Wanderlied
by Betsy Jolas
- Instrumentation
- Cello, Other
- Composed
- 2003
- Duration
- 12'
- Publisher
- Alphonse Leduc (hire)
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About this piece
A twelve-minute concertante work for solo cello and fifteen instruments, written for Sonia Wieder-Atherton and the Nouvel Ensemble Moderne, who premiered it under Lorraine Vaillancourt in Marseille on 10 May 2003. According to the publisher's note, the title comes from 'Wanderpoem', a 1943 text by the composer's father, Eugène Jolas, and the piece is a wordless song that builds in one continuous crescendo from lyricism to a violent close. Jolas pictures the cellist as a wandering storyteller, with the ensemble as the crowd around her.
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