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- Rolf Wallin
Drei Gedichte von Rainer Maria Rilke (ensemble version) (2007)
- Chester Music Ltd (World)
Versions also available for medium or high voice and piano
- 1(pic)111/1110/perc/pf/str(1.1.1.1.1)
- Soprano
- 11 min
- Rilke
- German
Programme Note
These three poems were written between 1900 and 1908, and they are very different in terms of form, subject matter, and atmosphere. Liebes-Lied is about a strong but painful love, Buddha in der Glorie, a description of religious ecstasy, quite unusual in the works of Rilke, and Sluss-stück, about death, which exists in the midst of us, in the middle of life.
The work with the songs was a part of a process that occupied me a lot for a period. Is it possible to approach the melodic element in a new way, after many years of letting it live in the shadows of other musical elements, such as rhythm, timbre and form? This is a possible solution.
Programme note © 2007 Rolf Wallin
The work with the songs was a part of a process that occupied me a lot for a period. Is it possible to approach the melodic element in a new way, after many years of letting it live in the shadows of other musical elements, such as rhythm, timbre and form? This is a possible solution.
Programme note © 2007 Rolf Wallin
Media
Drei Gedichte von Rainer Maria Rilke; Liebes-Lied
Drei Gedichte von Rainer Maria Rilke; Buddha in der Glorie
Drei Gedichte von Rainer Maria Rilke; Sluss-stück
Scores
Discography
Wire and String
- LabelStore Studio
- Catalogue NumberPPC 9063
- ConductorChristian Eggen
- EnsembleBodø Sinfonietta
- SoloistSusanne Lundeng (violin), Siri Torjesen (soprano)