Johannes Maria Staud
Berenice. Lied vom Verschwinden
Short instrumentation: 0 0 1 0 - 0 1 1 0 - perc(2), pno, vla(1), vc(2), cb(1), tape
Duration: 12'
Gesangstext: Durs Grünbein
Solos:
soprano
Instrumentation details:
clarinet in Bb
trumpet in C
trombone
1st percussion
2nd percussion
piano
viola
1st violoncello
2nd violoncello
contrabass
tape
Staud - Berenice. Lied vom Verschwinden for soprano, small ensemble and tape
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Johannes Maria Staud
Staud: Berenice. Lied vom VerschwindenOrchestration: für Sopran, kleines Ensemble und Tonband
Type: Dirigierpartitur
Language: Deutsch
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Johannes Maria Staud
Staud: Berenice. Lied vom VerschwindenOrchestration: für Sopran, kleines Ensemble und Tonband
Type: Studienpartitur (Sonderanfertigung)
Language: Deutsch
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Berenice. Lied vom Verschwinden (Song of Vanishing) is the 'aria' of a woman of unearthly beauty. She suffers from consumption which causes her to die, slowly but unstoppably.
The piece is a study for the full-length music theatre work after Edgar Allan Poe I am writing for the Munich Biennale (world premiere in May 2004). It is my first composition which integrates electronically generated sound with vocal-instrumental material.
Rather than fully embedding the tape in the texture of the ensemble and the soprano, I have endeavoured to make the two layers mutually enrich each other. I did not set out to demonstrate their incompatibility - on the contrary: they are meant to make a joint attempt at approximating a sound image (including spatialisation) which became more and more concrete during composition. This image could not have been realised exclusively through vocal and instrumental means.
Johannes Maria Staud