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All the information about this half-hour-long song cycle is relegated to websites, and websites with user-unfriendly URLs, at that. So here's the basic information: let me tell you is based on an experimental novella by writer (and music critic) Paul Griffiths, consisting exclusively of words spoken by Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet. In this work they are further reduced to seven poems, assembled perhaps in the manner of the widely sold "magnetic poetry" refrigerator magnet kits. Whatever you think of the literary conceit, its realization here is remarkable. Soprano Barbara Hannigan worked closely with composer Hans Abrahamsen on the work, eliciting passages of extended vocal technique that in places resemble the vocal writing of Monteverdi. Abrahamsen's basic musical language lands about halfway between Wagner and Webern, adopting the crystalline economy of the latter but remaining basically tonal in orientation. As with the Second Viennese School, much of the vocal writing is treacherously difficult, and here's where the recording really shines: sample the finale, "I will go out now" (track seven), for some of the most controlled long pianissimi you are likely to have heard lately. Hannigan was involved in commissioning the work and has performed it with orchestras on both sides of the Atlantic; here she rejoins conductor Andris Nelsons, with whom she premiered let me tell you in 2013 with the Berlin Philharmonic. The performance here has an uncanny quality suggesting that the work resides in Hannigan's head, which of course is appropriate to its theme. Beautifully recorded; highly recommended.
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Let me tell you, for Soprano & Orchestra (Hans Abrahamsen)
Barbara Hannigan, Soprano - Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks - Andris Nelsons, Conductor - Hans Abrahamsen, Composer - Paul Griffiths, Lyricist
2016 Winter & Winter GmbH
Barbara Hannigan, Soprano - Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks - Andris Nelsons, Conductor - Hans Abrahamsen, Composer - Paul Griffiths, Lyricist
2016 Winter & Winter GmbH
Barbara Hannigan, Soprano - Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks - Andris Nelsons, Conductor - Hans Abrahamsen, Composer - Paul Griffiths, Lyricist
2016 Winter & Winter GmbH
Barbara Hannigan, Soprano - Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks - Andris Nelsons, Conductor - Hans Abrahamsen, Composer - Paul Griffiths, Lyricist
2016 Winter & Winter GmbH
Barbara Hannigan, Soprano - Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks - Andris Nelsons, Conductor - Hans Abrahamsen, Composer - Paul Griffiths, Lyricist
2016 Winter & Winter GmbH
Barbara Hannigan, Soprano - Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks - Andris Nelsons, Conductor - Hans Abrahamsen, Composer - Paul Griffiths, Lyricist
2016 Winter & Winter GmbH
Barbara Hannigan, Soprano - Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks - Andris Nelsons, Conductor - Hans Abrahamsen, Composer - Paul Griffiths, Lyricist
2016 Winter & Winter GmbH
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All the information about this half-hour-long song cycle is relegated to websites, and websites with user-unfriendly URLs, at that. So here's the basic information: let me tell you is based on an experimental novella by writer (and music critic) Paul Griffiths, consisting exclusively of words spoken by Ophelia in Shakespeare's Hamlet. In this work they are further reduced to seven poems, assembled perhaps in the manner of the widely sold "magnetic poetry" refrigerator magnet kits. Whatever you think of the literary conceit, its realization here is remarkable. Soprano Barbara Hannigan worked closely with composer Hans Abrahamsen on the work, eliciting passages of extended vocal technique that in places resemble the vocal writing of Monteverdi. Abrahamsen's basic musical language lands about halfway between Wagner and Webern, adopting the crystalline economy of the latter but remaining basically tonal in orientation. As with the Second Viennese School, much of the vocal writing is treacherously difficult, and here's where the recording really shines: sample the finale, "I will go out now" (track seven), for some of the most controlled long pianissimi you are likely to have heard lately. Hannigan was involved in commissioning the work and has performed it with orchestras on both sides of the Atlantic; here she rejoins conductor Andris Nelsons, with whom she premiered let me tell you in 2013 with the Berlin Philharmonic. The performance here has an uncanny quality suggesting that the work resides in Hannigan's head, which of course is appropriate to its theme. Beautifully recorded; highly recommended.
© TiVo
Details of original recording : Concert performance at Herculessaal, Munchen, July 2nd and 3rd, 2015 (Premiered by Barbara Hannigan, Andris Nelsons and the Berliner Philharmoniker at Berliner Philharmonie, December 20th, 2013)
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 7 track(s)
- Total length: 00:32:42
- 1 Digital booklet
- Main artists: Barbara Hannigan, Andris Nelsons & Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
- Composer: Hans Abrahamsen
- Label: Winter & Winter
- Area: Danemark
- Genre: Klassiek Wereldlijke vocale muziek
- Period: Contemporary music
2016 Winter & Winter GmbH 2016 Winter & Winter GmbH
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