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Michael Hersch: Violin Concerto - first movement

Lucerne Festival
Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin
Gregor Mayrhofer, conductor
Michael Hersch: the script of storms
songs for soprano and orchestra (excerpt)

The second song from Michael Hersch's "the script of storms" songs for soprano and orchestra after texts of Fawzi Karim.
Ah Young Hong, soprano
Tito Muñoz, conductor
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Michael Hersch: A Forest of Attics (first movement)
for clarinet, bassoon, horn, percussion, piano, violin, viola, cello, 2 double basses

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin
Michael Wendeberg, piano
Members of the Berlin Philharmonic
recorded live at the Berliner Philharmonie - 23 January 2022
Michael Hersch: "the weather and landscape are on our side" - (score)

eleven fragments after texts of Bruno Schulz
for unaccompanied violin
Miranda Cuckson, violin
Michael Hersch: POPPAEA - Scene V excerpt

Produced and Commissioned by the Wien Modern and ZeitRäume Basel Festivals in a co-production with the Network for the Development for Multiple Music Theater Formats / Gare du Nord Basel
Video by Prismago
Michael Hersch: POPPAEA - Scene VI excerpt

Produced and Commissioned by the Wien Modern and ZeitRäume Basel Festivals in a co-production with the Network for the Development for Multiple Music Theater Formats / Gare du Nord Basel
Video by Prismago
Michael Hersch recital excerpt

Michael Hersch performing from his "The Vanishing Pavilions" live at the DiMenna Center for Classical Music in 2013.
POPPAEA - trailer (courtesy of ZeitRäume Basel - Biennale für neue Musik und Architektur)

Trailer for new opera POPPAEA commissioned by Wien Modern and ZeitRäume Basel premiere performances in Basel and Vienna - September/November 2021
Production Wien Modern and ZeitRäume Basel in a co-production with the Network for the Development for Multiple Music Theater Formats / Gare du Nord Basel
video by Prismago - used with permission
Michael Hersch: cortex and ankle: songs after texts of Christopher Middleton [score]

Ah Young Hong, soprano
Ensemble Klang
Michael Hersch: ... das Rückgrat berstend
for violin/speaker and cello [score]

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin/voice
Jay Campbell, cello
Michael Hersch - sew me into a shroud of leaves
[parts I, II & III complete]

Part I - The Vanishing Pavilions
Michael Hersch, piano
Part II - Last Autumn
Jamie Hersch, horn; Mariel Roberts, cello
Part III - one day may become menace
Jacob Rhodebeck, piano
Michael Hersch: AGATHA
for three soloists and ensemble

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin/Narrator
Ah Young Hong, soprano/Agatha
Reto Bieri, clarinet/Quintianus
Tito Muñoz, conductor
James Matthew Daniel, video direction/design
Katie Spelman, choreography
Jennifer Florentino, dance
Camerata Bern
recorded live in Bern, Switzerland on February 21, 2020
Michael Hersch - On the Threshold of Winter (complete)
a monodrama in two acts

Directed by James Matthew Daniel
Ah Young Hong, soprano
Tito Muñoz, conductor
Nunc (Miranda Cuckson, artistic director)
On the Threshold of Winter (2020 trailer) - Ah Young Hong/Cantata Profana

Cantata Profana presents Michael Hersch's "On the Threshold of Winter"
Ah Young Hong, director/soprano
April 16-18, 2020
Michael Hersch: Images from a Closed Ward
live with video projections

FLUX Quartet
Video Design by James Matthew Daniel
Edited by Richard Anderson
Live from the 2018 Ojai Festival
Michael Hersch/Gary Louie

Michael Hersch and Gary Louie perform a movement from Hersch's "of ages manifest," live at the 2018 Ojai Music Festival.
Miranda Cuckson and Michael Hersch at National Sawdust

Miranda Cuckson and Michael Hersch perform Hersch at National Sawdust in Brooklyn, NY
September 18, 2018
Michael Hersch: Zwischen Leben und Tod - movement 3

twenty two pieces after images by Peter Weiss
Jennifer Choi, violin
Julia Den Boer, piano
Live at the Peabody Institute
February 1, 2019
Michael Hersch: I hope we get a chance to visit soon (excerpt)

from the 2018 Ojai Music Festival
Ah Young Hong / Kiera Duffy, sopranos
Tito Muñoz, conductor
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Michael Hersch: The Vanishing Pavilions - mvt. II
artwork Fraddosio/Mazur

