Excerpt: Compositions for Lupophone
by Peter Hurd; reorganized and amended by Holger Hoos, editor-in-chief since 2020
version 2 (1 February 2022)
This collection is based on the catalogue of musical works requiring heckelphone or bass oboe instrumentation assembled by Peter Hurd beginning in 1998. For this new edition, the original version of the repertoire list has been edited for accuracy, completeness and consistency, and it has been extended with a number of newly discovered pieces.
Some entries could not (yet) be rigorously verified for accuracy; these were included nonetheless, to provide leads for future investigation, but are marked clearly. Pieces were selected for inclusion based solely on the use of heckelphone, bass oboe or lupophone, without any attempt at assessing their artistic merit. Arrangements of pieces not originally intended for these instruments were included when there was clear evidence that they had found a significant audience.
We gratefully acknowledge contributions by Crawford Best, Ulrich Brokamp, Michael Finkelman, Francis Firth, Alain Girard, Thomas Hiniker, Robert Howe, Gunther Joppig, Georg Otto Klapproth, Mark Perchanok, Andrew Shreeves and Michael Sluman.
Aho, Kalevi (1949-): Symphony No. 17 (Sinfonisia freskoja), 2017
Publisher: Fennica Gehrman
Remarks: premiere on 4 April 2019 in Lahti, Finland, by Sinfonia Lahti under Dima Slobodeniuk; includes a lupophone part that, according to the composer, can also be played on heckelphone or bassoon
Duration: 65min
Tags: lupophone, heckelphone; orchestra
Additional information can be found here.
Andreyev, Samuel (1981-): PHP, 2003
Publisher: Edition Impronta
Remarks: for heckelphone (or lupophone) and 2 pianos; revised 2011; premiere 15 March 2011 in Amsterdam
Duration: 12min
Tags: heckelphone, lupophone; chamber music
Additional information can be found here; a recording is available here.
Arter, Mathias (1964-): ... Wotan ..., 2012-2013
Remarks: three scenes for lupophone and ensemble; commissioned by ensemble proton bern with support by STEO-STIFTUNG Zürich; dedication "Im Andenken an meinen geliebten Vater"; premiere on 6 September 2013 in Bern, Switzerland, by ensemble proton bern
Duration: 18min
Tags: lupophone; chamber music
Additional information can be found here; a recording is available here.
Arter, Mathias (1964-): Szene, 2014
Remarks: für Lupophon und Kontrabassklarinette; revidiert 2018
Duration: 10min
Tags: lupophone; chamber music
A recording is available here.
Arter, Mathias (1964-): Gestalten (Fünf Portraits in Form freier Variationen), 2015
Remarks: for lupophone and piano
Duration: 18min
Tags: lupophone; keyboard instrument
Additional information can be found here; a recording is available here.
Arter, Mathias (1964-): Medusa (Fuga a 5 voci), 2015-2016
Remarks: 1st version 2015 for lupophone, violin, piano, cello and harp; 2nd version 2016 for lupophone, flute, saxophone, accordion, piano, cello and double bass; dedication 1st version: dem Ensemble Proton zu seinem 5-jährigen Bestehen gewidmet; dedication 2nd version: Meinen Freunden der pre-art soloists gewidmet: Boris, Raphael, Stefan, Vladimir, Tobias und Aleksander zu Ehre
Duration: 4min
Tags: lupophone; chamber music
A recording is available here.
Arter, Mathias (1964-): Party Music III (27 Momente für Lupophon und Akkordeon), 2017
Remarks: for lupophone, accordion and sampler
Duration: 7min
Tags: lupophone; chamber music
Black, Annesley (1979-): abgefackelte wackelkontakte, 2020-2021
Remarks: for lupophone, no-input mixing board and large orchestra; premiere on 14 October 2021 in Donaueschingen, Germany, by Peter Veale (lupophone), Mark Lorenz Kysela (no-input mixing board) and the SWR Symphonieorchester under Brad Lubman, conductor
Duration: 22min
Tags: lupophone; orchestra
Additional information can be found here; a recording is available here.
