Aber gell
for prepared guitar
Duration: 6' 00"
Manuscript

O-Nix
for a woodwind instrument, pedal drum, hihat and tuning apparatus (one player)
Duration: 6' 00"
Manuscript

ALALAKH
A concept composition
for a minimum of three players with any three instruments
Duration: 10' 00"

Alastaire
Recitation
for three performers with instruments
Text: Alistair's necrology.Score: The actors can choose their instruments.
Duration: 15' 00"
Manuscript

"Allen jenen gewidmet"
for two flues, oboe, four clarinets, bass clarinet, two bassoons, horn, euphonium, trumpet, cornet, two trombones and tuba
Duration: 15' 00"
Manuscript

Backform. Konzert für Antonio und Salvatore
for violin and string orchestra
'Backform' (baking tray) rivals the musicianly freshness displayed in the works of Vivaldi; the recipe comes partly from Salvador Dali.
Duration: 17' 00"

Cache-Cache
Scenic piece
with soprano recorder and further instrumentation
Score: A soprano recorder and a large selection of flutes, sound instruments, soap bubbles, tape and lighting.
Cache-Cache is to be played by one player on a stage with lighting equipment. The lighting concept requires a computer-controlled system. (The lighting can be removed when the piece is performed as a concert).

Duration: 30' 00"
Manuscript

La Chandelle du Sacré-Coeur
for piano
Duration: 5' 00"
Manuscript

Consegna
for an indeterminate number of pianists
'Consegna' is a model score to be elaborated on by the individual pianist.
Duration: var.
Manuscript

Contemporaine
for two organs
Duration: 15' 00"
Manuscript

Farfallina
for soprano recorder, three trumpets and three trombones
Duration: 5' 00"
Manuscript

Die Geschichte von den 3 Weisen
for tenor, baritone, bass, choir and orchestra (2fl.2ob.ca/4tpt/org/str)
Duration: 20' 00"
Manuscript

Gigantija
for violin solo
Duration: 3' 00"

Glissandini für Vicky
for violin solo
Duration: 3' 00"

Hic et nunc
for orchesta (pic.fl.cl.bcl.bn.cbn/4cym.Gopy-Yantra/12str; tp)
The string players perform on the podium. A piece written in traditional notation.
Duration: 15' 00"
Manuscript

INCROCIANDO
for orchestra (pic.ob.cl.bn/hn.tpt.tbn.tba/1perc/str)
Duration: 15' 00"

Jocuri
for six female backsides and twelve gambas
A scenic music piece.
Duration: 20' 00"
Manuscript

Knakesch abelmosch
for prepared violoncello
Duration: 18' 00"
Manuscript

Mnajdra
for violin solo
Duration: 3' 00"

Morton
for one pianist
Duration: var.
Manuscript

Mukaschi
for four players with melodic instruments
Duration: var.
Manuscript

Nô
Scenic musical piece
for orchestra with Yogi
This piece can last between half an hour and half a night.
‘Nô’ is a work for stage in which the musicians themselves sometimes move around.

Duration: var.
Manuscript

Nuume
for quijada, two tenor recorders and two sub bass recorders
Duration: 20' 00"
Manuscript

Ono
a piece with a non-musical instrumentarium and exotic / Renaissance instruments
Score:
a) Example: roof tiles, flowerpots, wire and other similar things.
b) Roof tiles, dulcimer, log drum and other similar things - duration not specified (minimum of one hour).
‘Ono’ requires a large stage and can be realised as a scenic pieca.

Duration: min. 60'
Manuscript

OPHIR
Contrapunctus
for twelve violins
Based on the twelve-tone scale this piece fans out from monophony to dodecaphony.
Duration: 25' 00"

Pliis
for organ
Duration: 5' 00"

Pubococcygeus
for piano
Duration: 6' 00"
Manuscript

RoseRose
for piano (only possible on a grand)
Duration: 5' 00"

SAAM OKKUUINUNS
for recorder and electronic tape loop
Duration: 15' 00"-20' 00"
Manuscript

"Sankt Ziegensack"
for mixed a-cappella choir
Texts: Hans Arp
Duration: 10' 00"

Scritto in Sabbia
for piano and piano tintinnio
Martin Spähler of Ricketwil constructed the piano tintinnio.
Duration: 13' 00"
Manuscript

STARS
for solo violin and strings
Duration: 13' 00"
Manuscript

Stubemusig
for violin scordatura, square piano, harmonium, concertina and obligatory over head projector
Traditional notation.
Duration: 10' 00"
Manuscript

UGURUGUSAK
for percussion and string orchestra
Duration: 22' 00"

"Und hätte der Liebe nicht"
for mixed a-cappella choir
Texts: Bibel / Liturgie
Duration: 10' 00"
Manuscript

