• Arnulf Herrmann
  • Un chant d'amour (2023)
    (for double-bell horn)

  • Henry Litolff’s Verlag GmbH & Co. KG (World)
  • dblblhn
  • Double Bell Horn
  • 9 min
    • 3rd July 2025, Goethe-Institut (Auditorium), Roma, Italy
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Programme Note

The instrument is the programme. One line, one song, which is divided without interruption.

Two bells, two sound directions with two sound colours (muted/unmuted) and yet one instrument, one player.

instrument, one player, separation and interlocking in one person.

The quote comes from the book Eine Frau besorgen by László Darvasi. These are war and love stories

from the time of the Balkan wars of the 90s in the last century. All the stories bear the names

of women. The whole thing is very rough, fantastic, but also surprisingly tender time and again - and this tone

and this tone coincides with the tone that characterises the interpretation of Un chant d'amour