Torsten Rasch
The expressive make-up of Torsten Rasch’s music is unique, with a fluency and assurance on the largest scale and an uncanny ability to spin a vivid and personal sound-world around the ghosts of others.
Works
| Title | Year | Description | Duration | Composer |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Die wunderbaren Jahre | a music theatre work after Reiner Kunze, for 3 singers, narrator and chamber ensemble | Torsten Rasch | ||
| Seven | 2019 | an interpolation for the Schütz St Luke Passion for SATB choir and solo cello | 17 | Torsten Rasch |
| Die andere Frau | 2019 | opera | 100 | Torsten Rasch |
| …in umbra… | 2017 | orchestra | c. 17 | Torsten Rasch |
| A Welsh Night | 2017 | mezzo-soprano and orchestra | 14 | Torsten Rasch |
| Die Formel | 2017 | theatre work for solo voices, chorus, childrens' choir and ensemble | 60-70 | Torsten Rasch |
| Zeit und Ewigkeit | 2016 | a capella choir (mixed voices) | c. 5 | Torsten Rasch |
| Zwei Liebeslieder von Thomas Brasch | 2015 | baritone and orchestra | c.9 | Torsten Rasch |
| Violin Concerto | 2015 rev. 2016 | concerto for violin and orchestra | 29½ | Torsten Rasch |
| A Welsh Night | 2015 | mezzo-soprano and piano | 14 | Torsten Rasch |
| Three Songs | 2014 | bass voice and piano | 8 | Torsten Rasch |
| A Foreign Field | 2013-14 | soprano and baritone soloists, boy's choir, chorus and orchestra | 35 | Torsten Rasch |
| ...in der Hülse von Schnee... | 2014 | a Hölderlin cycle for mixed choir | 15 | Torsten Rasch |
| Lycanthropy - Aria | 2014 | counter-tenor and chamber orchestra | 11 | Torsten Rasch |
| Soldier's Psalm | 2013-4 | anthem for mixed chorus | c.6½ | Torsten Rasch |
| Das Haus der Temperamente | 2013 | orchestra | 27 | Torsten Rasch |
| Four Songs | 2013 | baritone and piano | 9 | Torsten Rasch |
| A Foreign Field Psalm | 2013 | Anthem for a cappella SATB double choir | 5 | Torsten Rasch |
| Here Dead We Lie | 2013 | for a cappella boy's choir | 2½ | Torsten Rasch |
| Was bedeutet die Bewegung... | 2012 | a Mendelssohn Song Cycle for baritone and strings | 25 | Torsten Rasch, Felix Mendelssohn |
| I see Phantoms | 2011 | dramatic scene for baritone and cello | 22 | Torsten Rasch |
| The Duchess of Malfi | 2010 | opera | 72 | Torsten Rasch |
| Ferdinand dreams... | 2010/2012 | Four scenes from the opera "The Duchess of Malfi" for counter-tenor and piano | 16 | Torsten Rasch |
| String Quartet No. 1 | 2009 | string quartet | 16 | Torsten Rasch |
| Die Träumenden Knaben | 2009 | a melodrama based on the text by Oskar Kokoschka | 35 | Torsten Rasch |
| Excantare fruges | 2008 | orchestra | c.11½ | Torsten Rasch |
| Rotter | 2007 | opera in two acts | 160 | Torsten Rasch |
| Le Serpent Rouge | 2004-6 | Song cycle for soprano and orchestra | 48 | Torsten Rasch |
| Wouivres | 2006 | orchestra | 25 | Torsten Rasch |
| Piano Trio | 2005 | piano trio | 33 | Torsten Rasch |
| Mein Herz brennt | 2002 | orchestral song-cycle, with variations | 55 | Torsten Rasch |