Boneh, Oren (1991-): Rut, 2018
Publisher: Babel Scores
Remarks: for octet (piccolo flute, lupophone, bass clarinet, contraforte, piano, percussion, violin and cello); commissioned by ensemble proton bern
Duration: 5min
Tags: lupophone; chamber music
Additional information can be found here; a recording is available here.
Boneh, Oren (1991-): Churn, 2019
Remarks: for bass flute, lupophone, contraforte and harp; commissioned by ensemble proton bern; premiere on 1 March 2019 in Bern, Switzerland, using bass clarinet instead of lupophone
Duration: 4min
Tags: lupophone; chamber music
Additional information can be found here; a recording is available here.
Chafta-Douka, Faidra (1990-): Vedema, 2011
Remarks: für Lupophon und Kontraforte
Tags: lupophone; chamber music
Additional information can be found here.
Corrales, Arturo (1973-): Massiv, 2019
Remarks: for bass reeds and live electronics; premiere 2019/09/11 by BlattWerk Quintett at Musikfestival Bern, Dampfzentrale, Bern, Switzerland
Duration: 23min
Tags: lupophone; chamber music
Additional information can be found here; a recording is available here.
Darbellay, Jean-Luc (1946-): Plages, 1985
Publisher: Hug & Co. Musikverlage, Zürich
Remarks: originally for cor anglais or alto saxophone; version for heckelphone solo (2008), premiere on 6 June 2008 in Bern, by Alain Girard; version for lupophone solo (2017)
Duration: 6min
Tags: heckelphone, lupophone; solo
Additional information can be found here; a recording is available here.
Darbellay, Jean-Luc (1946-): Runa, 2017
Remarks: for ensemble; premiere on 30 April 2017 in Bern, Switzerland, by ensemble proton bern under Matthias Kuhn
Duration: 16min
Tags: lupophone; chamber music
Additional information can be found here; a recording is available here.
Deligiannis, Thanasis (1983-): Une prière, 2011
Remarks: for female voice, lupophon, 2 vibraphones, 2 celli, harp and positive organ; text by Dimitris Dimitriadis; a 2014 version using cor anglais instead of lupophone also exists
Duration: 10min
Tags: lupophone; chamber music
A recording is available here.
Doo, JiYoun (1984-): Die Dunkelkammer
Remarks: for lupophone und contraforte; premiere on 21 October 2014 in Dresden, Germany, by Martin Bliggenstorfer and Élise Jacoberger
Tags: lupophone; chamber music
Additional information can be found here.
Escalzo, Noelia (1979-): Duo, 2016 [?]this entry is only partially verified
Remarks: for lupophone and contraforte; written for Harry Searing and Lewis Lipnick; premiere on 26 June 2016 in Columbus, Georgia, by Harry Searing and Lewis Lipnick
Tags: lupophone; chamber music
Additional information can be found here.
Feldman, Walter (1965-): « ... Unsichtbarer Text ...» (Wolfs- «Allgebrah» für 8 Instrumente), 2015-2016
Publisher: Carus-Verlag, Stuttgart (16.334)
Duration: 21min
Tags: lupophone; chamber music
Additional information can be found here; a recording is available here.
Finnissy, Michael (1946-): Âwâz-e Niyâz, 2012
Publisher: available from the composer
Remarks: for oboe (doubling lupophone) and piano; premiere on 7 December 2012 in London, UK, by Christopher Redgate (oboe, lupophone) and Michael Finnissy (piano)
Duration: 45min
Tags: lupophone; keyboard instrument
A recording is available here.
Gardner, James E. (1962-): Charge, 1999
Publisher: Amoris International AI SI 008
Remarks: for a member of the oboe family of instruments; dedicated to Jennifer Paull; premiere in 2000 at the IDRS Conference in Buenos Aires, by Jorge Postel Pavisic; original version 1997 for clarinet
Duration: 2min
Tags: heckelphone, bass oboe, lupophone; solo
Additional information can be found here.