"Und ruhte am 7. Tage von allen seinen Werken"
for organ
Duration: 20' 00"

"Väritön"
for flute, violoncello and organ (with various percussion instruments e.g. tubular bells, 'Wassambarassel', 'chlopfophone' etc.)
The organ requires a screw manual available from the composer. The cooperation of the audience is integrated into the composition.
Duration: 40' 00"
Manuscript

"Växt"
Concert
with piano and large orchestra (pic.1.1.ca.1.bsthn.asx.1/4.2.2.2/1perc/cel.pf/electronic/str), monitor and video
Duration: 40' 00"
Manuscript

Vestiva i Colli
for recorder and harpsichord
Based on a madrigal by G.P. da Palestrina.
Duration: 7' 00"

XAIPE
for viola and organ
Duration: 7' 00"
Manuscript

"in classe"
for violin solo
Duration: 2' 00"
Manuscript

"sei esecizi per ragazze da suonare d'estate sul violino"
for violin solo
Duration: 15' 00"
Manuscript

"fly bird fly"
for violin solo
Duration: 3' 00"
Manuscript

"jojo"
for orchestra (2.2.2.1/wind ad lib./perc(+glissando)/str) and four jojo players
Duration: 15' 00"
Manuscript

Fahrt nach Arosa
for two piccolo flutes, two flutes, 2 alto flutes and percussion (can be realised electronically)
Duration: 25' 00"

Gang dä Gang
Procession music
for boys voice or soprano, actor, clarinet, trumpet, trombone, alphorn and accordion or reed organ resp. positive organ
Duration: 40' 00"

Fiddle-Parade
Organigram
for strings playing together at all levels of difficulty
Duration: 15' 00"-20' 00"

Choral 516 (Evangelisches Kirchengesangsbuch): "Wind kannst du nicht..."
Adaptation
for a-cappella choir
Duration: 2' 00"

Toccata (1967)
for organ
Duration: 4' 00"

Cantarella (1998)
for violoncello, horn solo and string orchestra
Duration: 15' 00"
Manuscript

Rotondo (1999-1999)
for nonet (oboe, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, viola, double-bass, accordion, piano and percussion)
A collaboration between members of the 'Komponistensekretariats Zürich' (Werner Bärtschi, Ulrich Gasser, Max Eugen Keller, Martin Sigrist und Peter Wettstein): The score is sent back and forth between the five composers, each fills in a 50-second section before sending it on to the next.
Duration: 50' 00"
Manuscript

CHF: 122.00

Three lines (2000)
for piano
A composition in cooperation with Werner Bärtschi and Martin Sigrist. A homage to J.S. Bach. Three very different strata combine to form surprising sounds.
Duration: 4' 00"

CHF: 16.00

Duangel (2000)
for 2 choired string orchestra
2nd String choir without violins.
Duration: variabel
Manuscript

Liegende Klänge für liegende Frauen (2001)
for six female a-cappella voices
Duration: 10' 00"
Manuscript

Amanamtagga (2001)
for percussion and recitation
Texts: Konrad Volk
Duration: 12' 00"
Manuscript

Triangel (2003)
for string orchestra
Duration: variabel
Manuscript

Uguale e soltanto il cielo (2003)
for 4 violins
Duration: 20' 00"
Manuscript

Hosianna (2004)
for mixed a-cappella choir
Duration: 10' 00"-12' 00"
Manuscript

Schwirren (2005)
free instrumentation / groups of idiophones
Duration: 20' 00"
Manuscript

Traum (2006-2007)
for 2 solo sopranos and string orchestra
Texts: Eva Maria Trüeb
Duration: 10' 00"
Manuscript

Rotondo oder "die Kunst des Fügens" (stv/asm Nr. 16, 2002)

Works:

Bärtschi, Werner: Rotondo (1999-1999)

Info: www.fonoteca.ch

Kreuzende Wege - Komponistensekretariat Zürich (Grammont Porträt Nr. CTS-M 54, 1997)

Interpreters:

Griffiths, Howard

Works:

Bärtschi, Werner: Federkopf (1996)
Gasser, Ulrich: Pasticcio (1995)
Keller, Max E.: Pentalog (1995-1996)
Wettstein, Peter: Ritornelli (1995)
Sigrist, Martin: INCROCIANDO ()

Info: www.fonoteca.ch

Kreuzende Wege (Orchesterwerke von Werner Bärtschi, Ulrich Gasser, Max E. Keller, Martin Sigrist und Peter Wettstein), in: Katalog zum Projekt "Kreuzende Wege" des Komponistensekretariats Zürich 1996

Werner, Rudolf: Ulrich Gasser, Martin Sigrist: Zwei Thurgauer Komponisten, in: Bodensee-Hefte 4 (1991)