VIER GEDICHTE - FOUR POEMS AFTER HERMANN HESSE

for baritone/alto, marimbaphone and piano

Audio-Snippets:
  • 01.Liebeslied
  • 02.Blauer Schmetterling
  • 03.Wolllust
  • 04.Novalis

VIER GEDICHTE - FOUR POEMS AFTER HERMANN HESSE

for baritone/alto, marimbaphone and piano

Category:  Chamber Music , Organ / Sacred Music

Movements: Love song, Blue Butterfly, Lust, Novalis

Duration: 8:30 (2:30, 1:20, 2:00, 2:10 min)

Instrumentation: Baritone (alto), marimbaphone, piano

Solo instruments: Piano, Percussion

Text/Lyrics by: Hermann Hesse

Additional remarks: Music in the tension of subjective gestures (partly free-metrical) and construction (mode and row,
1st and 4th song behave crab-shaped)

Records:  Wergo WER6608-2, from 1996, title: Music and Poetry,  1996

Performers on recording: 1996: Andreas Schindler (baritone), Stefan Blum (marimba), Adrian Baianu;
1984 a Bavarian Radio production with: Peter Ullrich (baritone), Stefan Blum (marimba), Dorothea Hofmann (piano)