Lachenmann / Karlsson / Holmertz - Botschaft Des Ridicolas - Import CD

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Lachenmann / Karlsson / Holmertz

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This project is the realization of an idea that the "uncompromising" duo of Swedish soprano Elisabet Holmerts and pianist Kenneth Carlsson, artistic leader of the Chicada Ensemble since 1989, have been working on for a long time. The album is an album of "contemporary songs" by German and Norwegian composers. Helmut Lachenmann's (b.1935) "Gone" is a collection of songs that are considered "modern classics. The texts are "The Wanderer," a poem from Friedrich Nietzsche's "Ecstasy of Knowledge," "Love Letters are Ridiculous," a poem by Fernando Pessoa, and "Gone - Announcement," based on a note in the elevator of Villa Werther in Berlin-Grunewald that begins, "Today, my laundry basket is gone. The other is "Gone - An Announcement," based on a note in the elevator of the Villa Werther in Berlin-Grnewald.The second half of the concert featured the melancholic "Meditation No. 17 on Georges de la Tour," composed by Yon-Oivin Ness (b.1968) on a text by Paul-Herge Haugen, and "Whoever Found a Horseshoe," by the Jewish-Russian poet Osip Mandelishtam (b.1957), with an excerpt from "Whoever Found a Horseshoe Rolf Wallin's (b.1957) "The Trace is Gone...," a work based on an excerpt from "Whoever Found the Horseshoe" by the Jewish-Russian poet Osip Mandelicheitam. Tokyo M-Plus