SKU: PR.111403210

UPC: 680160687947.

With an original text by the composer, Nkeiru Okoye’s WE MET AT THE SYMPHONY is a monodrama in three songs for soprano and string quartet or piano. The songs tell the story of a Black woman surprised to find a Black man in the sea of white faces at an orchestra concert, their subsequent romance, and her struggle to trust another Black man after betrayal and heartbreak. Okoye’s poignant, insightful, and sharp-witted poetry is set to dramatic and striking music that blends sensibilities from jazz, Broadway, and contemporary classical styles, with an unforgettable solo role for the soprano.

SKU: BA.BA07785

ISBN 9790006521692. 34 x 25.5 cm inches. Text Language: English. Text: Edward Estlin Cummings.

SKU: BA.BA01116

ISBN 9790006408405. 27 x 19 cm inches. Text: Hermann Claudius.

The German composer and music teacher Karl Marx wrote these new songs for soprano solo and piano after poems by Hermann Claudius op. 29.

Included are the following songs:
– Mein Lied: Der Wind der weht
– Auf eine kranke Rose: Ist das in dir der Mensch
– Sommerbeet: Es drängt sich auf den Beeten
– Der alte Turm und die Schwalben haben einander gern
– Der alte Turm und die Schwalben haben einander gern
– Auf Brümmerhoff: Es blinken in der Sonne die grünen Gräser (auch Duett [SA])
– Im Januar
– Tage der Gnade brechen herein
– Dezembertag: Des Nordens Wunder ist der Winter
– Im Januar: Zu den winterkahlen Zweigen
– Lied an meinem Tische: Tagtäglich bietest du dich dar

SKU: BA.BA09323

ISBN 9790006532575. 32.7 x 26 cm inches. Language: German.

World Premiere 28/08/2004, Hamburg.

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.'.