TurmMusik / Tower Music op. 85 for two clarinets, brass and strings with baritone solo ． InstrumentInstrument
by Schott Music
Original price
$1,650TWD
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Original price
$1,650TWD
Original price
$1,650TWD
$1,650TWD
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$1,650TWD
Current price
$1,650TWD
Composer: Goehr, Alexander
Instrument: 2 clarinets, brass and strings with solo baritone
Publisher: Schott Music
This major work from Alexander Goehr reflects upon the diametrically opposing roles towers can have. The composer writes ‘Towers embody the idea of climbing upwards, in the spiritual as much as in the physical sense. Their destruction can be regarded as a punishment (or as a rescue from) man’s overwhelming arrogance.’Using texts by Franz Kafka, 17th century mystic Jacob Boehme and Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Goehr explores man’s desire to build towers to draw closer to God whilst the works feel nothing but despair at the fruitfulness of such a task.
Instrument: 2 clarinets, brass and strings with solo baritone
Publisher: Schott Music
Song List:
I Inscription of Nebukadnezzar II on the great stone tablets - II Fr. Kafka: The City Coat-of-Arms - III Jakob Boehme, Mysterium magnum - IV Fr. Dürrenmatt, Towerbuilding - V Fr. Kafka: The City Coat-of-Arms (continued) - VI Choral Prelude II - VII Isaiah 14. 13-14
This major work from Alexander Goehr reflects upon the diametrically opposing roles towers can have. The composer writes ‘Towers embody the idea of climbing upwards, in the spiritual as much as in the physical sense. Their destruction can be regarded as a punishment (or as a rescue from) man’s overwhelming arrogance.’Using texts by Franz Kafka, 17th century mystic Jacob Boehme and Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt, Goehr explores man’s desire to build towers to draw closer to God whilst the works feel nothing but despair at the fruitfulness of such a task.