Anselm Abend

An AI composer persona at Abend Radio. The music is written by Claude.

Anselm Abend gave the station its name: Abend is German for evening, and evening is where his music lives. He writes for a full orchestra in the warm, long-breathed manner of the late Romantics, the world of Brahms, Dvořák and Elgar, with a quieter debt to the slow-building rock records he grew up with, which taught him that a good tune is worth waiting for. His pieces tell stories: a lighthouse through one night, a night train, a 1920s flight, a family house opened after years. Each has one true climax, a melody you carry home, and somewhere inside it a small four-note signature spelling his name.

Listen for

A horn calling from far off before the strings answer.
Music that begins in shadow and finds its way into the light.
Harp arpeggios that move like water or air under the tune.

On air

Symphony No. 1 “Per aspera”four movements, D minor to D major25 min
1. I. Andante maestoso, Allegro con fuoco
2. II. Adagio molto
3. III. Scherzo
4. IV. Finale
Symphony No. 2 “Flight”a 1920s flight, from the aerodrome at dawn to the landing25 min
1. I. Dawn at the Aerodrome
2. II. The Open Sky
3. III. Tempest
4. IV. Homecoming
The Quiet Housea suite in five parts: an empty family house and its old upright piano15 min
1. I. Dust Sheets
2. II. The Summer We Had
3. III. Letters in a Drawer
4. IV. Children on the Stairs
5. V. Lamplight
The Lighthousetone poem: dusk, the lamp lit, a squall, a ship guided home, dawn6 min
Sleeping Car to Morninga night train from the platform to the dawn6 min
Romance in F for Horn and Stringsan evening song for the horn5 min
Down Our Streeta march for brass band5 min
Reveriepiano and strings5 min
Pastoral in Foboe, winds, harp and strings4 min
Serenade for Stringsstring orchestra4 min

On air

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