La notte – for mixed choir
La notte
Instrumentation
vocal sextet or
mixed choir
Duration
6 Minutes
commissioned by
Compagnie Bischoff
Publisher
Year
2011
Kasia Głowicka’s La Notte stands as a compelling response to the commission from Campagnie Bischoff, offering a thoughtful epilogue to Franz Liszt’s Via Crucis. Michelangelo wrote the text for his funerary monument for Giuliano de’ Medici in Florence. Part of this monument is La Notte, a sleeping woman as an allegory of the night. Liszt saw Michelangelo’s creation when he first visited Italy in 1838/39. He used the epigram as the motto for his piano piece Il penseroso (The Thinker), a funeral march included in the cycle Années de pèlerinage. Deuxième année: Italie.
Drawing inspiration from the mystical character of Liszt’s final works, Głowicka anchors her composition in the same profound text that once moved Liszt himself in his previous works —Michelangelo’s sonnet La Notte:
(trans. Mark Daniel Cohen)
—Mathieu Heinrichs
PERFOMERS
Compagnie Bischoff
conducted by Romain Bischoff
Performances:
Premire: 3/09/2011 Flagey,
Klara Festival Brussel
subsequent performances:
Gaudeamus Festival, 09.2011
Slow Listening Festival, 25.11.2011
PRESS
The semi-theatrical, gripping performance by the fourteen singers of Compagnie Bischoff, with pianist Ronald Brautigam, added new dimensions to this visionary music (…) with Kasia Głowicka’s impactful, expressive and musically deep choral work.”
Trouw
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