Martin Smolka - Poema de balcones
£13.25
Usually available for despatch within 2-3 working days
Despatch Information
This despatch estimate is based on information from both our own stock and the UK supplier's stock.
If ordering multiple items, we will aim to send everything together so the longest despatch estimate will apply to the complete order.
If you would rather receive certain items more quickly, please place them on a separate order.
If any unexpected delays occur, we will keep you informed of progress via email and not allow other items on the order to be held up.
If you would prefer to receive everything together regardless of any delay, please let us know via email.
Pre-orders will be despatched as close as possible to the release date.
Label: Wergo
Cat No: WER73322
Format: Hybrid SACD
Number of Discs: 1
Genre: Vocal/Choral
Release Date: 29th April 2016
Contents
Artists
SWR Vokalensemble StuttgartMartin Homann (percussion)
Conductor
Marcus CreedWorks
Poema de balconesSalt and Sadness
Walden, the Distiller of Celestial Dews
Artists
SWR Vokalensemble StuttgartMartin Homann (percussion)
Conductor
Marcus CreedAbout
It is astonishing, actually, that the avant-garde audience approved of such illustrative music, but it was so different – and was conveyed with such simple charm. “Please, no more musical revolutions. [...] Please, no more new music, but rather strange music” - this is what Smolka demands in his Manifesto of a Re-tuned Composer. His choral work Walden, the Distiller of Celestial Dews is not the only one to follow these principles.
Imitation, formal simplicity, altered intonation, and repetition can also be found in another guise in his Poema de balcone for two mixed choirs from 2008. The text is based on only three lines from Federico García Lorca’s poem Romancero gitano. The words as sung are hardly understandable. We hear, however, how the sea slowly dances across the beach – with a rolling R – in the long-drawn-out overlapping waves of the two choirs.
Słone i smutne (Salt and Sadness) for mixed choir from 2006, on the other hand, employs the elements mentioned in a very different way. The piece is based on a poem written in the late 1940s by the Polish poet Tadeusz Różewicz (1921–2014), a poem about love and remembrance. Again, Smolka does not follow the text in a linear way. He picks out single words and parts of sentences and constantly recombines them, playing once more with expressions.
Error on this page? Let us know here
Need more information on this product? Click here