Violoncello (Gesang der Frauen an den Dichter)

Rainer Maria Rilke wrote the poem Gesang der Frauen an den Dichter in March 1907 on Capri. First published in the collection Neue Gedichte.

See how everything opens up: that is how we are;

for we are nothing but such bliss.

What was blood and darkness in an animal

that grew into a soul in us and cries out

and continues to cry out as a soul. And it cries out for you.

You, of course, only take it into your face..,

as if it were a landscape: gentle and without greed.

And that's why we think it's not you,

for whom it cries out. And yet, you are not the one

to whom we would lose ourselves without rest?

And do we become more in any?

With us the infinite passes away.

But be thou, thou mouth, that we may hear it,

But thou, thou that sayest to us, be thou.

WOMEN'S SONG TO THE POET:

WAZ of 17.12.1996 (Martina Möller): Skilled wanderer between tradition and modernity

He masters the tightrope walk between tradition and avant-garde. Composer Matthias Bonitz once again demonstrated his sure instinct for contemporary classical listening pleasure in the Town Hall. The young soprano Cordula Berner and the Assindia Quartet created a powerful sound painting that opens up to a bright glow of hope at the end. The composer sticks closely to the text, skilfully dressing heavy linguistic metaphors in strong dissonances and deep singing, only to dissolve again into melodic euphony in the consonance of poetry.