The Sirens Cycle

for coloratura soprano (or soprano) and string quartet

Texts by James Joyce, Homer and Franz Kafka

soprano colorature (ou soprano) et quatuor à cordes

Edition: Partition et parties

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Description

The Sirens Cycle consists of three movements for string quartet with soprano and two electronic interludes. The negation of song in Franz Kafka’s Das Schweigen der Sirenen [The Silence of the Sirens] inspired me to compose a work reflecting on song itself. I took an extract from Ulysses by James Joyce and requested IRCAM in Paris to transform the text through spectral analysis into pitches, note values and tone colours. In the first movement, I strictly adhered to the resulting note sequence, but increasingly became liberated from it during the progress of the work. I linked the quartet movements with interludes evoking audible associations with the song of the sirens. Peter Eötvös

Contenu

I James Joyce (Ulysses)
Interlude ad lib. (electronics)
II Homer (Odysseia)
Interlude ad lib. (electronics)
III Franz Kafka (Das Schweigen der Sirenen)

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Titre:

The Sirens Cycle

for coloratura soprano (or soprano) and string quartet

Texts by James Joyce, Homer and Franz Kafka

Langue:

Allemand, Grec ancien, Anglais

Edition:

Partition et parties

Maison d'édition:

Schott Music

Year of composition:

2015 - 2016

Durée:

45 ′

Première:

1 octobre 2016 · London (UK)
Wigmore Hall
Piia Komsi, soprano; Calder Quartet
(World Premiere without live electronic)

12 octobre 2016 · Paris (F)
IRCAM
Audrey Luna, soprano; Calder Quartet
(World Premiere with live electronics)

Travaux commandés :

Co-commissioned by Wigmore Hall with the support of André Hoffmann, president of the Fondation Hoffmann, a Swiss grantmaking foundation; Tonhalle-Gesellschaft Zürich; Alte Oper Frankfurt; Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical, Madrid; Ircam-Centre Pompidou, Paris; ProQuartet-Centre européen de musique de chambre, Paris and by the Südwestrundfunk (Kompositionsauftrag des Südwestrundfunks)