Redel, Martin Christoph - Bleib, Gedankenfreund Op .70 (Parts)
Klanggedicht für 5 Instrumentalisten
Instrumentation: (Parts)
ISMN: 9790202533031
Publisher: Boosey & Hawkes / Bote & Bock
Level of Difficulty: Advanced
The ensemble piece of about six minutes’ duration was created in 2010/11 upon request of the Ensemble Horizonte (Detmold) and refers to the poem ‘Die fruhen Gräber’ [The Early Graves] by Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock. The world premiere took place at St. Christian Church in Hamburg in September 2011. Klopstock’s night-time poem is turned by Redel into a tonal poem which follows the poem in its sensitively balanced and restrained texture. The fascination, threat and grandeur of the night morph into a lovely picture of musical night-time thoughts.