Pulse Shadows
(1989-96)9 Settings of Celan interleaved with 9 Movements for String Quartet
Dauer: 64'
Gesangstext
Paul Celan, translated by Michael Hamburger (E,G)
Orchesterbesetzung
Solo S-string quartet-2cl-vla.vlc.db
3 movements from each constituent cycle are published by Universal
Edition. The complete work is available on hire from Boosey & Hawkes.
Abkürzungsverzeichnis (PDF)
Verlag:
Boosey & Hawkes / Universal Edition
Vertriebsgebiet
Dieses Werk ist erhältlich bei Boosey & Hawkes
for the world.
Verfügbarkeit
World Premiere
29/04/1996
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Claron McFadden, soprano / Capricorn / Arditti Quartet / Lionel Friend
Pressestimmen
"Pulse Shadows is a consummation of Birtwistle's art... His word-setting has a toughness that keeps faith with the poetry, and his jittery quartet idiom a virtuosity nowhere more apparent than in Todesfuge, a spectacular (spectral) version of a late Beethoven fugue."
Sunday Times
Empfohlene Aufnahme
Claron McFadden/Arditti Quartet/Nash Ensemble/Reinbert de Leeuw
Teldec 3984-26867-2
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