final Section)

Testament, for 12 Violas (2002)

Twelve Angry Men, for 12 Cellos (1996)

Viola Concerto: Veiled And Mysterious

Viola Concerto: Pursuit

Viola Concerto: Fragment

Hommage à Brahms für Klavier: III. Engelsflügel 2

Bliss, Act II, "The Heart-Throb Hotel": Home Cameo IV, "Can you really pay for this?"

Winter Songs: I. (Introduction) - [e] - [n]

Der Schwanendreher, for viola & small orchestra: No. 2, Nun laube, Lindlein laube... Der Gutzgauch auf dem Zaune sass (Fugato)

Bliss, Act II, "The Heart-Throb Hotel": "Yes. Is that Conlon Chemicals?"

Viola Concerto, 3rd Mov't

Winter Songs: III. (Who Are you little i) - [n]

Bliss, Act II, "The Heart-Throb Hotel": Home Cameo II, "It would be simpler if we just had him committed"

Bliss, Act II, "The Heart-Throb Hotel": Home Cameo I, "It's crazy, it's costing the earth"

Bliss, Act I, Scene 3, "The Joys of Home": "Hey Dad, when are you going back to work?"

Bliss, Act I, Scene 4, "Man about Town": The Ballad of Little Titch

Bliss, Act I, Scene 2, "Limbo": "Ah! My wife!"

In This Brief Moment

Bliss, Act I, Scene 2, "Limbo": Harry's Vision, "Listen. When it happened I had a vision"

Bliss, Act III, Scene 2, "Dissolution": "They shelter us well, these generous giants"

Bliss, Act I, Scene 5, "Family Secrets": "I have to know. It has to be done"

Bliss, Act I, Scene 4, "Man about Town": "Bloody hell, Harry!"

Bliss, Act I, Scene 4, "Man about Town": "Aldo, my table is taken"

Bliss, Act I, Scene 2, "Limbo": "Welcome to Hell, Father!"

Bliss, Act I, Scene 4, "Man about Town": "Mister Joy. Harold Joy. Before we charge you"

Bliss, Act II, "The Heart-Throb Hotel": "Johnny! What the hell is happening?"

Bliss, Act III, Scene 2, "Dissolution": "Betty, your work is beautiful"

String Quartet No.2 "And once I played Ophelia" First movement

...The Scene Of The Crime...

Twelve Angry Men, for twelve cellos

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