Within its rather short duration, Ulrich Lehensteiner's "Love Caprice" depicts a variety of emotional aspects of love, so it naturally does not only feature upbeat major-passages, but also both desolate and powerfully desperate minor-passages. After a fragmented middle-section of doubtful searching and despite the previous minor, the Caprice closes with optimistic major tutti-chords, as if to say that "in the end, love is love. What can you do?"

A version for two violins & piano is also available.

A String Quartet that challenges the traditional conception of the genre as four individual voices: It drops the conventional contrapuntal treatment of the instruments in favour of their atmospherical capabilities, thus creating vast and dynamic string-soundscapes throughout its four movements: an energetically driving, yet still somewhat lyrical opening movement, a melodically focused song-like second one (based on a New-Year-song the composer wrote on New Year's Eve 2017), a strangely energetic waltz with some unusual harmonies, and an extremely powerful and pressuring finale.

A Tango-like piece for piano four-hands that, as expected, starts off with the typical rhythm-pattern, but in the middle-section briefly diverts from the usual stern rhythm with a more dreamy, melodic passage.

"More or less" of a Tango, so to say.

The "PANDAIMONIKON" (greek portmanteau: "pan", "daimon" and suffix "-ikon") is a musical depiction of a mystical encyclopedia containing the entirety of demons from all known world-mythologies, both their descriptions as well as the demons themselves. The opening chords depict the seals of the book breaking, before the demonic power is unleashed.

A radically shortened, partly Rock-inspired sonata, foregoing the traditional middle-movement in order to focus on the duality of the two outer ones: a gloomy, march-like movement that exaggerates the classic Alberti bass to a powerful rhythm-line, followed by a relentlessly pushing high-energy-movement that makes the Rock-influence apparent with its rhythmically focused main theme, continuously driving bass line and ostinato rhythm patterns.

This short and easy-to-play piece for piano four-hands was inspired by the surreal atmosphere of the track "Spirit Crucible Elpys" from Xenoblade Chronicles 2, and features some unusual harmonic shifts in its overall dreamy atmosphere, showing that even the most light-hearted daydreams can take some unexpected turns.

The "Intimate Mass" offers a traditional mass setting on a formally very reduced scope; scored for solo voice and organ, it depicts a person's inner journey from spiritual uncertainty and doubt to confidence across its five parts (while retaining the original latin-mass-text), combining traditional dramatic settings with more upbeat, pop-like elements, such as the final part, the Agnus Dei.

Both in its reduced setup as well as in its emotional subjectiveness a very "Intimate Mass".

A very dark and tumultuous piece of chamber music, with only a few bright moments.

The ominously drifting mood of the first movement is only briefly interrupted by the dreamy waltz of the second movement, followed up with an absolute forced march a finale that blasts through from start to finish with the highest energy possible. The virtuosity of the sonata lies not so much in the technically difficult figures, but in maintaining that high level of energy demanded by incessant rhythms and constant fortes throughout the entire piece that is 20 minutes of music.

a short and easy-to-play, yet emotionally very intense, mournful piece, featuring some unusual, sometimes maybe surprising harmonic changes. The uneasily driving piano-bass-line adds a sense of rhythm to the piece and contrastingly compliments the simple, legato-oriented flute-part.

"Tundra" is a miniature piano concerto with reduced orchestra-setup (strings only) in one continuous movement. Programmatically depicting a lone wanderer's walk through an icy wasteland by switching between description of the scene's hostile environment and introspection of the wanderer's inner wasteland of emotions, the piece features brilliantly virtuosic piano-passages and strong multi-layered rhythms. 

"Lunar Contemplations" is a short piece for piano solo expressing the feeling of looking up into the starry night-sky from your bedroom-window on a quiet evening. Despite its short duration, the piece features a full three-part-structure and even a cadenza-like transition.

"Nouv'amour" is a short piece for flute or recorder capturing the fleeting moment of a first spark of love igniting, featuring easy starting flute- and piano-parts with a short virtuoso middle-section.

