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Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Speaking voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
recit fl cl vl vla vc pf
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
sopr fl(pic) ob cl cl-b perc cel hp 2vl vla vc cb
Innermost Man : for soprano and 4 instrumental groups / Dmitri Kourliandski; text by A. Platonov
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble
Scoring:
sopr fl cl-b h trp trb perc pf bayan/acc str
Zwei Lieder : für Bariton und Instrumente, (1971) / Robert de Roos
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and large ensemble; Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
bar fl ob(eh) cl(cl-b) perc cel pf (1-4)vla (1-3)vc
composition
John Clare : for tenor and 15 instruments, 2000/2001 / text: John Clare, Jacques Bank
Other authors:
Clare, John
(Text writer/Librettist)
Bank, Jacques
(Composer)
Description:
Program note (English): The John Clare Triptych consists of three compositions dedicated to the life and work of the English poet John Clare. He was born in the little country village of Helpston (Northhamptonshire) in 1793 as son of a poor farmhand and died in a lunatic asylum in 1864. Clare's main problem was his homelessness. He didn't belong to the simple, non-intellectual world of his native region. Neither did he to the intellectual, arrogant world of the literary hotshots in London. Nor to the seeminly uncomplicated world of the gypsies. Even the asylum, where he stayed for the last twenty years of his life, was not his home. He wasn't mad. He just couldn't manage life. - Part 3: John Clare consists of six songs based on a number of diary notes, Clare's most famous poem 'I am !' and the heartrending, last letter he wrote in the asylum. - JACQUES BANK