Michael Hersch: "After Hölderlin's 'Hälfte des Lebens'" for viola and cello скачать в хорошем качестве

Michael Hersch: "After Hölderlin's 'Hälfte des Lebens'" for viola and cello

Michael Hersch: "After Hölderlin's 'Hälfte des Lebens'" for viola and cello Miranda Cuckson, viola Julia Bruskin, cello October 18, 2011 The Transit Circle Contemporary Music Series Hersch's duet "After Hölderlin's 'Hälfte des Lebens'" (Half of Life), was first performed at a September 11th memorial concert at the Pantheon in Rome in December 2001. The work captures the essence of one of Friedrich Hölderlin's (1770-1843) archtypically crushing poems, a description of a lovely summertime lakeside scene that without warning is intruded upon by the poet's tormented thoughts of walls that "stand speechless and cold/ in the wind/ the flagpoles jangle." (Die Mauern stehn/ Sprachlos und kalt, im Winde/ Klirren die Fahnen.) That literary juxtaposition of pastoral serenity and impending doom is an apt companion to the music, because Hersch has created a piece that does not so much portend as it is about portent. The strings are ominous, disturbing, and there is never any sense of narrative resolution, no crescendo of release. You are fully in a place of tension and there you remain. -- Nicholas Dawidoff