Sea of Ice

Name: Sea of Ice
Brand: Schott Music
SKU: 581821
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Concertante poem in three movements

based on the painting “The Sea of Ice” by Caspar David Friedrich

Edition: Performance material

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What is the sound of Caspar David Friedrich? This was the question posed by the city of Greifswald on occasion of the 250th anniversary of the painter’s birth. While Christian Jost was examining Friedrich’s paintings, his attention was drawn to one in particular: Das Eismeer [The Sea of Ice]. ‘This is it,’ he thought. ‘Just the right thing, with its coldness, which can also be evoked by the metallic sound of saxophones. As an opera composer, I am captivated by the drama of the image. The wrecked ship must have a tragic story, which precedes its portrayal. Since I am interested in the transformation of imagination into sound, I would like to tell this story in my music.’ (Christian Jost)

Content

I Winterreise
II 1824
III Die gescheiterte Hoffnung

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Title:

Sea of Ice

Concertante poem in three movements

based on the painting “The Sea of Ice” by Caspar David Friedrich

for saxophone quartet, vibraphone and string orchestra

Edition:

Performance material

Publisher/Label:

Schott Music

Year of composition:

2023

Duration:

23 ′0 ′′

World Premiere:

July 26, 2024 · Greifswald (D)
Dom St. Nikolai
Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
SIGNUM saxophone quartet · Conductor: Christian Jost · Zürcher Kammerorchester

Commissioned work :

Auftragswerk der Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern und der Universitäts- und Hansestadt Greifswald anlässlich des Caspar-David-Friedrich-Jubiläums 2024

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