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        • Rolf Wallin

        • Drei Gedichte von Rainer Maria Rilke (ensemble version) (2007)

        • Chester Music Ltd (World)

        Versions also available for medium or high voice and piano

        • 1(pic)111/1110/perc/pf/str(1.1.1.1.1)
        • Soprano
        • 11 min
        • Rilke
        • German

        Programme Note

        These three poems were written between 1900 and 1908, and they are very different in terms of form, subject matter, and atmosphere. Liebes-Lied is about a strong but painful love, Buddha in der Glorie, a description of religious ecstasy, quite unusual in the works of Rilke, and Sluss-stück, about death, which exists in the midst of us, in the middle of life.

        The work with the songs was a part of a process that occupied me a lot for a period. Is it possible to approach the melodic element in a new way, after many years of letting it live in the shadows of other musical elements, such as rhythm, timbre and form? This is a possible solution.

        Programme note © 2007 Rolf Wallin

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        Drei Gedichte von Rainer Maria Rilke; Liebes-Lied
        Drei Gedichte von Rainer Maria Rilke; Buddha in der Glorie
        Drei Gedichte von Rainer Maria Rilke; Sluss-stück

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