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Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Spreekstem en instrument(en)
Bezetting:
recit fl cl vl vla vc pf
To the Enemy : for soprano and percussion / Katia Tiutiunnik; text by Eva Salzman
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en instrument(en)
Bezetting:
sop perc
Late of the city of Rome : for voice and flute quartet / Jacques Bank; text by John Keats
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en instrument(en)
Bezetting:
sopr-m/ten fl(pic) fl(fl-a) 2fl(2fl-a 2fl-b)
Genre:
Vocaal
Subgenre:
Zangstem en instrument(en)
Bezetting:
alt fl hp
compositie
The end : seven songs for bass/baritone solo, 1992 / Jacques Bank
Auteur(s):
Aubrey, John
(Tekstdichter/librettist)
Barton, David
(Tekstdichter/librettist)
Defoe, Daniel
(Tekstdichter/librettist)
Bank, Jacques
(Componist)
Bevat:
She leapt... / tekst v. J. Aubrey
Three years later...
A recluse...
The Russian general...
She accused her husband... / teksten uit The Independent
Nothing dies so neatly... / tekst v. D. Barton
A dreadful plague... / tekst v. D. Defoe
Toelichting:
Program note (English): "The end" consists of seven songs. The last song must be accompanied by one or more unspecified instruments. "The end" is about dying. The first song is based on a story by the 17th-century English author John Aubrey, in which a woman welcomes her lover in such a way that she is crushed to death. Stories about several bizarre ways of dying, taken from the English newspaper, The Independent, are told in songs 2, 3, 4 and 5. The sixth song is based on a text about the neat and controlled way insects die by the English artist David Barton, published in his 'drawing-book' "Sequences One". In the last song the singer tells the audience that, in spite of the 'gloomy' atmosphere of preceding songs, he is happy to be alive. This last song is based on the poem that concludes Daniel Defoe's "A journal on the Plague Year". - Jacques Bank