Halleluja - Oratorio Balbulum

Name: Halleluja - Oratorio Balbulum
Brand: Schott Music
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Four fragments

for mezzo-soprano and tenor solo, narrator, choir and orchestra

Edition: Performance material

Series: Halleluja - Oratorium balbulum

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Hungarian author Péter Esterházy compiled the libretto for this meta oratorio by his compatriot Peter Eötvös. In Halleluja, the choir, angels, a stuttering prophet and a narrator all act in full awareness of their function: ‘I am the Narrator. My chattiness is of a structural nature and therefore an unimprovable imperfection.’

Eötvös augments the work with quotations from Halleluja settings from various musical periods, including Bach’s cantata Ich hatte viel Bekümmernis, Handel’s Messiah, Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, as well as gospel songs and an imagined Halleluja by Béla Bartók. Ultimately, prophecies and the search for identity reveal bitter insights with allusions to the current political situation: ‘The cultural broth has become extremely diluted. Public opinion no longer exists. […] There is no future. It is at least greatly comforting that everything comes to an end – that is the long-term optimism of our oratorio.’

Orchestral Cast

4 (3. auch Picc., 4. auch Picc. und Altfl.) · 2 · Engl. Hr. · 2 · Bassklar. · 2 · Kfg. - 4 · 3 · 2 (1. auch Altpos.) · Basspos. · 1 - P. S. (I: Glsp. · Crot. · Burma Gong · Tamb. basco [hoch] · Bong. [hoch] · Sistrum · Woodbl. [hoch]; II: Vibr. · Trgl. · Tamt. · kl. Tr. · Cabasa [hoch] · Guiro · Mar. [hoch] · Sistrum; III: Trgl. [tiefer als Schlgzg. II] · Beck. à 2 [hell] · 4 Burma Gongs [A-d-e-gis] · Cencerro [es1] · Tomt. · Bell Tree · Caxixi [hoch]; IV: Röhrengl. · Trgl. [tiefer als Schlgzg. III] · 3 hg. Beck. · Nietenbeck. · gr. Tr. · Sistrum) (4 Spieler) - 2 Hfe. · Akk. · Klav. (auch Cel.) - Str. (14 · 12 · 10 · 8 · 6)

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Title:

Halleluja - Oratorio Balbulum

Four fragments

for mezzo-soprano and tenor solo, narrator, choir and orchestra

Text by Péter Esterházy

German translation by György Buda

English translation (narrator) by Judith Sollosy

Language:

German

Edition:

Performance material

Publisher/Label:

Schott Music

Year of composition:

2015

Duration:

54 ′0 ′′

World Premiere:

July 30, 2016 · Salzburg (A)
Großes Festspielhaus
Salzburger Festspiele 2016
Iris Vermillion, Mezzosopran; Topi Lehtipuu, Tenor; Peter Simonischek, Erzähler · Conductor: Daniel Harding · Wiener Philharmoniker · Hungarian Radio Choir · Choir director: Zoltán Pad

Commissioned work :

Co-commissioned by Salzburg Festival, Wiener Konzerthaus in collaboration with Wien Modern, supported by the Ernst von Siemens Foundation, Müpa Budapest - Palace of Arts Nonprofit Ltd, WDR and ACHT BRÜCKEN | Musik für Köln, Tonhalle-Gesellschaft Zürich, Sydney Symphony Orchestra

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Halleluja - Oratorium balbulum