David Lang: The Little Match Girl Passion (Theatre of Voices & Ars Nova Copenhagen with Paul Hillier) (2009)
David Lang: The Little Match Girl Passion (2009)
Theatre of Voices & Ars Nova Copenhagen with Paul Hillier
Classical | EAC (APE - CUE - LOG) | Cover | 229 MB
Theatre of Voices & Ars Nova Copenhagen with Paul Hillier
Classical | EAC (APE - CUE - LOG) | Cover | 229 MB
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David Lang's "the little match girl passion," for vocal quartet doubling on percussion instruments, won the Pulitzer Prize in 2008. It's a strong, striking piece with a surprisingly potent emotional punch. Part of its effectiveness derives from the story itself, which is so achingly poignant that it can hardly fail to raise a lump in the throat. The text is primarily compiled from the story by Hans Christian Andersen and from familiar sections from Bach's "St. Matthew Passion," which sound fresh and new in English translation.I don't think I've ever been so moved by a new, and largely unheralded, composition as I was by David Lang's Little Match Girl Passion, which is unlike any music I know.
Setting Hans Christian Andersen's fable in the format of Bach's St. Matthew Passion, Lang elevates the suffering of the little match girl with poignant, evocative music. Lang's piece is scored for four voices and a few percussion instruments, played by the singers. They sing the sad story of a little girl who freezes to death selling matches on the street during a cold winter's night. In notes Lang wrote to accompany the Carnegie Hall premiere last October, he says he was drawn to Andersen's story because of how opposite aspects of the plot played off each other. "The girl's bitter present is locked together with the sweetness of her past memories," Lang says. "Her poverty is always suffused with her hopefulness. There's a kind of naive equilibrium between suffering and hope."―Tim Page, Pulitzer Prize Juror
- Read more: Harmonia Mundi Website
- Listen to David Lang on the creation of The Little Match Girl Passion: Play (Very good interview!)
- Tracklist
1-15 | The Little Match Girl Passion
after H.C. Andersen, H.P. Paull, Picander & St. Matthew
16 | For Love is Strong
after Song of Songs
17 | I Lie
text by Joseph Rolnick
18 | Evening Morning Day
after Genesis, Chapter I
19 | Again (After Ecclesiastes)
Theatre of Voices - Paul Hillier (director)
with Ars Nova Copenhagen
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David Lang: The Little Match Girl Passion (Theatre of Voices & Ars Nova Copenhagen with Paul Hillier) (2009)
