Pulse Shadows
(1989-96)9 Settings of Celan interleaved with 9 Movements for String Quartet
Duración: 64'
Texto Musical
Paul Celan, translated by Michael Hamburger (E,G)
Orquestación
Solo S-string quartet-2cl-vla.vlc.db
3 movements from each constituent cycle are published by Universal
Edition. The complete work is available on hire from Boosey & Hawkes.
Abreviaturas (PDF)
Publicador
Boosey & Hawkes / Universal Edition
Territorio
Este trabajo está disponible a través de Boosey & Hawkes
for the world.
Disponibilidad
World Premiere
29/04/1996
Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
Claron McFadden, soprano / Capricorn / Arditti Quartet / Lionel Friend
Citas de prensa
"Pulse Shadows is a consummation of Birtwistle's art... His word-setting has a toughness that keeps faith with the poetry, and his jittery quartet idiom a virtuosity nowhere more apparent than in Todesfuge, a spectacular (spectral) version of a late Beethoven fugue."
Sunday Times
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