Quintett II

Uraufführung: 10.7.2018, im Rahmen der Prüfung zum Bachelor of Music; Lübeck, Musikhochschule Großer Saal

Weitere Aufführungen: 17.09.2018, Ensemble Soundstreams (Kanada); Shanghai New Music Week 2018, Shanghai Conservatory of Music

 

Aufnahme verfügbar

« Every friendship is an inconspicuous drama, a series of subtle wounds.»  (Emil Cioran)

 

This quintet creates a small and concentrated chamber theatre dealing with the questions of friendship, or human relationships in general. What Cioran calls “subtle wounds” is predominant in the used poem by Samuel Walther, the hurt, anger, pain, brutality, violence and abuse. Those raw elements are also musically the core aspect of the composition in its dominance of percussive sounds short and loud eruptions and articulated noise. But there is also a hidden beauty that holds the relationship intact embodied by the soloistic mezzo-soprano. She is alone, sometimes separated from the two couples, only commenting but ever present.

 

Schlag mich noch einmal,

 

Ins Gesicht, damit das Blut,

 

Dieses heiße Rot,

 

Über meine Lippen fließt.

 

Und meine Tränen,

 

Im Traum zu dir hin fallen

 

Auf den harten Stein,

 

Wie Sterne in den Nächten.

 

Dabei erfrierend

 

Bleiben sie stumme Zeugen,

 

Ein Mahnmal aus Eis,

 

Kraft, die durch uns beide strömt.

 

 

 

 

Strike me once more

 

In my face so that blood

 

This hotly red

 

Flows over my lips.

 

And all my tears

 

Falling to you in dreams

 

On the cold stone

 

As stars do at night.

 

Thereby freezing they

 

Stay as silent witnesses

 

Cenotaph of ice

Force that runs through both of us.