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Chacun sa Chimère
Poème visuel nach dem gleichnamigen "Poème en prose" von Charles Baudelaire
für eine Tenorstimme und Orchester
tenorvoice and orchestra
Edition: Performance material
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The text (by Charles Baudelaire) is taken from the 20 prose poems of the cycle ‘Le spleen de Paris’, published in the wake of ‘Les Fleurs du mal’ in 1867. Baudelaire describes through a narrator talking in the fi rst-person how he meets a crowd of people in a lifeless vacuum who, bending forward, wander through the country. Everyone carries a heavy burden on his back: Baudelaire metaphorically calls them ‘chimera’ […]. Asked by the narrator, it turns out that the people do not know what they are carrying nor for which purpose: they assume the burden and go on. Disheartened by their response the narrator gives up his attempt to get an explanation and sinks into indifference.
"Reimann divided the poem into six sections each of which begins with a solo intonation of the tenor voice. The orchestra gradually works its way under the text and, in the singing pauses, develops an increasing chain of variations over a four-note sequence based on the head motif from Bach‘s Musical Offering. […] What distinguishes Reimann‘s music is the basic characteristic style: In a kind of modern passacaglia, a model for the human loss of meaning is chiselled into the memory of the world. When the people march past the narrator, the four-note sequence widens into an instrumental arioso which, for a moment, promises release from this state before the leaden time sets in again." (Ulrich Schreiber, NZ 6/7 1982)
"Reimann divided the poem into six sections each of which begins with a solo intonation of the tenor voice. The orchestra gradually works its way under the text and, in the singing pauses, develops an increasing chain of variations over a four-note sequence based on the head motif from Bach‘s Musical Offering. […] What distinguishes Reimann‘s music is the basic characteristic style: In a kind of modern passacaglia, a model for the human loss of meaning is chiselled into the memory of the world. When the people march past the narrator, the four-note sequence widens into an instrumental arioso which, for a moment, promises release from this state before the leaden time sets in again." (Ulrich Schreiber, NZ 6/7 1982)
Orchestral Cast
2 (2. auch Picc.) · Altfl. · Bassfl. · 0 · Es-Klar. · 1 · Bassklar. · Kb.-Klar. · 0 - Str. (0 · 0 · 0 · 6 · 6)
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Title:
Chacun sa Chimère
Poème visuel nach dem gleichnamigen "Poème en prose" von Charles Baudelaire
für eine Tenorstimme und Orchester
Language:
French
Edition:
Performance material
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
1981
Duration:
30 ′
World Premiere:
April 17, 1982 · Düsseldorf (D)
Deutsche Oper am Rhein
Douglas F. Ahlstedt, Tenor · Conductor: Friedemann Layer
Original staging: Erich Walter · Costumes: Liselotte Erler · Set design: Gotthard Graubner · Choreography: Erich Walter
(scenic) (scenic performance)
Deutsche Oper am Rhein
Douglas F. Ahlstedt, Tenor · Conductor: Friedemann Layer
Original staging: Erich Walter · Costumes: Liselotte Erler · Set design: Gotthard Graubner · Choreography: Erich Walter
(scenic) (scenic performance)
Commissioned work :
Auftragswerk der Deutschen Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf / Commissioned by Deutsche Oper am Rhein, Düsseldorf
Technical Details
Product number:
LS 3341-01
Performances
Chacun sa Chimère
Conductor: Marc Albrecht
Orchestra: Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin
June 20, 2004 |
Berlin (Germany) , Haus des Rundfunks
Chacun sa Chimère
Conductor: Friedemann Layer
April 17, 1982 |
Düsseldorf (Germany) , Deutsche Oper am Rhein — World Premiere (szenische Aufführung)
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