Johannes Maria Staud (1974)
Berenice – Lied vom Verschwinden (2003)
pour soprano, petit ensemble et bande
œuvre électronique
- Informations générales
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Date de composition :
2003
- Durée : 12 mn
- Éditeur : Universal Edition
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Livret (détail, auteur) :
Durs Grünbein
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Date de composition :
2003
- Genre
- Musique vocale et instrument(s) [1 voix soliste et ensemble de 10 à 25 instruments]
- soliste : 1 soprano solo
- 1 clarinette, 1 trompette, 1 trombone, 2 percussionnistes, 1 piano, 1 alto, 2 violoncelles, 1 contrebasse
Information sur la création
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Date :
mai 2003
Lieu :Allemagne, Witten
Interprètes :Petra Hoffmann, Klangforum Wien, direction : Emilio Pomarico.
Information sur l'électronique
Dispositif électronique : sons fixés sur support
Note de programme
Berenice. Lied vom Verschwinden (Song of Vanishing) is the "aria" of a woman of unearthly beauty. She suffers from consumption which causes her to die, slowly but unstoppably.
The piece is a study for the full-length music theatre work after Edgar Allan Poe I am writing for the Munich Biennale (world premiere in May 2004). It is my first composition which integrates electronically generated sound with vocal-instrumental material.
Rather than fully embedding the tape in the texture of the ensemble and the soprano, I have endeavoured to make the two layers mutually enrich each other. I did not set out to demonstrate their incompatibility – on the contrary: they are meant to make a joint attempt at approximating a sound image (including spatialisation) which became more and more concrete during composition. This image could not have been realised exclusively through vocal and instrumental means.
Johannes Maria Staud.
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