SKU: HL.49046475

ISBN 9781705102701. UPC: 842819108702. 7.5x10.75x0.05 inches.

Mother Teresa liked to surprise people she met by giving them a small card printed with five concise sentences instead of a calling card. The brief text on the card beginning with the line “The fruit of silence is prayer” was a summary of her vision of devout, peace-promoting philanthropy in poetical form. In 2013, I created a musical setting of Mother Teresa's “Prayer of Peace” which was commissioned by the Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival for mixed choir a cappella (C 55851) in the form of a densely woven elegiac sound stream. Slightly later, I extended the work to produce a version with piano (C 56345) which in turn became the basis for a setting scored for mixed choir with string orchestra which was first performed in Riga in October 2014. In 2015, the versions for piano quintet (ED 22450) and string quartet (ED 22723) also permitted my musical setting of Mother Teresa's words to be performed without choir in two traditional genres of chamber music. The current published version for mixed choir and organ extends the work series through a further conventional scoring.

SKU: HL.49018711

ISBN 9790001145190. UPC: 884088794019. 9.25x12.0x0.244 inches. English.

In a magazine with reports on mental institutions, Thomas Larcher came across interviews with patients: 'These sentences are of a strong inner power, yet do not claim to convey an overall picture of these people. There rather appear snatches from their world like a stroboscope.' The soprano part in Larcher's composition attends to these texts in a very restraint, often introverted manner, but they continue to have an effect in the instrumental parts, like catalysts of seemingly disturbing processes. The world premiere with Juliane Banse, Christian Tetzlaff, Nikolaj Schneider and the composer on the piano took place at the renowned festival 'Spannungen' in the power station of Heimbach in 2002. Recently, a recording has been released by ECM New Series.

SKU: HL.362214

UPC: 840126952704. 10.5x14.0x0.129 inches.

Full Score. Songs of Solitude and Night is in two movements. The first movement has text from Voluspa from the Old Edda, and is called Prelude. The text is about creation of the earth, the stars, the sun, the moon and the first people on earth, Ask and Embla. The second movement is a poem by the Faroese author William Heinesen translated into English by the Faroese author Gunnar Hoydal and is called Hogboy. The poem begins like this: Hogboy, the spectre with the cheery name, lives in the mound Maeis Hove in the Orkney island of Pomona. Here you can hear him singing bewildered songsin the dark. Playful Pomona girls are dancing in the moonlight around the old grave..

SKU: HL.362212

UPC: 840126952681. 10.5x14.0x0.036 inches.

Solo recorder part. Songs of Solitude and Night is in two movements. The first movement has text from Voluspa from the Old Edda, and is called Prelude. The text is about creation of the earth, the stars, the sun, the moon and the first people on earth, Ask and Embla. The second movement is a poem by the Faroese author William Heinesen translated into English by the Faroese author Gunnar Hoydal and is called Hogboy. The poem begins like this: Hogboy, the spectre with the cheery name, lives in the mound Maeis Hove in the Orkney island of Pomona. Here you can hear him singing bewildered songsin the dark. Playful Pomona girls are dancing in the moonlight around the old grave..