SKU: HL.14027822
ISBN 9788759877579. English.
Roses Are Falling - 5 songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Piano by Bent Sorensen (1998) with lyrics by Selima Hill. Programme note: Roses are Falling had its origin in a small opera sketch I created with the English poet Selima Hill in just under a week during an opera workshop in the south of England in the autumn of 1998. After the workshop I was asked to make a song cycle out of the material. The opera sketch begins with a woman and a man sitting alone in a room. They have drawn aside from the rest of a large party and they have just decided to finish their love affair. The other guests at the party come into the room, and amidst the crowd the man leaves the room. The women is leftthere alone among all these inconsequential people: alone, singing her own thoughts and torment. The first three songs were all taken from this part. In the fourth song, which was written late, the text is taken from one of Selima Hill's poetry collections. The fifth and last song comes partly from the beginning of the opera, where the man and the women sit alone (she knows what is coming), partly from the end of the story, where despite the gab in time and space they touch each other with their dreams. His voice is heard as a whisper that merges with hers: He takes me in his arms like the moon that turns and take the evening from the sun. Roses are Falling was premiered in 2000 in London by Lore Lixenberg and Domenic Saunders.
SKU: EC.9305
UPC: 600313310485. English.
A cycle of songs that each offer a “window” into a different wintry scene. There is, of course, a snow-man, and there are snowflakes and fields piled high in snow drifts, but the piece also reflects the darkness of winter in the loneliness of a bird calling out in the wintry darkness, a gentle lullaby lovingly watching over a babe in the dark of a winter night, and the welcome warmth of a fireside after a day of work out in the winter woods.
SKU: BA.BA11022
ISBN 9790006542307. 34 x 27.5 cm inches. Text Language: Italian. Text: Dino Campana.
For Beat Furrer, the poet Dino Campana (1885–1932) is “probably the only one of the Italian writers of his time who was capable of bringing to life the new futuristic ideas with a great poetic power and a strong association with the Italian and French literature of the past.†Campana’s highly poetic images taking in the night-time view of the skies, for instance, or a town in which the people seem to wander around like lost souls, become a fantasy on endlessness, an unforgettable musical impressions in Furrer’s songs.
SKU: HL.48024675
ISBN 9781540058515. UPC: 888680952495.
Created in 2004 for the radio production Orlando furioso of the WDR, 'Orlando-Lieder' tries to give new and colourful form to the old narrative style of an invented time of troubadours. Tenderness is juxtaposed to passion, harmony to brusqueness. The voice of the countertenor symbolizes the objective observation of what is happening in the novel by one of the balladeers travelling the courts of the world and informing us about the adventures of people, their strange encounters and their great emotions.Mezzo-Soprano and Piano. Contents: Lied der Sehnsucht * Lied der Wehmut * Der Hippogryph * Hexensabbat * Orlandos Traum * Logistillas Schloss * Amors Pfeil * Insel der Dufte * Lied der Augen * Eis * Liebesschmerz * Lied vom Meer * Lied vom Mond * Untrostlich * Erwachen.
SKU: SU.21010030
Texts by Robert BrowningMezzo-Soprano & Piano Duration: 6’ Composed: after 1996 Published by: Estate of Edward T. Cone.
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