SSATB Choir, Piano -
Level 3
SKU:
CA.925000
Composed by
Henri Duparc. Arranged by
Denis Rouger. Separate
edition to the CD.
Lieder, Secular choral
music. Full Score.
Duration 5 minutes. Carus
Verlag #CV 09.250/00.
Published by Carus Verlag
(CA.925000).
ISBN
M-007-24902-1. Key: E
flat major. Language:
French. Text: Baudelaire,
Charles.
The
harmonic turns and piano
configurations in La vie
anterieure - the former
life - seem almost
exuberantly lyrical. At
the beginning, the
archaic sounds and words
of the male choir conjure
up a dream world that is
soon flooded with the
power of the waves and
the rich polyphonic
harmony of the choir and
the piano. With the
outcry C'est la que j'ai
vecu! [I have lived
there] which expresses
the fervent yearning to
return to a past life,
the collective
desperately reinforces
the longing for the past.
Once more, the women's
choir conjures up this
lost paradise in an
undulating soft sound
before the desolate
sadness is pierced by the
power of the music of the
piano postlude, creating
a moment that is
completely in the
present.
