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TurmMusik / Tower Music
for two clarinets, brass and strings with baritone solo
texts by Franz Kafka, Jakob Böhme, Friedrich Dürrenmatt and from the Bible
2 clarinets, brass and strings with solo baritone
Product Details
Description
This major work from Alexander Goehr reflects upon the diametrically opposing roles towers can have. The composer writes ‘Towers embody the idea of climbing upwards, in the spiritual as much as in the physical sense. Their destruction can be regarded as a punishment (or as a rescue from) man’s overwhelming arrogance.’
Using texts by Franz Kafka, 17th century mystic Jacob Boehme and Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Goehr explores man’s desire to build towers to draw closer to God whilst the works feel nothing but despair at the fruitfulness of such a task.
Using texts by Franz Kafka, 17th century mystic Jacob Boehme and Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Goehr explores man’s desire to build towers to draw closer to God whilst the works feel nothing but despair at the fruitfulness of such a task.
Orchestral Cast
2cl(preferably in C but if unavailable in Eb)-3hn.3tpt(3.flugelhn in Bb).3tbn(alto, 2ten).tba-str
Content
I Inscription of Nebukadnezzar II on the great stone tablets
II Fr. Kafka: The City Coat-of-Arms
III Jakob Boehme, Mysterium magnum
IV Fr. Dürrenmatt, Towerbuilding
V Fr. Kafka: The City Coat-of-Arms (continued)
VI Choral Prelude II
VII Isaiah 14. 13-14
II Fr. Kafka: The City Coat-of-Arms
III Jakob Boehme, Mysterium magnum
IV Fr. Dürrenmatt, Towerbuilding
V Fr. Kafka: The City Coat-of-Arms (continued)
VI Choral Prelude II
VII Isaiah 14. 13-14
More Information
Title:
TurmMusik / Tower Music
for two clarinets, brass and strings with baritone solo
texts by Franz Kafka, Jakob Böhme, Friedrich Dürrenmatt and from the Bible
Edition:
Study score
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music Ltd., London
Year of composition:
2009 - 2010
Opus:
op. 85
Duration:
30 ′
World Premiere:
June 9, 2010 · Manchester (UK)
BBC Studio 7
Nigel Robson, Bariton
BBC Studio 7
Nigel Robson, Bariton
Commissioned work :
Commissioned by BBC Radio 3
Series:
Title:
TurmMusik / Tower Music
for two clarinets, brass and strings with baritone solo
texts by Franz Kafka, Jakob Böhme, Friedrich Dürrenmatt and from the Bible
Language:
German, English
Edition:
Study score
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
2009 - 2010
Opus:
op. 85
Duration:
30 ′
World Premiere:
June 9, 2010 · Manchester (UK)
BBC Studio 7
Nigel Robson, Bariton
BBC Studio 7
Nigel Robson, Bariton
Commissioned work :
Commissioned by BBC Radio 3
Series:
Title:
TurmMusik / Tower Music
for two clarinets, brass and strings with baritone solo
texts by Franz Kafka, Jakob Böhme, Friedrich Dürrenmatt and from the Bible
Language:
German, English
Edition:
Study score
Publisher/Label:
Schott Music
Year of composition:
2009 - 2010
Opus:
op. 85
Duration:
30 ′
World Premiere:
June 9, 2010 · Manchester (UK)
BBC Studio 7
Nigel Robson, Bariton
BBC Studio 7
Nigel Robson, Bariton
Commissioned work :
Commissioned by BBC Radio 3
Series:
Technical Details
Product number:
ED 13672
ISMN13:
979-0-2201-3466-1
Product number:
ED 13672
ISMN13:
979-0-2201-3466-1
Weight:
0,3 kg
Pages:
84
Format:
21cm x 29.7cm
Binding:
Saddle-wire stitching
Product number:
ED 13672 Q21267
ISMN13:
979-0-2201-3466-1
Pages:
81
File format:
(PDF / 1,56 MB)
Performances
TurmMusik / Tower Music
June 9, 2010 |
Manchester (United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland) , BBC Studio 7 — World Premiere
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