Der Reisende
(2024)Melodrama for narrators, vocal soloists, choir and large orchestra
Duration: 70'
Scoring
3.3.3.3-6.3.3.1-timp.perc(3)-harp-cel-tape-strings
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Publisher
Sikorski
Availability
World Premiere
09/11/2025
Kulturpalast, Konzertsaal, Dresden
Ulrich Noethen and Birgit Minichmayr, narrators / Philharmonischer Chor Dresden / Dresdner Philharmonie / Gergely Madaras
Press Quotes
"(...) The orchestra, with its shrill strings, immediately intensified the whole thing into a cry that boded ill. The composer calls this opening a 'dissonant primal sound, a kind of battering ram.' This was about escape. Dreams of freedom turned into mortal fear. (...)' (Karsten Blüthgen in: Sächsische Zeitung, November 12, 2025)
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