Mezzo-Soprano and Piano
SKU: HL.14027822
Composed by Bent
Sorensen. Music Sales
America. Classical. Book
[Softcover]. 21 pages.
Music Sales #KP01105.
Published by Music Sales
(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.
