For at forfølge det håb...
Chamberwork by Martin Lohse
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Recording
'Live recording'
First performance by Ingrid Skold and Christine Pryn
Info
Composer Martin Lohse
Title For at forfølge det håb..
Title in English To pursue the hope...
Work number W.1
Composition year 1997
Movements 3
Duration 6 min
Genre chamber music
Number of instruments 2
Instrumentation mezzo soprano and violin
Score notation handwritten
Free score yes
First performance 16 March 1997
- by Ingrid Skold and Christine Pryn
- place Danish Radio, Studio 2
Recording type live
Musical styles and elements modern, expressive
Poem
In Danish
For at forfølge det håb, som dræber mig
forfølger jeg tanken, der nærer håbet.
Jeg forfølger kærligheden, der nærer tanken,
- og ikke tillader mig at dø I glemslen,
men nærer håbet om en time så uendelig stor,
at intet døgn kan rumme dens meningsløse tidsløshed.
På det seneste har den tanke forfulgt mig,
at evigheden er opbygget af små øjeblikke
der per defination
er unikke.
Kim Mortensen 1996
In English (Google translation)
To pursue the hope which kills me
I pursue the idea that nourishes hope.
I will pursue the love that nourishes the idea
- and does not allow me to die in oblivion,
but nourishes hope in an hour so infinitely great,
that no day can hold its senseless timelessness.
More recently, the thought has haunted me,
that eternity is made up of little moments
which by definition
are unique.
Kim Mortensen 1996
Performances
All versions of - For at forfølge det håb..
Broadcast, DR - P2, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sunday 16 March 1997
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