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- Maja S. K. Ratkje
A whisper, or a prayer, or a song (2022)
- Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen (World)
Commissioner exclusivity applies
Unavailable for performance.
- 1+pic+afl.2+ca.1+ebcl+bcl.2+cbn/4331/timp.3perc/pf(cel).hp/str
- 15 min
- 21st February 2024, Göteborg Konserthus, Göteborg, Sweden
- 22nd February 2024, Göteborg Konserthus, Göteborg, Sweden
Programme Note
Starting from open strings like an intense whisper, or is it a prayer? The wide open intervals emerge and spread throughout the orchestra, land like lengthy, contrived sentences eventually falling to the ground, but start anew, rising like a song, more songs, lacking voice, but still… There is yet hope, fragile, but moving.
The title is a quotation from Aasne Linnestå’s libretto for Revelations (This Early Song), published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen in 2017, a work for string quartet and mezzo which A Whisper, or a Prayer or a Song relates to.