Choral - difficult
SKU: HL.49019431
Girl's Choir a cappella. Composed by Peter Eö, s, and tvö. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Choral. Classical. Softcover. Composed 2011. 12 pages. Duration 6'. Schott Music #SKR20077. Published by Schott Music (HL.49019431).
ISBN 9790001188890. UPC: 888680077600. 8.25x11.75x0.05 inches. German.
This six-minute madrigal setting was commissioned by the renowned Hanover Girls' Choir and composed on the basis of one of Rainer Maria Rilke's profound poems. It begins as a thanksgiving prayer: for the summer, for the autumn fruits. But the first winds bring along the fear of the cold and loneliness of winter: 'Whoever is alone now will remain so for a long time, will stay up, read, write long letters...'. Eotvos lets the poem unfold twice, each time in a different way, thus intensifying the reflection. The tonality is treated freely, and the choral setting extends the underlying five-part texture, in which the choir's soloists create striking echoes, up to eight-part passages.