MIchael Hersch, piano
Artwork by Antonio Bernardo Fraddosio and Michael Mazur
Film by Tim Holt
Michael Hersch: Images From a Closed Ward (excerpt)

an excerpt from Michael Hersch's string quartet "Images From a Closed" from a live performance by the FLUX Quartet in Baltimore, MD
production directed by James Matthew Daniel with photography of Gardin, Cooke and others
artwork by Michael Mazur
poetry by Robert Lowell
Michael Hersch: cortex and ankle - movement X

after texts of Christopher Middleton
Ensemble Klang / Ah Young Hong, soprano
Michael Hersch: Images From a Closed Ward (complete)

complete revised version
FLUX Quartet
Michael Hersch: das Rückgrat berstend
for violin/speaker and cello

Patricia Kopatchinskaja, violin/speaker
Jay Campbell, cello
text by Christopher Middleton
translation into German by Wolfgang Justen
Park Avenue Armory, NYC
Ensemble Klang performs the music of Michael Hersch

Ensemble Klang releases a new recording of two Hersch works
release date - autumn 2017
Michael Hersch: On the Threshold of Winter (trailer)

Trailer for Michael Hersch's acclaimed monodrama of 2012, "On the Threshold of Winter" in a 2015 production by James Daniel.
Ah Young Hong, soprano
Tito Munoz, conductor
NUNC - Miranda Cuckson, artistic director
Michael Hersch: the weather and landscape are on our side

Miranda Cuckson, violin
Michael Hersch: Two Lullabies - No. 2

Michael Hersch performs the second of his Two Lullabies at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University on September 21, 2016.
National Sawdust presents Michael Hersch's Zwischen Leben und Tod

On June 28, 2016 at 7:00PM National Sawdust presents the New York premiere of Michael Hersch's 90-minute work for violin and piano, Zwischen Leben und Tod: twenty-two pieces after images by Peter Weiss. Carolyn Huebl and Mark Wait perform.
Michael Hersch: "Carrion-Miles to Purgatory" for violin and cello

Violinist Annette von Hehn and cellist Stefan Heinemeyer perform the world premiere of Michael Hersch's "Carrion-Miles to Purgatory: thirteen pieces after texts of Robert Lowell" at the Library of Congress on October 16, 2015. The work was commissioned by the Library of Congress for their 90th anniversary year.
Michael Hersch: On the Threshold of Winter (a preview)

Richard Anderson interviews composer Michael Hersch and artistic director/violinist of NUNC, Miranda Cuckson, about Hersch's recent monodrama for soprano and ensemble, "On the Threshold of Winter" before the premiere of the piece at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in June 2014.
Michael Hersch: Last Autumn (recording trailer)

In spring 2015, Innova Records releases Michael Hersch's acclaimed two-hour work for horn and cello, "Last Autumn," as performed by Jamie Hersch and Daniel Gaisford.
Michael Hersch plays Josquin des Prez

Josquin des Prez (ca.1450-1521) - "Je ne me puis tenir d'aimer"
arrangement for solo piano by Michael Hersch
Michael Hersch, piano
Michael Hersch: "in the snowy margins" for unaccompanied violin

Miranda Cuckson, violin
Michael Hersch: "of ages manifest" for unaccompanied saxophone - movement no. 7

Gary Louie, saxophone
Michael Hersch: Fourteen Pieces for Unaccompanied Violin After Texts of Primo Levi, Nos. 13 & 14

Peter Sheppard Skaerved, violin
Michael Hersch: The Vanishing Pavilions - Movement No. 29

Michael Hersch, piano
The Transit Circle Contemporary Music Series
Live Performance - October 18, 2011
Michael Hersch: "After Hölderlin's 'Hälfte des Lebens'" for viola and cello

Miranda Cuckson, viola
Julia Bruskin, cello
October 18, 2011
The Transit Circle Contemporary Music Series
Josquin / Hersch: De Profundis Clamavi

Josquin des Prez (c.1450-1521): De Profundis Clamavi
arrangement for solo piano by Michael Hersch (2003)
Michael Hersch, piano
From the recording: Hersch-Josquin-Rihm-Feldman
Vanguard Classics / ATM-CD-1558
Michael Hersch: Two Pieces for Cello and Piano - movement no. 2

Daniel Gaisford, cello
Michael Hersch, piano
The first part of this small film contains images of work by sculptor Christopher Cairns set against a backdrop of silence. The second part of the film is a complete performance of the second of Michael Hersch's "Two Pieces for Cello and Piano", as performed by cellist Daniel Gaisford and the composer in the studio space on May 7, 2011.
Michael Hersch: The Vanishing Pavilions
Movement No. 27

Michael Hersch, piano
Filmed at the Peabody Conservatory, 2011
Michael Hersch: The Vanishing Pavilions
Movement No. 6

Michael Hersch, piano
Filmed at the Peabody Conservatory, 2011

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