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: M7.AST-239

ISBN 9790203892885. German.

In vier Liedern für Sopran und Klavier verarbeitet Peter Michael Braun das Märchen um die 'Schöne Lau' von Eduard Mörike - jeder Teil ist einer anderen Figur zugeordnet und hat einen eigenen musikalischen Charakter.

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.'.

SKU: HL.49046394

ISBN 9781540086570. UPC: 840126910186. 9.0x12.0 inches.

In 2010 I lived in Rome as a Villa Massimo scholarship holder. During my time there I came across a few poems by Michelangelo that touched me a lot and soon had the plan to set some of them to music. But I wanted to combine it with something contemporary - just like in Rome the old and the new always meet. The poet Marcel Beyer, whom I met in Rome, then wrote the cycle of poems Die Grillmeisterin for me, which takes up many motifs from the Michelangelo texts (fire, tears, getting burned, loneliness, etc.). I then alternately combined this cycle of poems with the Michelangelo poems. The Italian songs have a sometimes melancholy, sometimes dramatic character, while the German songs are rather bizarre, sometimes even humorous. Despite these contrasts in character, there are also many musical connections between the German and Italian songs. Individual motifs and chord sequences sometimes return in completely different contexts, and there is even a direct connection between the first and last song, in that the same vocal line is underlaid with a completely different text. This creates a musical framework that holds the very heterogeneous selection of texts together. -Anno Schreier.

SKU: HL.50486596

ISBN 9790080145418. UPC: 884088200237. 9.0x12.0x0.049 inches. Hungarian, English. Zsolt Serei.

Composed in 1996-1997 to verses by the 7th-century Chinese poet Li Tai-Po. The atmosphere of these songs, linked into a unified cycle by their shared sound system and connecting piano sections, is characterized by a fragile equilibrium of fantasy-like, extreme emotional states.