SKU: HL.49046394

ISBN 9781540086570. UPC: 840126910186. 9.0x12.0 inches.

In 2010 I lived in Rome as a Villa Massimo scholarship holder. During my time there I came across a few poems by Michelangelo that touched me a lot and soon had the plan to set some of them to music. But I wanted to combine it with something contemporary - just like in Rome the old and the new always meet. The poet Marcel Beyer, whom I met in Rome, then wrote the cycle of poems Die Grillmeisterin for me, which takes up many motifs from the Michelangelo texts (fire, tears, getting burned, loneliness, etc.). I then alternately combined this cycle of poems with the Michelangelo poems. The Italian songs have a sometimes melancholy, sometimes dramatic character, while the German songs are rather bizarre, sometimes even humorous. Despite these contrasts in character, there are also many musical connections between the German and Italian songs. Individual motifs and chord sequences sometimes return in completely different contexts, and there is even a direct connection between the first and last song, in that the same vocal line is underlaid with a completely different text. This creates a musical framework that holds the very heterogeneous selection of texts together. -Anno Schreier.

SKU: HL.50494746

DRAMMA LIRICO IN UN FRAMMENTO (DA VARAGINE A MICHELANGELO A SOFOCLE).

SKU: HL.49046316

ISBN 9781540072108. UPC: 842819110149. 8.25x11.75x0.301 inches.

Madonna of Silence is far from the quiet piece implied by the title. Indeed, it reflects the inner turbulence of Michelangelo's extraordinary drawing Madonna del Silenzio on which the work is based. Michelangelos drawing has informed every aspect of my new work, which I have decided not to call trombone concerto, but a drama for trombone and orchestra. The trombone takes on many roles: at the start it represents the quiet, inner voice of the Madonna as she gazes in contemplation at the child, later singing a hymn and, towards the end of the work, lamentations. Both soloist and orchestra are equally engaged in the unfolding drama of a scene brimming with unease and premonitions. John Casken.

SKU: M7.DOHR-28823

ISBN 9790202018231.

[Motto] Girolamo Crescentini (1762-1846): Mi lagnerò tacendo. Arietta (vor 1806). Erstausgabe [11] Nizza - Canzonetta (um 1835). Moderne Erstausgabe [11a] Nizza (deutsche Textfassung) [11b] Nizza (deutsche Textfassung) [11c] Mi lagnerò tacendo (Rekonstruktion) [12] Mi lagnerò tacendo (Februar 1835). Moderne Erstausgabe [13] Mi lagnerò tacendo (26. Mai 1845). Erstausgabe [14] Adieux à la via! - Elégie (sur une seule note) (vor 1864). Neuausgabe [14a] Mi lagnerò tacendo (sopra una sola nota) (Variante; vor 1864). Neuausgabe ANHANG [2a] Sorzico (Variante; 27. Juli 1856). Erstausgabe [6b] La partenza (vor 1816). Moderne Erstausgabe [6c] La partenza (Variante mit Klavierbegleitung von Carlo Michelangelo Sola; zwischen 1816 und 1821?). Moderne Erstausgabe Der Band enthält ein ausführliches Nachwort nebst kritischem Bericht.

SKU: HL.49046753

ISBN 9781705154229. UPC: 196288021810.

With the Petrarch settings, I am continuing my preoccupation with classical Italian literature, after setting Michelangelo in 2011 and Ariosto in 2013. The gesture and harmony of the piece are developed entirely from the text and from the sensations that are expressed there. Petrarch's poetry is an exploration of beauty and pain that begins again and again: beauty that lies in pain and pain that is causedby beauty. Anno Schreier.