Brian Cherney - Works

Works

Orchestra

• Variations for Orchestra (1967)
• Seven Images for Twenty Two Players (1971)
• Adieux (1980)
• In the Stillness Between (1982)
• Into the Distant Stillness (1984)
• Illuminations (1987)
• Transfiguration (1990)
• Et la solitude dérive au fil des fleuves... (1995)

Concertante

• Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (1963)
• Six Miniatures for Oboe and Strings (1968)
• Chamber Concerto for Viola and Ten Players (1975)
• Oboe Concerto (1989)
• Et j'entends la nuit qui chante dans les cloches (1990)

Instrumental ensemble

• Kontakion, Quiet Music for Eleven Players (1969)
• Apparitions (1991)
• In the Stillness of September 1942 (1992)
• Die Klingende Zeit (1993–1994)

Chamber music

• Sonata for violin and piano (1961)
• Quintet for saxophone and string quartet (1962)
• Woodwind Quintet (1965)
• Interlude and Variations for woodwind quintet (1965)
• String Quartet No.1 (1966)
• Six Miniatures for oboe and piano (1968)
• String Quartet No.2 (1970)
• Notturno for piano and woodwind quintet (1974)
• String Trio (1976)
• Group Portrait - With Piano for piano and woodwind quintet (1978)
• Beyond the Seventh Palace for viola and percussion (1982)
• Accord for accordion, oboe and cello (1985)
• Triolet for flute, harp and bassoon (1980)
• Playing for Time for oboe, percussion and piano (1981)
• Gan Eden for violin and piano (1983)
• River of Fire for oboe d'amore and harp (1983)
• String Quratet No.3 (1985)
• In Stillness Ascending for viola and piano (1986)
• In the Stillness of the Summer Wind for oboe and string quartet (1987)
• Trois petites pièces désséchées... En forme de sandwich for viola and piano (1979)
• Le fil d'ariane for guitar and percussion (1988)
• Dunkle Stimmen... Am Rande der Nacht for violin, cello and contrabass (1988)
• Dopplegänger for two flutes (1991)
• Like Ghosts from an Enchanter Fleeing for cello and piano (1993)
• String Quartet No.4 (1994)
• In the Great Museum of our Memory for bass oboe and bass clarinet (1994)
• Echoes in the Memory for clarinet, cello and piano (1997)
• Entendre marcher un ange... for flute and percussion (1998)
• Qui entendrait le cri d'un ange dans les ténèbres? for clarinet, ondes Martenot and cello (1998)
• Music for a Summer Wedding for flute, viola and harp (2000–2002)
• String Quartet No. 6 (2009)

Music for instrumental solo

• Mobile II for cello (1968)
• Mobile IIIa for oboe (1970)
• Tangents I for cello (1975)
• Tangents II for oboe (1976)
• Seven Miniatures in the Form of a Mobile for viola (1978)
• Études for oboe (1979)
• Gothic Scenes and Interludes for organ (1983–1987)
• Epitaph for English horn (1986)
• Déploration for harpsichord (1988)
• Shekhinah for viola (1988)
• Doppelgänger, version for flute solo (1992)
• In the Stillness of Eden for violin (1992)
• Le dernier cri for trumpet (1992)
• The Return of Ulysses for alto saxophone (1992)
• Music for a Solitary Cellist for cello (1993)
• In the Great Museum of our Memory for bass oboe (1994)
• Jam for Frances for trombone (1997)
• Incantation for flute (1999)
• Quelques pensées sur le 300e anniversaire du voloncelle Carlo Tonini d'Antonio Lysy... for cello (2003)

Piano

• Six Miniatures (1965)
• Sonata (1966)
• Jest (1967)
• Intervalls, Patterns, Shapes (1968)
• Pieces for Young Pianists (3 volumes) (1968)
• Dans le crépuscule de souvenir, 5 pieces (1977–1980)
• In the Stillness of the Seventh Autumn (1983)
• Quelques fois, à l'ombre de la nuit... au lointain... (1991–1992)
• Tombeau, 7 pieces (1996)

Vocal music

• Two Songs for soprano and chamber orchestra (1963)
• Mobile IV, text by Tu Fu, for soprano and chamber ensemble (1969)
• Eclipse, text by Brian Hendersen, for soprano and chamber ensemble (1972)
• Three Songs to Texts by Paul Celan, for soprano and piano (2007)