Balch, K: estrangement
for soprano and piano
soprano and piano (SOP/PF)
Balch, K: estrangement
for soprano and piano
soprano and piano (SOP/PF)
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This highly expressive and inventive song cycle utilizes a lush prepared piano sound-world intertwined with beautiful vocal writing and text setting. The composer tells us, “This cycle is imagined as a companion piece to Robert Schumann’s Dichterliebe, though it may be performed on its own in full or as selections. If programmed alongside Dichterliebe, an ideal performance would involve alternating/ intertwining songs from each set to invite a dialogue between the two perspectives of love portrayed in the respective narratives of each cycle.”
Contents
- Only once (a)
- Why, she sees, it didn't occur her
- Only once (b)
- rejection possible
- It was then she realized
- The film
- How the film ends
- She rarely recalled
- She left them
- Only the song
- The labour of forgetting
- a novel by a writer from another continent / when sche read the novel
- in a jar