SKU: HL.49047362

ISBN 9798350124842. UPC: 196288207597.

The choice of 16th century texts, by Bronzino and Battiferri, reflects the interests of the dedicatee of these sonnets - Craig Hugh Smyth, a fine art historian and former director of the Villa I Tatti, who was a specialist in Bronzino and Pontormo. Bronzino's sonnet is a lament on the death of Pontormo, his teacher; Laura Battiferri's poem is a direct response to that of Bronzino. As I was also asked to set sonnets by Petrarca, I chose two of his closely linked sonnets, numbers 229 and 230 in the Rime Sparse. I had written a work for I Tatti some five years earlier setting Petrarca (â??A qualunque animaleâ?, the first in my Fourth Book of Madrigals) and was familiar with the context. However, through correspondence with Kathryn Bosi, Music Librarian at I Tatti and, through her, Craig Smyth's family, I became increasingly aware of his unusual and quite special character. From his undergraduate days at Princeton and indeed throughout his life, although a great scholar and writer, he was at the same time an aficionado of jazz, loving above all Louis Armstrong, being photographed with Duke Ellington, taking his children to see Thelonious Monk, listening to Ben Webster and playing the tenor saxophone himself. Indeed, he had told Kathryn Bosi that he had been proud to walk in procession at the funerals of black musicians in New Orleans. In some ways his life was almost an obverse mirror image of parts of my own - I was a professional jazz musician but found myself teaching art history for a time. As Fiorella Superbi of I Tatti has said: Craig was a maestro di vita. I raise a glass in his memory and dedicate these sonnets to him. Gavin Bryars.

SKU: BT.DHP-1115104-010

9x12 inches.

Odelettesis the title of a cycle of poems by the 19th-century French writer, Gérard de Neval. In his work, Trois Odelettes, Jacob de Haan set three of de Neval’s poems to music for soprano voice and concert band: Une Allée du Luxembourg describes a fleeting moment of love; Espagne is a typically sounding ode to Spain; and Chanson Gothique describes the joy of life itself.

Odelettesis de titel van een reeks gedichten uit de negentiende eeuw van de Fransman Gérard de Nerval. Met Trois Odelettes verklankte Jacob de Haan speciaal voor sopraan en orkest drie gedichten uit de cyclus. Une Alléedu Luxembourg beschrijft een vluchtig moment van liefde. Espagne is een ode aan Spanje met een Arabisch tintje. Met Chanson Gothique koos Jacob de Haan tenslotte een gedicht over de levensvreugde. Alle drie practig!

Odelettes ist der Titel einer Gedichtreihe des Franzosen Gérard de Nerval aus dem 19. Jahrhundert. Jacob de Haan vertonte in Trois Odelettes drei Gedichte aus diesem Zyklus für eine Sopran-Singstimme und Blasorchester: Une Allée du Luxembourg beschreibt eine flüchtigen Moment der Liebe, Espagne ist eine typisch spanische - mit einem arabischem Hauch - vertonte Ode an Spanien. Mit Chanson Gothique wählte Jacob de Haan zuletzt ein Gedicht über die Lebensfreude.

Odelettes est le nom du recueil de poèmes de Gérard de Nerval, poète français du XIXe siècle. Souffrant les tourments de la psychose, Nerval, poète maudit, vivait dans le royaume de son imagination, s’identifiant des princes de contes de fées et des héros orientaux. Son oeuvre restreinte, mais sublime, a profondément inspiré les poètes symbolistes et surréalistes. Jacob de Haan a composé des thèmes en osmose avec les rythmes des poèmes : Une Allée du Luxembourg, Espagne et Chanson Gothique, pour soprano solo et orchestre d’harmonie.

Odelettes è il titolo di una serie di poemi del XIX° secolo di Gérard de Nerval. Jacob de Haan ha raccolto in Trois Odelettes altrettanti poemi da questo ciclo per soprano solo e banda. Une Allée du Luxembourg descrive un momento sfuggevole dell’amore, Espagne è un omaggio tipicamente spagnolo, ma con accenti arabi, alla Spagna. Con Chanson Gothique Jacob de Haan ha scelto un racconto sulla gioia di vivere.