A short fantasy for organ based on the popular Christmas carol "Angels We Have Heard On High".

A classically rooted, overall quite somber sonata, of which the first movement's gloomy mood is contrasted only by its famous middle movement, the "Souvenir of Summer", with its pensive, reminiscing character, melancholic maj7- and maj9-harmonies and focus on its simple but concise melody.

The third movement is, in typical Lehensteiner-fashion, a boisterous waltz that in its variety of rhythms, overabundant energetic drive and also technical demands toys around with the genre's established conception of light dance-music.

The work's dedication is to the composer's late grandfather, who passed away shortly after its completion at the end of summer 2019, making its middle movement not only a "Souvenir of Summer", but also of a person dearly beloved.

Composed in the first days of Lockdown back in 2020, with the then predominant sense of people longing for their loved ones who they weren't allowed to see during that time, the "Pensandoti" depicts the nostalgic longing for a beloved person who is not around, when the only thing one can do about is solely thinking about them.

A waltz-like Fantasy for piano four-hands, based on the popular tune "Leaves from the Vine" from the Nickelodeon-show "The Last Airbender". Featuring an easy-to-play, melody-driven Primo-part with occasional wide-range-arpeggios, and an accompanying Secondo that sometimes takes over the main melody. 

The "Double"-Sonata is a trio-setup-piece all about duality and contrast. Led by not just one violin but two, the roles of leading voice and accompaniment constantly switch between the three instruments.

All three movements feature two strongly contrasting themes and each of the three approaches the themes' development in a unique way.

The first movement's tension resolves in a kind of "anti-climax", a moment of greatest fragility after the built-up tension, which then returns to a (almost) note-perfect reprise of the exposition, to show that in the end nothing has changed.

The second movement even intensifies the struggle between the two themes, with ultimately one of them taking over.

In the third movement, an energetic waltz, no effort is even made to unify it's two themes, they just stand block-like against each other.

"Tundra" is a miniature piano concerto with reduced orchestra-setup (strings only) in one continuous movement. Programmatically depicting a lone wanderer's walk through an icy wasteland by switching between description of the scene's hostile environment and introspection of the wanderer's inner wasteland of emotions, the piece features brilliantly virtuosic piano-passages and strong multi-layered rhythms. 

A classic three-movement piano-sonata with a modern twist, featuring a high-energy first movement with a main theme inspired by the Netflix-series "The Witcher" that in classic sonata-form is contrasted by a major-key secondary theme, a serene second movement torn between two radically differently textured themes, and a boisterous waltz-finale that starts off very tame but gradually gets more and more exciting and virtuosic.

A rather unusual Elegy with forcefully driving rhythms, showing that lamentation does not always have to mean quiet mourning but also anger and discontent.

A virtuosic Toccata with and strong focus on rhythm. The majestic opening chords anticipate the boisterous main theme, which is then contrasted by a melodious middle section. Featuring wild chromatic shifts and scales and an unusually active pedal-part, this Toccata definitively delivers on that instrument's listener's classic expectations of drama and grandeur of that instrument.

The Remember-Waltzes are a collection of seven waltz-like pieces for piano four hands, depicting the memories of various relatable scenes of a person's everyday-life, like the fervour of a determined loved one, the sereneness of a warm summer-day or the emotional rush of an ecstatic experience. Memories some would like to experience, some might actually have experienced.

A musical reminder of times fondly remembered, but also of the feeling of how even those precious moments might grow pale over time, and how we still remember them fondly, but differently after the many years that might have passed since then.

1. Remember Her Vigour
2. Remember Those Late Summer Days
3. Remember Your Mind In Turmoil
4. Rosa
5. Remember The Ecstasy
6. Remember Oblivion
7. Remember What Is Lost

All the pieces are also available as separate editions.

A waltz-like Fantasy for piano four-hands, based on the popular tune "Toss A Coin To Your Witcher" from the Netflix-show "The Witcher".

A high-energy-waltz, featuring boisterous syncopated rhythms that challenge the traditional perception of waltzes being light and shallow easy-listenings.