Gushchyan, Arman (1981-): Four No Questions, 2012
Remarks: live sound installation for bass flute, bass oboe (lupophone), bass clarinet and electronic alarm clocks; premiere on 10 March 2012 in Bern, Switzerland, by ensemble proton bern
Duration: 9min
Tags: bass oboe, lupophone; chamber music
A recording is available here.
Henking, Christian (1961-): Keine Zeit ist zeitig mit der Sehnsucht Zeit, 2011
Remarks: for mezzosoprano, baritone, flute, lupophone, contraforte, violin, violoncello, harp and piano; after a text by Robert Walser; premiere on 17 September 2017 in Bern, Switzerland, by ensemble proton bern
Duration: 30min
Tags: lupophone; chamber music
Additional information can be found here; a recording is available here.
Hernández Canales, Carlos Gerardo (1990-): Trío
Remarks: for lupophone, horn, viola and contrabass
Tags: lupophone; chamber music
Additional information can be found here.
Ho, Ting: Concertino Morning, 2015
Remarks: for clarinet, lupophone and chamber orchestra; premiere on 1 April 2015 in Newark, NJ, USA, by Nancy Vanderslice (oboe), Andrew Pecota (lupophone) and the Baroque Orchestra of New Jersey under Robert W. Butts
Duration: 7min
Tags: lupophone; orchestra
A recording is available here.
Inamori, Yasutaki (1978-): Divide et impera, 2013
Publisher: edition gravis
Remarks: for lupophone, bass clarinet, contraforte, harp, violin and cello; premiere 2014 in Bern, Switzerland, by ensemble proton bern
Duration: 9min
Tags: lupophone; chamber music
Additional information can be found here; a recording is available here.
Johns, Brennan (1994-): Symphony No. 1 in C# minor, op. 16, 2019
Duration: 41min
Tags: lupophone; orchestra
A recording is available here.
Lara, Augustin (1897-1970): “Granada” in the style of The Three Tenors (arrangement by Malcom Messiter), 2012
Remarks: arrangement for bass oboe and lupophone, flute (or violin), double bass and/or contra bassoon, and harpsichord or two guitars; also performed at least once by lupophone, bass oboe, musette, cor anglais, flute, piano and double bass
Tags: lupophone, bass oboe; chamber music, arrangement
Additional information can be found here.
Lim, Liza (1966-): Tongue of the Invisible, 2010-2011
Remarks: for baritone, improvising pianist and 16 musicians; based on the poetry of 14-century Persian mystic Hāfez, translated/ adapted by Jonathan Holmes; commissioned by the Holland Festival and Ensemble musikFabrik
Duration: 54min
Tags: lupophone; chamber music
Additional information can be found here; a recording is available here.
Lin, Mu Xuan (1984-): Double Jeopardy, 2013
Remarks: for eight instruments (flute, lupophone, clarinet, contraforte, violin, cello, piano and harp); premiere on 24 February 2014 in Bern, Switzerland, by ensemble proton bern under Matthias Kuhn
Duration: 10min
Tags: lupophone; chamber music
Additional information can be found here; a recording is available here.
Nagel, Adrian (1990-): Odem, 2014
Remarks: for lupophone und contraforte; premiere on 20 October in Leipzig, Germany, by Martin Bliggenstorfer (lupophone) and Elise Jacoberger (contraforte)
Duration: 8min
Tags: lupophone; chamber music
Additional information can be found here; a recording is available here.
Newton, Brett (1982-): Concerto for Bass Oboe (unfinished), 2007
Remarks: written for lupophone; the fragment was released in 2016 by the composer
Tags: lupophone; orchestra
Redgate, Christopher (1956-): Asides, 2010 [??]this entry has not (yet) been verified
Remarks: for oboe, lupophone and Tibetan bowls
Tags: lupophone; chamber music
Redgate, Christopher (1956-): Dodo's Lament, 2012
Remarks: for solo lupophone and small string orchestra
Tags: lupophone; chamber music
Additional information can be found here.
