Argento, Dominick: The Andree Expedition (1980) 20'

for baritone and piano

Music Text  
Journals of Andree

Programme Note  
Andrée, Strindberg and Frænkel began their expedition on July 11, 1897. Their records break off three months later. Thirty-three years later their bodies were discovered and returned to Sweden, at which time the diaries and notebooks of Andrée and Strindberg were published: most of the text for this cycle is taken directly from them. Frænkel leftno account behind, but the text assigned to im is partially based on his companions’ writings.

 

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