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Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr perc pf 2vn vla vc
Le gibet : for baritone, instruments and live-electronic / words by Aloysius Bertrand, Will Eisma
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s); Multimedia and singing voice(s) with or without instrument(s)
Scoring:
bar fl(pic) ob(eh) cl(cl-b) perc pf vl vc electronics
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s); Voice and piano
Scoring:
sopr-m cemb/pf/hp
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr cl pf
composition
Leonce and Lena (Leons i Lena) : Suite for oboe (doubling ocarina), percussion, piano, soprano, viola and contrabass / Isidora Žebeljan; lyrics by Georg Büchner
Other authors:
Buchner, Georg
(Text writer/Librettist)
Zebeljan, Isidora
(Composer)
Description:
Just as Georg Büchner reached for the structure of the old fairy tale in his drama Leonce and Lena, so Isidora Žebeljan looks to the sounds of Renaissance courts and squares in her suite in four movements (1998/2011), created from music she wrote for the Belgrade production of Büchner’s piece. The vocal and instrumental line-up, consisting of a soprano (mostly without lyrics), oboe, viola, double bass, percussion and piano (deputizing for a virginal or a zither), reminds one of a troupe of minstrels. There are also evocations of the forms of the forlana (Ouverture) and the slow menuet (The King). Yet, as well as this homage to the past, we can sense an unrestrained spirit coming through, as a response of the rhythmical wildness of today to that of a long time ago (Travelling). The last movement returns to the echo of former times in a duet for soprano and oboe (My Tired Footsteps).
Borislav Čičovački