For at Forfølge det Håb...
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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
- To pursue the hope that kills me
- I pursue the thought that nourishes hope.
- I pursue the love that nourishes the thought,
- and does not allow me to die in oblivion,
- but nourishes the hope of an hour so infinitely great,
- at no day can hold its meaningless timelessness.
- Lately, the thought has haunted me,
- at eternity is built of small moments
- which by definition
- are unique.
- Kim Mortensen 1996
Work Description
Musical setting of Kim Mortensen's poem, exploring the duality between the pursuit of hope and the eternity and timelessness of the moment
- Instrumentation: mz, vn
- Version Text: Original work with poetry by Kim Mortensen
Performances
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Broadcast - For at Forfølge det Håb...
Broadcast, DR - P2, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sunday 16 March 1997
Broadcast, DR - P2, Copenhagen, Denmark
Sunday 16 March 1997
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- Menneskets Tråde (mezzo soprano) (2002)
- Awakening (2002)
- Den Standhaftige Tinsoldat (2004)
- Det døende Barn (choir) (1998)
- Mountain of Frigiliana (mezzo soprano and accordion) (2018)
- Three Haiku (12-part choir) (1999-2000)
- Fordum var der Fred på Gaden (choir) (1905/2019)
- Fordum var der Fred på Gaden (modern diatonic arrangement - choir) (1905/2019)