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Brett Dean

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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 Composers award, the piano quintet Voices of Angels and Twelve Angry Men, written for the 12 cellists of the Berliner Philharmoniker.

Top songs

  1. Komarov's Fall
  2. Viola Concerto: I. Fragment
  3. Epitaphs: III. Der Philosoph
  4. Carlo
  5. Now comes the dawn
  6. In spe contra spem, Part One: Were we but as two milkmaids - Live
  7. 3 Memorials: Ceremonial - Live
  8. The Siduri Dances
  9. Cello Concerto: Slow, spacious, and still - Live
  10. Intimate Decisions for solo Viola
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  1. Pastoral Symphony
  2. Miss Genevieve's Nocturne
  3. Viola Concerto: III. Veiled and Mysterious
  4. Amphitheatre (scene for orchestra) - Live
  5. Viola Concerto: II. Pursuit
  6. Water Music: III. Parched Earth
  7. Intimate decision for solo viola
  8. Winter Songs: I. (Introduction) - (1. "E") - (2. "N")
  9. Testament
  10. Epitaphs: I. Only I Will Know
  11. Variation for Rudi
  12. Dean: Pastoral Symphony
  13. Game Over
  14. Shadow Music: I. Prelude
  15. Epitaphs: II. Walk A Little Way With Me
  16. 12 Angry Men
  17. Shadow Music: II. Forgotten Garden
  18. To Look Yet Not Find
  19. Water Music: II. Coursing
  20. Was it a voice? (Music for Ascension Day)
  21. Intimate Decisions
  22. I. Fragment
  23. Water Music: I. Bubbling
  24. Epitaphs: V. Between The Spaces In The Sky
  25. Epitaphs: IV. György Meets The Girl Photographer
  26. Etüdenfest
  27. Shadow Music: III. Voices and Shadows
  28. Viola Concerto: Fragment - Live
  29. Moments of Bliss, Hotel Room (Awakening)
  30. Moments of Bliss, Heart of the Matter
  31. Moments of Bliss, Knocking at the Hell Gate
  32. Moments of Bliss, Family Secrets
  33. Dramatis personæ: I. Fall of a Superhero
  34. Winter Songs: I. (Introduction) - (e) - (n)
  35. Electric Preludes: 1. Abandoned Playground - Live
  36. Dramatis personæ: III. The Accidental Revolutionary
  37. Winter Songs: II. 3. "If In Beginning Twilight Winter Will Stand"
  38. The Lost Art of Letter Writing: I. Hamburg, 1854
  39. Demons
  40. …the scene of the crime…
  41. And once I played Ophelia: I. Fast, breathless
  42. Viola Concerto: Pursuit - Live
  43. Rooms of Elsinore: I. The Dark Gate
  44. Between Moments
  45. I. Bubbling
  46. Pictured Within "Birthday Variations for M.C.B": Var. 6 - Live
  47. Beggars and Angels
  48. String Quartet No. 1 "Eclipse": I. Slow and Spacious, Secretive
  49. Winter Songs: II. (If in beginning twilight winter will stand)
  50. The Lost Art of Letter Writing: IV. Jerilderie, 1879
  51. Dramatis personæ: II. Soliloquy
  52. The Lost Art of Letter Writing: III. Vienna, 1886
  53. Viola Concerto: Veiled and Mysterious - Live
  54. Winter Songs: Iii. (4. "Who Are You Little I") - (5. "N")
  55. 11 Oblique Strategies: No. 2, A Line Has Two Sides
  56. Voices of Angels: I. Evocation
  57. String Quartet No. 1 "Eclipse": III. Epilogue
  58. The Lost Art of Letter Writing: II. The Hague, 1882
  59. Piano Concert "Gneixendorf Music - A Winter Journey": III. Applause, Friends, the Comedy Is Over - Live
  60. Approach (Prelude to a Canon): III. Slightly Agitated Though Unhurried
  61. Approach (Prelude to a Canon): I. Allegro impetuoso, volatile
  62. Electric Preludes: 6. Berceuse - Live
  63. Short Stories: No. 1. Devotional
  64. Notes From The Twittersphere
  65. String Quartet No. 2 "And Once I Played Ophelia": I. Fast, Breathless
  66. Cello Concerto: Extremely intimate, yet flowing and playful - Live
  67. String Quartet No. 1 "Eclipse": II. Unlikely Flight
  68. The Players (for accordion and orchestra): Prelude - Live
  69. In spe contra spem, Part One: Full grievous is the way - Live
  70. Bliss, Act I, Scene 1, "Death and Transfiguration": Interlude I, "The Descent into Hell"
  71. Short Stories: No. 5. Arietta
  72. Night's Journey: Night´s Journey
  73. Bliss, Act I, Scene 1, "Death and Transfiguration": "Hey, listen you lot, I've something to tell you!"
  74. Vexations and Devotions: II. Bell and Anti-Bell
  75. Vexations and Devotions: III. The Path to Your Door
  76. Winter Songs: III. (Who are you little i) - (n)
  77. Cello Concerto: Slow, dreamy, unhurried - Live
  78. Amphitheatre
  79. Voices of Angels: II. Different Realms
  80. Notturno inquieto - Live
  81. 11 Oblique Strategies: No. 1, Listen to the Quiet Voice
  82. Approach (Prelude to a Canon): II. Calm, Serene
  83. Short Stories: No. 2. Premonitions
  84. Short Stories: No. 3. Embers
  85. Gertrude Fragments: I. Cast thy knighted colour off
  86. Electric Preludes: 6. Berceuse - Live from City Recital Hall, Sydney, 2013
  87. 3 Caprichos after Goya: No. 3. No te escaparas
  88. Vexations and Devotions: I. Watching Others
  89. Cello Concerto: Allegro agitato sempre - Live
  90. Rooms of Elsinore: VII. The Trumpeter's Tower

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