Gavin Bryars (* 1943)
The Last Days of Immanuel Kant
for mixed choir Choral Music of Our Time
gemischter Chor (SSAATTBB) a cappella
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Detaljer
- För
- gemischter Chor (SSAATTBB) a cappella
- Typ av produkt
- Körpartitur
- Författare / Kompositör
- Gavin Bryars
- Produktnummer
- 2306651
- Svårighetsgrad
- mycket svår
- Språk
- engelska
Beskrivning
This large-scale choral work for 24 voices sets passages from Thomas de Quincey’s essay, an extraordinary text whose authorship is ambiguous, but which has, for me, something of the austerity and absurdity of Samuel Beckett. I once planned to make this into an opera but, instead, it has become a narrative cantata, describing the great philosopher’s gradual descent into senility and his eventual passing. It shows his increasingly incongruous obsessions and odd behaviour, contrasting this with the...
Innehåll
- I. Motto
- II. Prologue
- III. Dinner
- IV. Conversation
- V. The Old Tower
- Interlude: Lament
- VI. Four Decays
- VII. Kant’s last travelling
- VIII. February
- IX. Postlude February 28th
