related works
Needle Soup (Klin corba) : A surrealistic fairy tale for octet / Isidora Žebeljan
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
cl h fg 2vn vla vla vc db
De Profundis : for mezzo soprano and ensemble / br Kris Oelbrandt ocso
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr-m cl-b perc 2vn vla vc
Planctus Cygni II : for soprano, Arabic mezzo-soprano and harp / Gerard Beljon
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
zang hp
Rajanigandha : for soprano, flute and piano / John Borstlap ; seven poems by Rabindranath Tagore
Genre:
Vocal music
Subgenre:
Voice and instrument(s)
Scoring:
sopr fl 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