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Category: Symphonic / Orchestral , Opera / Music Theatre
INNER WORLDS are eight symphonic paintings from opera BAHNWÄRTER THIEL - TRACKMAN THIEL (based on the novellistic study of the Nobel Prize Winner in Literature Gerhart Hauptmann). Thiel is - comparable to "Wozzeck" - tragic figure in a social drama: very sensitive, full of visions and pictures, nightmares, but in silence without any loud expression... His existence is shattered, he looses his son with train accident, he gets crazy and schizoid - and murders in madness his wife and the other child.
Movements: 1: Schatten der Vergangenheit / Shadows oft he past
2: Dunkle Wolken / Dark Clouds
3: Waldeinsamkeiten / Solitude in the forest
4: Unwirkliches Intermezzo / Intermezzo of Unrealities
5: Innenwelten / Inner Worlds
6: Friede der Natur / Peace of Nature
7: Unfall & Katastrophe / Accident & Disaster
8: Mondnacht & Wahnsinn / Moonlit night & madness
Dauern:
1: 3:30 / 2: 2:00 / 3: 2:20 / 4: 1:20 / 5: 2:20 / 6: 2:50 / 7: 2:00 / 8: 3:50
Duration: 21 Minutes
Publisher of notes/sheet music: Schott Music , Material for hire , 2018
Instrumentation: 2 flutes (2.also Piccolo)
2 Oboes
2 Clarinets in Bb
2 bassoons
4 french horns
3 trumpets
3 trombones (T T B)
2 percussion players
1 timpani player
Strings (16-14-12-10-8)
Introduction: INNER WORLDS are eight symphonic paintings from opera BAHNWÄRTER THIEL - TRACKMAN THIEL (based on the novellistic study of the Nobel Prize Winner in Literature Gerhart Hauptmann). Thiel is - comparable to "Wozzeck" - tragic figure in this social drama of the german realistic Expressionism: very sensitive, full of visions and pictures, nightmares, but in silence without any loud expression... His existence is shattered, he looses his son with train accident, he gets crazy and schizoid - and murders in madness his wife and the other child. In the Opera in 8 pictures there are a dominant musical element the 8 TABLEAUX SYPHONIQUES - comparable to the SEA INTERLUDES in Benjamin Brittens PETER GRIMES: these "tableaus" are symphonic interludes with very expressive music as a psychological description of the social drama. The nature (clouds, trees, forests) with its different moods are the models for these INNER WORLDS, - an extract of the opera and its TABLEAUX SYMPHONIQUES
Dedication: Simon Gaudenz in Freundschaft gewidmet
Additional remarks: The audio snapshots of INNER WORLDS (below to listen) are recorded at the first premiere of BAHNWÄRTER THIEL 2004 in Theater Goerlitz with the "Neue Lausitzer Philharmonie",conducted by GMD Eckehard Stier
Records: WERGO 5125 2 (Distribution: Naxos) LC 00846, 2018
Performers on recording: Jenaer Philharmonie / Jena Philharmonic, conductor: GMD Simon Gaudenz
CD-Title: mozart & beethoven meeting yin & yang
