Widmann: Es war einmal...
Once upon a time...
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- Composer: Jörg Widmann (1973-)
- Instrumentation: Clarinet Trio (Clarinet, Viola, Piano)
- Work: Es war einmal... (Once Upon a Time...) (2015)
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- Size: 9.1 x 12.0 inches
Description
As far back as I can remember, I have always been fascinated with fairy tales: with their archetypal characters and set phrases like ‘Once upon a time …' and ‘… they all lived happily ever after'. Fairy tales were however also a source of unrest for me as a seismograph of mankind's underlying primal fears and desires. So as a performer and composer I have always felt that Robert Schumann's Märchenerzählungen [Fairy Tales] (scored for the same instrumentation as my own composition) was a disjointed, complex contemporary work – despite the innocence and naivety of its initial appearance. I therefore do not intend my own Es war einmal … [Once upon a time …] to be a mere sentimental, nostalgic flight into the distant past, but as a naive and fantastical alternative concept to our genuine world with all its upheavals. Jörg Widmann
- I. Once upon a time
- II. Fata Morgana
- III. The Ice Cave
- IV. On Maids and Princes
- V. and they all lived happily ever after...
Widmann: Es war einmal...
