RICO GERBER
"my favourite sound is silence"
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PIANO SOLO
four very quiet little preludes
falling leaves
i ching (64 pieces for piano)
in a wood
irregular dances
laments and paeans
landscape
let winter's sun
midwinter suite
looking at the moon
music
ophelia
3 pieces for clavichord: perhaps they are dancing
sometimes at night
when winter comes
prelude 1
quietly
rain in the autumn garden
ripples
ritual of grief
the seasons
sonata for piano 1
sonata for piano 2
songs
singing to the sky
the wind plays on the meadow
variations on "sakura"
variations on the theme by paganini (duet, trio)
vision
waka
6 little pieces to poems by bernard ward: hearing a black bird
rain in the small hours
rain soothes her
she touches his face
their gazes
you look up
8 haiku
4 studies
early firelies
phase breaks
piano piece1
piano piece 2
piano piece 3
archaic remnants
suite for harpsichord
PIANO AND ORCHESTRA
piano concerto
a la vita (w/ solo viola)
sky above (chamber orch. and piano)
VIOLIN
sonata for violin and piano
violin concerto (quiet moon)
violin concerto (nachtgesang)
a song more silent (vln. pno.)
unbearable grief (vln. pno.)
VIOLA
sonata for viola and piano(also for 'cello + piano)
'CELLO
sonata for 'cello and piano
8 haiku for 'cello and piano
GUITAR
blues
10 interludes
waltz
HARP (CELTIC)
cuckoo's lament
2 harp pieces
procedures
ratios1
variations on "sakura"
VOCAL (SOLO) WITH PIANO
3 little songs (bernard ward)
2 cummings songs
dew falling
there is a drought in us
in place of absence
it's all I have to bring to-day (yet another version using poem by Emily Dickinson)
the grey arches
4 folk songs arrangements: ye banks and braes
the keel row
lullaby
early one morning
5 pentatonic songs
haiku for liz
small harvest
CHORAL
alleluia
it's all I have to bring to-day (SATB)
it's all I have to bring to-day (4 solo sops.) a completely different
song on the same poem by Emily Dickinson
5 cummings poems: SATB, clarinet and piano
may my heart
o sweet spontaneous earth
o the sun comes up-up-up
the first of all my dreams
humble one
o nobillissima veriditas SATB and organ
'tis the gift SSA
lullaby SSA
eucharist SATB
songs of cornwall SATB/SSAA
ukuthula SATB/SSAA
verses from the "rubaiyat" TTBB and orchestra
if i can stop one heart from breaking (SATB, trumpet and organ)
ENSEMBLE
the rituals of birds ("requiem")
1914 - 2014 (str orch)
3 chinese poems (ww,perc.kbds)
5 (kbds)
7 (kbds)
8 (kbds)
10 (kbds)
11 (kbds)
13 (kbds)
nocturnes (kbds)
om mani padme hum (kbds)
seachains (kbds)
songs for a bright morning (kbds)
the eternal notes of sadness (kbds)
threnodies (kbds)
passacaglia (4 vlns and cont.)
quartet for the healing of our world (kbds)
the apple on it's bough (cmbr orch)
autumn concerto (str orch)
concerto grosso (str orch)
dance suite for percussion
danse profane (fl. ob. hn. gt. str qrt. perc)
elusive creatures (chamber ensemble)
extreme weather conditions (septet)
empty hills (tuned perc)
etude (str)
forestmusic (str qrt. vib. tub bls.)
fragile gestures (str qrt)
songs and dances for gaia (orch)
leaves falling, rain falling (vln. 'clo. 2fl.cl.perc.)
variations on a theme by handel (str. ww. perc)
piano quartet
string quartet 1
string quartet 2
string quartet 3
string quintet 1
string trio 1
symphony 1
symphony 2
symphony 3
threads (strs)
threnos (strs)
trio (vln. vla. 'clo)
twisting times and turning (wind band)
the whim of the wind (japanese instruments)
I hear they call life the only refuge (strs. solo vln. vla. 'clo.)
viola concerto
dream path (str. qrt)
winter moon (str. qrt)
a solitary moon floats (pno. str. qrt)
opera (strings, piano, percussion and soprano)
i feel a glimmer of clarity (str.qrt. harp. vibr.)
threnos for the innocents (orchestra)
autumn evening (erhu, viola, vibraphone and piano)
lullaby (oboe and strings)
variations on a theme by paganini (chamber orch.)
how sorrowful this world is (str. qrt. and piano)
ORGAN
autumn
winter
spring
summer
paean
ritual
toccata
threnody
trios
