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Max Doehlemann
7 Songs on Shakespeare's Sonnets, für Bariton und Klavier
UES101435-000
Type: Dirigierpartitur
Format: 210 x 297 mm
Pages: 72
Description
Besides string quartets, songs for voice and piano count among the most intimate of genres. They are a fulcrum by which the author not only bears witness to the art of compositional work, but also documents how he adapts the text that he sets to music, how he reads that text, and how he weighs it. At the same time, the specific quality of the literary basis is that everything must be told within a "highly contained context" and echoed through the voice. In this case, the literary original happens to have been written by a man whose central interest is in Man, the human heart in all its facets, ambiguities, and abysses, a man who continuously highlights the place where psychology, universalism, and the archaic "theater of the world" converge.
Max Doehlemann's settings of Shakespeare's Sonnets were all written in 2012. The foreground of the work contains melodic and rhythmic motives which permeate the entire cycle, accompany the text, and analytically illuminate the text in various ways. At other times, the central motive of "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day" which like an echo, or a distant memory, recurs elsewhere, exposed, or inverted, as in Sonnet 116. The Sonnets, one would say, show in his reading the diversity of and interpretive wealth from one and the same motive.
"What will survive of us is love"
(Philip Larkin, Poems)
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Type: Dirigierpartitur
Format: 210 x 297 mm
Pages: 72