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- Michael Nyman
Six Celan Songs (1990)
- Chester Music Ltd (World)
- alto/pf
- also available for alto and ensemble
- 33 min
- Paul Celan
- German
Programme Note
This cycle of settings of poems by Paul Celan was written between May and July 1990 for Ute Lemper. The texts are taken from the following collections: 'Chanson einer Dame im Schatten' and 'Corona' from Mohn und Gedachtnis (1952), 'Nachtlich geschurzt' from Von Schwelle zu Schwelle (1955), 'Blume' from Sprachgitter (1959), and 'Es war Erde in ihnen' and 'Psalm' from Die Niemandsrose of 1963.
The settings of 'Corona' and 'Blume' both introduce an eight-bar chord sequence derived from Chopin's Mazurka in A minor, Op.17 No.4 (the introduction to which was used by Gorecki in his Symphony No.3). During the writing of 'Blume', on 7th June 1990, my mother died, and the cycle is dedicated to her memory.
© Michael Nyman
The settings of 'Corona' and 'Blume' both introduce an eight-bar chord sequence derived from Chopin's Mazurka in A minor, Op.17 No.4 (the introduction to which was used by Gorecki in his Symphony No.3). During the writing of 'Blume', on 7th June 1990, my mother died, and the cycle is dedicated to her memory.
© Michael Nyman
Media
Six Celan Songs (Paul Celan): 1. Chanson einer Dame im Schatten
Six Celan Songs (Paul Celan): 2. Es war Erde in ihnen
Six Celan Songs (Paul Celan): 3. Psalm
Six Celan Songs (Paul Celan): 4. Corona
Six Celan Songs (Paul Celan): 5. Nächtlich geschürzt
Six Celan Songs (Paul Celan): 6. Blume
Scores
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Discography
Songbook
- LabelLondon, Argo
- EnsembleMichael Nyman Band
- SoloistMichael Nyman and Ute Lemper
- Released10th March 1992
- LabelMN Records
- Catalogue NumberMNRCD108
- ConductorMichael Nyman
- EnsembleMichael Nyman Band / Michael Nyman String Quartet
- SoloistHilary Summers, alto; Sarah Leonard, soprano
