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Silvan Loher - Night. Sleep. Death And The Stars [CD]

Silvan Loher - Night. Sleep. Death And The Stars [CD]

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Poetry has always been one of my biggest passions besides music. The two worlds are strongly connected: in many ways, poetry is music and music is poetry. Any poetry with which I connect strikes a musical chord in me, and the music I love most has a strong poetic quality about it.\r
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No wonder, then, that a lot of the music that fascinates me comes from the marriage of the two fields. Since I was a kid, I have been transfixed by the correlation between text and mu-sic. How do meaning and emotion change when the words are sung instead of spoken? What layers does a composer add to a text when setting it to music? In what way does he or she interpret the words of the poet?\r
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When I set poetry to music, I always try to find the right 'voice' in which to translate the words into music. The two poets represented on this disc, Mascha Kal\xe9ko and Walt Whitman, are amongst my absolute favourites; they have been an important part of my life for many years. The juxtaposition of these two distinct artistic temperaments is fascinating to me. On the one hand, Kal\xe9ko, a virtuoso of puns, veers between sarcasm, irony, tender love, melancholy and deep despair, with verses so eminently musical that the melodies almost flow automatically when reading them. On the other hand, Whitman, with his rich and colourful language ex-pressing deep philosophical thoughts \u2013 sometimes in very long and elaborate phrases \u2013 fre-quently takes us on journeys to somewhere completely unexpected.\r
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I was critizised during my studies for my stubborn refusal to leave the tonal-modal soundworld of my music. The discussions, interesting as they were, were often ideological and rather in-timidating to me as a young student. I lost my voice for a couple of years and didn't write any-thing. My comeback came with the first two songs I ever wrote, one a Kal\xe9ko and one a Whitman setting: Gewissermassen ein Herbstgedicht and As if a Phantom Caress'd Me. I soon realised that writing music was never an ideological process for me, but an existential one \u2013 which was a true liberation. THIS is how I hear and feel my music inside me, and there-fore how it has to find its way onto the paper and from there to the listener's ear \u2013 compro-mises are not an option.\r
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These pieces are some of the most personal that I have written; almost a musical diary. They are the only pieces since I graduated that I wrote just for myself, between commissions with no specific performance in mind. They were born solely out of inner necessity and of my love for the genre and for the words I chose to set.

Silvan Loher - Lieder Nach Gedichten Von Mascha Kaleko,\xa0Band I Op. 7 -\xa0I. Interview Mit Mir Selbst

Silvan Loher - Lieder Nach Gedichten Von Mascha Kaleko,\xa0Band I Op. 7 -\xa0II. Konsequenz Des Herzens

Silvan Loher - Lieder Nach Gedichten Von Mascha Kaleko,\xa0Band I Op. 7 -\xa0III. Blasse Tage

Silvan Loher - Lieder Nach Gedichten Von Mascha Kaleko -\xa0IV. Auf Eine Leierkastenmelodie...

Silvan Loher - Lieder Nach Gedichten Von Mascha Kaleko,\xa0Band I Op. 7 -\xa0V. Herbst-Melancholie

Silvan Loher - Lieder Nach Gedichten Von Mascha Kaleko,\xa0Band I Op. 7 -\xa0VI. Geburtstag

Silvan Loher - Lieder Nach Gedichten Von Mascha Kaleko,\xa0Band I Op. 7 -\xa0VII. Agota

Silvan Loher - Lieder Nach Gedichten Von Mascha Kaleko,\xa0Band I Op. 7 -\xa0VIII. Kleines Liebeslied

Silvan Loher - Lieder Nach Gedichten Von Mascha Kaleko -\xa0IX. Wenn Man Nachts Nicht Schlafen Kann...

Silvan Loher - Lieder Nach Gedichten Von Mascha Kaleko\xa0-\xa0X. Gewissermassen Ein Herbstgedicht

Ten Poems By Walt Whitman Op. 6,\xa0Part I - I. To You

Ten Poems By Walt Whitman Op. 6,\xa0Part I - II. As If A Phantom Caress'd Me

Ten Poems By Walt Whitman Op. 6,\xa0Part I - III. Aroused And Angry

Ten Poems By Walt Whitman Op. 6,\xa0Part I - IV. A Prairie Sunset

Ten Poems By Walt Whitman Op. 6,\xa0Part I - V. A Clear Midnight

Ten Poems By Walt Whitman Op. 6,\xa0Part II - VI. Soon Shall The Winter's Foil Be Here

Ten Poems By Walt Whitman Op. 6,\xa0Part II - VII. Joy, Shipmate, Joy!

