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- Sebastian Fagerlund
Staden (2010)
( Three Songs for Soprano and Piano)- Henry Litolff’s Verlag GmbH & Co. KG (World)
- S + pf
- Soprano
- 17 min
- Bo Carpelan, Claes Andersson and Edith Soedergran
Programme Note
The Suite Staden (The City) includes three songs which in different ways relate to each other and the name of the Suite.
The first song that I have given the name ‘Anonym - Anonymous’ is set to music to an insightful untitled poem by Claes Andersson. The selfimage and the subconscious represents for me in this song, a kind of abstract city where you can make big discoveries but also become surprised of what you have lost.
The second song ‘Staden - The City’, which gave the whole song cycle its name, is set to music to an incredibly diverse and expressive poem by Bo Carpelan. Here entes from a distant a city without limits, a city of mythical proportions in which the focus shifts between diversity and privacy, day and night, security and fear.
The third song ‘Min framtid - My Future’ to a thoughtful poem by Edith Södergran illustrates a kind of involuntary solitude elected as a city or a castle.
The Suite is commissioned by Lied-pianist Tuula Hällström and has been composed with support from Teosto. The piece is dedicated to singer Angelika Klas and Tuula Hällström.
Sebastian Fagerlund