SKU: HL.49047364
ISBN 9798350124866. UPC: 196288207610.
Four Arms, Two Necks is a setting of a 17th century anonymous poem. The timelessness of the words in the love poem struck me and I set it to music, later dedicating the song to two friends, Anda and Bill Winters, in celebration of a wedding anniversary. Orpheus is from William ShakespeareÂ?s play The Life of King Henry VIII. Between 1996-2000, I composed and produced the music for audio recordings of all 38 Shakespeare plays in the Complete Arkangel Shakespeare collection. This song from the play was originallywritten for lute accompaniment and I later arranged the lute part for piano. Agua, Dónde Vas? is a setting of a poem by Federico GarcÃa Lorca. In 1998, I visited Barcelona to renew with a dear friend, Lucia from an illustrious family of flamenco musicians and dancers. We had met in 1985 when I first visited Granada and was hanging out in the flamenco tablaoÂ?s of the Albaicin and Granada proper. Through Lucia I got a glimpse of a world in which LorcaÂ?s poetry vibrated daily and as casually as the music, songs and rhythms that peppered and punctuated conversations, discussions, exchanges of opinions, mealtimes in homes and bars and the precious moments of just hanging out.
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.49020938
ISBN 9790200101621. 9.0x12.0x0.132 inches. German.
Two poems of Friedrich Holderlin bearing almost the same title form the basis of the text for 'Zwei Lieder' (Two Songs): 'Die Aussicht' and 'Aussicht'. Unlike as with common musical settings of poems, Detlev Muller-Siemens has split the vocal part in two levels. On the one hand, Holderlin's text is recited, on the other hand, fragments of the poems are sung at a lower, contemplative level. 'Like vague memories, ascending from the inside from afar. An idyll that becomes entangled in its own images.'.
SKU: HL.49009075
ISBN 9790001090919. UPC: 884088087227. 9.0x12.0x0.051 inches. German - Italian.
For soprano voice and piano. Text by Ludwig Andersen. German and Italian language. Edition Schott.
SKU: HL.49008582
ISBN 9790001087438. UPC: 884088060831. 9.0x12.0x0.013 inches.
For soprano voice and piano.
SKU: HL.49019163
ISBN 9790001150804. 9.0x12.0x0.163 inches. French.
SKU: HL.49045218
ISBN 9790220136146. UPC: 841886026162. 9.0x12.0x0.063 inches. English - Italian.
Water Parted is from Barrys opera The Intelligence Park, and tells the story of a composer who has lost the power to write, later rediscovering it through an obsession with a castrato. The work alternates a beautiful fragility with moments of violent, angular virtuosity: a fantastic recital piece for soprano and piano.
SKU: HL.49009220
ISBN 9790001092227. UPC: 073999342536. 9.0x12.0x0.034 inches. German - English.
Duet for soprano and mezzo-soprano with piano. Text by Adelheid Wette. German and English language.
SKU: HL.49008822
ISBN 9790001088930. UPC: 073999242331. 9.0x12.0x0.019 inches.
For mezzo-soprano and piano.
SKU: HL.49004326
ISBN 9790001044974.
SKU: HL.49006849
ISBN 9790001073530. 9.0x12.0x0.08 inches.
SKU: HL.49033271
ISBN 9790001136877. 9.0x12.0x0.088 inches. German.
Kafka's ouvre is interspersed with moments of utter anxiety. Moments in which, induced by adrenalin, the blood pressure rises. Blood vessels which seem to constrict, pump enormous quantities of blood the pressure of which might make one believe that the head is going to explode. In The Judgment, an innocent opening story leads to one of the most unusual showdowns in world literature: The beloved father sentences his son to death by drowning; the son immediately obeys since his life, his existence almost explodes, becomes blurred, dissolves at the moment the judgment is pronounced. For me, the 'self' driving him - I imagine this as a high sound in the inner ear - could only be a soprano. This is why the actual 'fall' has turned out to be clear, almost friendly and why Georg only seems to want to breathe a soft and quiet 'Dear parents, I have always loved you' during the fall while no longer keeping the singing tone, shortly before death, almost casually, takes hold of him. Christian Jost.
SKU: HL.49008899
ISBN 9790001089388.
SKU: HL.49019776
ISBN 9790220131882. UPC: 196288107361. 9.0x12.0x0.147 inches. English.
12-minute song cycle based on poems by Philip Larkin.
SKU: HL.49000539
ISBN 9790200100990. German.
SKU: HL.49005586
ISBN 9790001060240. German.
2 (2. auch Picc.) * 1 * Engl. Hr. * 2 (2. auch Bassklar.) * Altsax. * 2 (2. auch Kontrafag.) - 4 * 2 * 0 * 0 - P. S. (Trgl. * Beck. * Tamt. * Tamb. * Ruhrtr. * kl. Tr. * gr. Tr. * Glspl. * Xyl.) (3 Spieler) - Hfe. * Klav. (auch Cel.) - Str. (12 * 10 * 8 * 6 * 4).
SKU: HL.49008696
ISBN 9790001088220. 9.0x12.0x0.013 inches.
SKU: HL.49009115
ISBN 9790001091206.
SKU: HL.49008701
ISBN 9790001088268. UPC: 884088925475. 9.0x12.0x0.01 inches.
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