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Das Vokaltuch der Kammersängerin Rosa Silber
Exercise mit Strawinsky über ein Bild von Paul Klee
Ballettmusik / Handlungsloses Ballett
orchestre
As an avid opera-goer, Paul Klee had seen the soprano singer Rosa Silber in Munich and immortalised her in several paintings. The title The vocal fabric of the chamber singer Rosa Silber Silber (1922) is to be taken literally: The initials of the singer as well as five vowels can be seen on the rough canvas frayed along the edges.
The delicate colourfulness of the painting inspired Henze to write a lively ballet with variations on the French children’s song C’est le mai, c’est le mai: ‘Like Klee, more and more particles and variants flake off, squares of uneven dimensions and with tender blue dots of different density, small fields of variations creating a sense of closeness or distance, warmth or coldness, disintegration or breakpoints.’ (Hans Werner Henze)
Edition: Matériel d'exécution
Détails du produit
Description
The strange-sounding title for this ballet score written in 1950 to a commission by RIAS Berlin and dedicated to Boris Blacher was not invented by Henze himself but was taken from a work by the painter Paul Klee (1879-1940). Klee, an enthusiastic opera-lover in his Munich years before World War I had often heard the singer Rosa Silber at the Munich Opera and admired the artist so much that he placed a painted memorial to her in two of his works. The concept “Vocal Cloth” is to be taken literally: on a canvas with a light wash, Paul Klee placed in small letters the initials “R.S.” together with the five vowels “a”, “o”, “u”, “i” and “e”, thereby creating a kind of sound picture.
"[The work] is related to Klee’s gouache in that it is a set of variations on the French nursery rhyme, « C’est le mai, c’est le mai, c’est le joli mois de mai », which remains clearly recognizable throughout the entire work, its notes representing the initials R.S. that appear in the upper middle section of Klee’s canvas. As with Klee, more and more particles and variations splinter off, squares of differing sizes, delicate blue splashes of the most disparate density, tiny areas of deviation that create a sense of nearness and remoteness, warmth or coldness, dissolution or stasis. After looking at it for some time, the observer has the feeling of entering a magic garden, a park in springtime – the tenderest moods arise, all is light and cheerful. The music tries to reflect all this in its own particular way by means of timbre, ideas and atmosphere."
"[The work] is related to Klee’s gouache in that it is a set of variations on the French nursery rhyme, « C’est le mai, c’est le mai, c’est le joli mois de mai », which remains clearly recognizable throughout the entire work, its notes representing the initials R.S. that appear in the upper middle section of Klee’s canvas. As with Klee, more and more particles and variations splinter off, squares of differing sizes, delicate blue splashes of the most disparate density, tiny areas of deviation that create a sense of nearness and remoteness, warmth or coldness, dissolution or stasis. After looking at it for some time, the observer has the feeling of entering a magic garden, a park in springtime – the tenderest moods arise, all is light and cheerful. The music tries to reflect all this in its own particular way by means of timbre, ideas and atmosphere."
Orchestral Cast
Picc. · 1 · 1 · Engl. Hr. · 1 · Bassklar. · 2 - 2 · 2 · 2 · 1 - P. S. (kl. hg. Beck. · Beckenpaar · Tamb.) (1 Spieler) - Str.
Contenu
I Introduction
II Pas d'action
III Deux variations
IV Intermède
V Pas de deux
VI Conclusion
II Pas d'action
III Deux variations
IV Intermède
V Pas de deux
VI Conclusion
Plus d'infos
Titre:
Das Vokaltuch der Kammersängerin Rosa Silber
Exercise mit Strawinsky über ein Bild von Paul Klee
Ballettmusik / Handlungsloses Ballett
Edition:
Matériel d'exécution
Maison d'édition:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
1950 (1990)
Durée:
18 ′
Première:
8 mai 1951 · Berlin (D)
Titania-Palast
Musikalische Leitung: Ferenc Fricsay · RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester
(concert) (concert world première)
15 octobre 1958 · Köln (D)
Städtische Bühnen
Musikalische Leitung: Siegfried Köhler
Kostüme: Ottowerner Meyer · Bühnenbild: Walter Gondolf · Choreographie: Lisa Kretschmar
(scenic) (scenic world première)
14 janvier 1991 · London (UK)
Barbican Hall
BBC Henze Festival 1991
Musikalische Leitung: Hans Werner Henze · Parnassus Ensemble
(concert)
Première mondiale (révision) (concert world première of the revised version)
Titania-Palast
Musikalische Leitung: Ferenc Fricsay · RIAS-Symphonie-Orchester
(concert) (concert world première)
15 octobre 1958 · Köln (D)
Städtische Bühnen
Musikalische Leitung: Siegfried Köhler
Kostüme: Ottowerner Meyer · Bühnenbild: Walter Gondolf · Choreographie: Lisa Kretschmar
(scenic) (scenic world première)
14 janvier 1991 · London (UK)
Barbican Hall
BBC Henze Festival 1991
Musikalische Leitung: Hans Werner Henze · Parnassus Ensemble
(concert)
Première mondiale (révision) (concert world première of the revised version)
Détails techniques
Numéro du produit:
LS 2070-02
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