Jobert PENARD OLIVIER - DER STEPPENWOLF - TENOR, CHOEUR A 4 VOIX MIXTES ET PIANO
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Jobert PENARD OLIVIER - DER STEPPENWOLF - TENOR, CHOEUR A 4 VOIX MIXTES ET PIANO
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A key work by Hermann Hesse, banned by Hitler upon its release, and a cult book for the young generation of the 1970s, Der Steppenwolf is a hallucinatory mise en abyme on solitude and freedom at all costs. The thread of the narrative is interrupted by the famous Treatise of the Steppenwolf, which contains a brief poem summarizing the entire spirit of the novel, referring to 19th-century German authors and stimulating the musical imagination. Placed under the sign of contrast, the poem combines memory with the reality of the present moment, offers a reflection on the inexorable time of life, and confronts the red of the blood of conquests with the almost divine whiteness of the steppes. Composed in three parts for solo tenor, choir, and piano, the music evokes this crossing of the snowy desert, punctuated by memories of a youth that is no more: To the delicate ritornello at the beginning of the poem, written in the spirit of the Schubertian lied, with a calm and unaltered rhythm evoking stillness and whiteness, is opposed a fierce and chromatic music evoking the hunt of times past. The language is passionate and unstable, energetic and abundant, drawing inspiration both from Wagner’s most beautiful orchestral pages and from Stravinsky’s mechanics. This barbaric thirst, this unquenchable rise of desire finds its climax in a fortissimo climax where the appearance of the choir is subtly felt: This new presence is the saving answer the singer was waiting for. Thus, in the return to the white expanses nourished by now accepted memories, the music superimposes the different protagonists of the piece, synthesizing in the form of a calm apotheosis all the writing techniques used so far. To finish, the choir begins once again the ritornello of the wolf and invites the singer to join an ecstatic and luminous elsewhere.Author: PENARD Olivier Discipline/Instrument: tenor, mixed 4-voice choir, and pianoFormat: Score Style/Genre: contemporary Publication date: Oct.-06 Number of pages: 50
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