Michael Nyman: Six Celan Songs For Low Female Voice And Piano | 9780711977457 | CH61412 - Sheet Music

product id: 1887
Composer/Artist: Nyman, Michael
Arrangement: alto, piano
Product type: Vocal Score
Media: Sheet Music
Pages: 48
Genre: Post-1900
Language: English / French / German / Italian
Expected shipping time: 14 days
Price: 41.95 euro

This cycle of settings of poems by Paul Celan was written between May and July 1990 for Ute Lemper. The texts are taken from the following collections: 'Chanson einer Dame im Schatten' and 'Corona' from Mohn und Gedachtnis(1952), 'Nachtlich geschurzt' from Von Schwelle zu Schwelle (1955), 'Blume' from Sprachgitter (1959), and 'Es war Erde in ihnen' and 'Psalm' from Die Niemandsrose of 1963.

The settings of 'Corona' and 'Blume' both introduce an eight-bar chord sequence derived from Chopin's Mazurka in A minor, Op.17 No.4 (the introduction to which was used by Gorecki in his Symphony No.3).

Piano and voice version written in 1997 at the request of Hilary Summers.

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