{"id":112,"date":"2000-03-22T19:18:05","date_gmt":"2000-03-22T18:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.benjamin-schweitzer.de\/Deutsch\/?p=112"},"modified":"2019-07-04T14:16:55","modified_gmt":"2019-07-04T12:16:55","slug":"kesa-ja-talvi-sommer-und-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benjamin-schweitzer.de\/wp\/en\/kesa-ja-talvi-sommer-und-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Kes\u00e4 ja talvi (Summer and Winter) for baritone and piano (2000\/01)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Five songs after poems by Veijo Meri<\/em><\/strong> (2000\/01)<\/p>\n

Publisher:<\/strong> Ms.<\/p>\n

Duration: <\/strong>ca. 10\u2032<\/p>\n

Commissioned by the Aue-Foundation, Helsinki\/Finnland<\/p>\n

WP:<\/strong> (Nr. 1-4) Nov 2, 2000, Helsinki (Herman Wall\u00e9n, Benjamin Schweitzer),
\nWP: <\/strong>(complete cycle) Sept 20, 2001, Graz (Herman Wall\u00e9n, Kanako Nakagawa)<\/p>\n

Further performances:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Nov 18, 2004, New York, Manhattan School of Music (US premiere, Matthias Vieweg\/Reiko F\u00fcting)
\nNov 21, 2004, K\u00f6nigs Wusterhausen (German premiere, Matthias Vieweg\/Reiko F\u00fcting)
\nNov 23, 2004, Wernigerode
\nNov 25, 2004, Berlin
\nNov 27, 2004, Dresden
\nApril 8, 2010, L\u00fcbeck
\nJune 18, 2010, Kiel<\/p>\n

Radio broadcast<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

MDR 3.4.03 (# 3 and #5)<\/p>\n

Introduction:<\/strong><\/p>\n

The first four songs have been written in summer 2000 on request the Aue-foundation in Helsinki for the baritone Herman Wall\u00e9n who performed the leading part in the world premiere of my chamber opera Jakob von Gunten<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Although these poems originate from different collections, they can be perfectly combined to a song cycle. Number I (\u201dHelteen kuivattama koivu\u2026\u201d \u2013 \u201cA birch parched by the heat\u201d), II (\u201dLinnut keve\u00e4v\u00e4t etel\u00e4\u00e4n\u2026\u201d -\u201dBirds leaving south\u201d) and IV (\u201dKes\u00e4 ja talvi\u201d \u2013 \u201csummer and winter\u201d) are pictures of nature, describing the winter or its foreshadowing in a scantly melancholic language.<\/p>\n

Number III (\u201dTeitittely on kaunista\u201d \u2013 \u201cSaying Sie<\/em> is beautiful\u201d) caught my eye because of its Finnish-German bilingualism and serves, in a way, the \u2018Scherzo\u2019 of the cycle. Despite \u2013 or maybe because of \u2013 its exceptious topic among the texts, all musical patterns have been derivated from this song, which I composed first of all. Numbers I and IV have been intended to be prologue and epilogue while the two middle pieces form the core of the composition. Thus, there is an analogy to the stylistic device of a chiasmus, which is also often used in Veijo Meri\u2019s works.<\/p>\n

The handling of the voice includes everything that a skilled Lied<\/em> singer has at his command \u2013 from spoken and whispered sentences over great melodic lines to a tender falsetto. In contrast to that, the piano part is more reduced, although it should not be misinterpreted as a simple accompaniment \u2013 it rather has a commenting function.<\/p>\n

The fifth song, \u201cMyrsky\u201d (Storm), has been added in February 2001 when Herman Wall\u00e9n asked me for a grand virtuousic final after the debut performance of the 4-movement version. The fifth movement actually includes quite a few derivations from the earlier four. While working on this last movement I realized that Meri\u2019s poem is perfectly suited for a termination of the cycle. Comparable to the first movement, it is an embodiment of nature, but with a much more articulated relationship to the human being as an observer. Furthermore, the central position of the third movement is even more emphasized in the five-movement version.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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