Hölderlinfenster

A Song cycle (in German) for high voice and piano

 

perusal score •  duration 103′11″

 

Links to archival recordings* of four songs

sung by Ms Carola Schlüter and

accompanied by Olaf Joksch:

  1. Lebenslauf, No. 8 in the score

  2. Vom Delphin, No. 12 in the score

  3. An die Parzen, No. 11 in the score

  4. Vorspiel

*not for redistribution or sale

 

Vorspiel

 

        Letter from Friedrich Hölderlin to Casimir Ulrich Böhlendorf

        Nürtingen, 2nd December, 1802 – excerpt 

 

Lieder

 

  1. Der Nekar

  2. Wie Meeresküsten...

  3. Ihr sichergebauten Alpen...

  4. Der Spaziergang

  5. Die Asyle

  6. In lieblicher Bläue...

  7. Der Ister

  8. Lebenslauf

  9. An Zimmern

  10. Die Wanderung

  11. An die Parzen

  12. Vom Delphin

  13. Das fröhliche Leben

  14. Die Heimath

  15. Burg Tübingen

  1. The Neckar

  2. As on to sea coasts...

  3. You firmly built Alps...

  4. The Walk

  5. The Sanctuaries

  6. In lovely blueness

  7. The Ister

  8. The Course of Life

  9. For Zimmer

  10. The Journey

  11. To the Fates

  12. Of the Dolphin

  13. The Merry Life

  14. Home

  15. Tübingen Fortress

 

In 2013, Carola Schlüter, with the Phorminx Ensemble, premiered my song-cycle susurritos sonrosados in Darmstadt and Tübingen. The power and virtuosity of the singer’s performance and stunning location, near the tower where Hölderlin spent the last 36 years of his life (pictured above) and his words “…and the philosophical light around my window is now my joy...” (letter to Boehlendorf, December 2, 1802) made the composition of a new song cycle - Hölderlinfester - dedicated to Ms Schlüter inevitable.

 

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