Redgate, Christopher (1956-): Furioso, 2012 [??]this entry has not (yet) been verified
Remarks: for solo lupophone
Tags: lupophone; solo
Schafer, Dominique (1967-): INFR-A-KTION, 2017
Remarks: for lupophone, contraforte and ensemble; commissioned by Ensemble Proton Bern
Duration: 14min
Tags: lupophone; chamber music
A recording is available here.
Schick, Tobias Eduard (1985-): Versuch einer Utopie des Vergessens, 2013
Remarks: for lupophone solo; premiere on 21 October 2014 in Dresden, Germany, by Martin Bliggenstorfer
Duration: 12min
Tags: lupophone; solo
Additional information can be found here; a recording is available here.
Staffel, Andreas F. (1965-): In hohem Holz ... und weiter, 2016
Publisher: Edition Anthemion (710181)
Remarks: for oboe solo, oboe d'amore, cor anglais and baritone oboe ... individually or in arbitrary combinations, with arbitrary changes between instruments, with and without interplay; dedicated to Antje Thierbach; premiere on 19 October 2017 in Berlin, Germany, by Antje Thierbach
Duration: 12min
Tags: bass oboe, heckelphone, lupophone; chamber music, solo
Additional information can be found here; a recording is available here.
Steward, Donald J. (1970-): ... vebländeti [reflexion] ..., 2018
Remarks: for flute, lupophone, bass clarinet, contraforte, harp, piano, violon and cello; premier 2018/02/25 by ensemble proton in Bern, Switzerland
Duration: 12min
Tags: lupophone; chamber music
Additional information can be found here; a recording is available here.
Tipp, Devon Osamu (1991-): Doppelkonzert - Praelude und Tarantella, 2013 [??]this entry has not (yet) been verified
Remarks: for bassoon, lupophone and ensemble
Tags: lupophone; chamber music
Tipp, Devon Osamu (Devon Yasamune Toyotomi) (1991-): Lithium Daphnae, 2011-2013
Remarks: for heckelphone (or bass oboe or lupophone), viola and piano; premiere on 7 October 2013 in Rostock, Germany, by Sabine Kaselow (bass oboe), Christoph Stark (viola) and Jenns Hoffmann (piano)
Duration: 6min
Tags: heckelphone, bass oboe, lupophone; keyboard instrument
Additional information can be found here; a recording is available here.
Zafra, Jacques (1986-): Übergestern, 2014
Remarks: for lupophone und contraforte; dedicated to Pauline Raker; premiere on 21 October 2014 in Dresden, Germany, by Martin Bliggenstorfer (lupophone) and Elise Jacoberger (contraforte)
Duration: 7min
Tags: lupophone; chamber music
Additional information can be found here; a recording is available here.
Zinsstag, Gérard (1941-): Vier Affekte, 2018
Publisher: Edition Ricordi, Berlin (SY 4942)
Remarks: for flute (also alto and bassflute), lupophon, clarinet (also bass and contrabass clarinet), bassoon (contraforte or contrabassoon), harp, piano, violin and violoncello; commissioned by the ensemble proton bern; premiere 2019/05/27 by ensemble proton under Matthias Kuhn, in Bern, Switzerland
Duration: 20min
Tags: lupophone; chamber music
Additional information can be found here; a recording is available here.
Zúñiga, Julio (1987-): Lupophone solo, 2014
Remarks: premiere on 24 October 2014 in Dresden, Germany, by Martin Bliggenstorfer
Duration: 3min
Tags: lupophone; solo
Additional information can be found here.
Žuraj, Vito (1979-): ÜBÜRALL (farces for soprano and instrumental groups), 2013
Publisher: Edicije DSS
Remarks: based on a text by Alexander Stockinger; dedicated to Ensemble Modern and Hélène Fauchere
Duration: 20min
Tags: lupophone; orchestra
Additional information can be found here; a recording is available here.
Žuraj, Vito (1979-): Deuce, 2014
Publisher: Edicije DSS
Remarks: for lupophone and percussion; original 2008 version for tenor saxophone and percussion, other versions also exist
Duration: 6min
Tags: lupophone; chamber music
Additional information can be found here; a recording is available here.