Piano, voice (solo and
accompaniment)
SKU:
GH.GE-11797
Version for altsolo
och piano. Composed
by Benjamin Staern.
Transtromer Settings -
Version for solo alto and
piano. With Language:
Swedish. Duration 12
minutes. Gehrmans
Musikforlag #GE 11797.
Published by Gehrmans
Musikforlag
(GH.GE-11797).
ISBN
979-0-070-11797-5. A4
inches. Text: Tomas
Transtromer.
Four
poems from The Sorrow
Gondola by Tomas
Transtromer. For song and
piano.
Transtro
mersanger
(Transtromer Settings)
was commissioned by and
dedicated to Carina
Vinke, New European
Ensemble and Christian
Karlsen. It was
originally composed for
voice and ensemble (GE
11795, consisting of
clarinet, bass clarinet,
mandolin, guitar, violin,
viola and violoncello)
and later set for voice
and piano with the
instrumental intermezzi
left out.
The
work has been widely
performed on tour with
the New European Ensemble
in the autumn of 2010 in
Sweden, and in Holland at
Pulchri Studio in The
Hague and at White Crow
Music Festival in
Leiden.