Ten Poems By Walt Whitman Op. 6,\xa0Part II - VIII. To The States

Ten Poems By Walt Whitman Op. 6,\xa0Part II - IX. Of Him I Love Day And Night

Ten Poems By Walt Whitman Op. 6,\xa0Part II - X. I Tramp A Perpetual Journey

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Please Note Not All Our New Items Are Shrink Wrapped.All items shipped within 3 working days of payment.Poetry has always been one of my biggest passions besides music. The two worlds are strongly connected: in many ways, poetry is music and music is poetry. Any poetry with which I connect strikes a musical chord in me, and the music I love most has a strong poetic quality about it.rrNo wonder, then, that a lot of the music that fascinates me comes from the marriage of the two fields. Since I was a kid, I have been transfixed by the correlation between text and mu-sic. How do meaning and emotion change when the words are sung instead of spoken? What layers does a composer add to a text when setting it to music? In what way does he or she interpret the words of the poet?rrWhen I set poetry to music, I always try to find the right 'voice' in which to translate the words into music. The two poets represented on this disc, Mascha Kalxe9ko and Walt Whitman, are amongst my absolute favourites; they have been an important part of my life for many years. The juxtaposition of these two distinct artistic temperaments is fascinating to me. On the one hand, Kalxe9ko, a virtuoso of puns, veers between sarcasm, irony, tender love, melancholy and deep despair, with verses so eminently musical that the melodies almost flow automatically when reading them. On the other hand, Whitman, with his rich and colourful language ex-pressing deep philosophical thoughts u2013 sometimes in very long and elaborate phrases u2013 fre-quently takes us on journeys to somewhere completely unexpected.rrI was critizised during my studies for my stubborn refusal to leave the tonal-modal soundworld of my music. The discussions, interesting as they were, were often ideological and rather in-timidating to me as a young student. I lost my voice for a couple of years and didn't write any-thing. My comeback came with the first two songs I ever wrote, one a Kalxe9ko and one a Whitman setting: Gewissermassen ein Herbstgedicht and As if a Phantom Caress'd Me. I soon realised that writing music was never an ideological process for me, but an existential one u2013 which was a true liberation. THIS is how I hear and feel my music inside me, and there-fore how it has to find its way onto the paper and from there to the listener's ear u2013 compro-mises are not an option.rrThese pieces are some of the most personal that I have written; almost a musical diary. They are the only pieces since I graduated that I wrote just for myself, between commissions with no specific performance in mind. They were born solely out of inner necessity and of my love for the genre and for the words I chose to set.

Silvan Loher - Lieder Nach Gedichten Von Mascha Kaleko,xa0Band I Op. 7 -xa0I. Interview Mit Mir Selbst

Silvan Loher - Lieder Nach Gedichten Von Mascha Kaleko,xa0Band I Op. 7 -xa0II. Konsequenz Des Herzens

Silvan Loher - Lieder Nach Gedichten Von Mascha Kaleko,xa0Band I Op. 7 -xa0III. Blasse Tage

Silvan Loher - Lieder Nach Gedichten Von Mascha Kaleko -xa0IV. Auf Eine Leierkastenmelodie...

Silvan Loher - Lieder Nach Gedichten Von Mascha Kaleko,xa0Band I Op. 7 -xa0V. Herbst-Melancholie

Silvan Loher - Lieder Nach Gedichten Von Mascha Kaleko,xa0Band I Op. 7 -xa0VI. Geburtstag

Silvan Loher - Lieder Nach Gedichten Von Mascha Kaleko,xa0Band I Op. 7 -xa0VII. Agota

Silvan Loher - Lieder Nach Gedichten Von Mascha Kaleko,xa0Band I Op. 7 -xa0VIII. Kleines Liebeslied

Silvan Loher - Lieder Nach Gedichten Von Mascha Kaleko -xa0IX. Wenn Man Nachts Nicht Schlafen Kann...

Silvan Loher - Lieder Nach Gedichten Von Mascha Kalekoxa0-xa0X. Gewissermassen Ein Herbstgedicht

Ten Poems By Walt Whitman Op. 6,xa0Part I - I. To You

Ten Poems By Walt Whitman Op. 6,xa0Part I - II. As If A Phantom Caress'd Me

Ten Poems By Walt Whitman Op. 6,xa0Part I - III. Aroused And Angry

Ten Poems By Walt Whitman Op. 6,xa0Part I - IV. A Prairie Sunset

Ten Poems By Walt Whitman Op. 6,xa0Part I - V. A Clear Midnight

Ten Poems By Walt Whitman Op. 6,xa0Part II - VI. Soon Shall The Winter's Foil Be Here

Ten Poems By Walt Whitman Op. 6,xa0Part II - VII. Joy, Shipmate, Joy!

Ten Poems By Walt Whitman Op. 6,xa0Part II - VIII. To The States

Ten Poems By Walt Whitman Op. 6,xa0Part II - IX. Of Him I Love Day And Night

Ten Poems By Walt Whitman Op. 6,xa0Part II - X. I Tramp A Perpetual Journey

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