 
Così fan tutte
Don Carlo, Falstaff
Die Fledermaus
Concert 2001
Narrated Music
Shir Ha Shirim
Notes
Paumgartner
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who am i...?
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Hans Zender
On my Canto VIII – Shir Ha Shirim
With Shir ha Shirim I struck my final blow for freedom and determined my own musical world.
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| Hans Zender Photo: Marion Kalter |
All my life I was attracted by the idea of using The Canticle of Canticles as the basis for a great work. I had to wait a long time until I felt my technique of composition was advanced enough to enable me to set about this task. It has as soloists a soprano and a tenor (bride and bridegroom) and they are accompanied by a solo flute and a solo trombone. These two instruments introduce virtuoso in-concert-performance elements into the cantata character of the work. They are connected via a keyboard to a ring modulator and the ensuing modulation stands in close relationship to the developed harmonics of the whole piece. In this harmonic arrangement, each individual sound is based on the development of a certain basic interval which is achieved by adding to it its sum and difference tones (the so-called combination tones). By means of this harmonic structure I feel I have escaped from the bottleneck in which music found itself after the serial epoch and which had led to the degeneration of harmony. It has become possible to gain control over micro-intervals and make them perceptible to the ear. The two tones that constitute the basic interval of each sound are for me "bride and bridegroom" in a purely musical sense. It has become possible to generatively develop all sounds away from each other in different directions. Relationships exist, and within these relationships there is a hierarchy.
Solomon's Canticle of Canticles
Thursday, 30 August
7 p.m.
Kleines Festspielhaus
Zender Shir Ha Shirim
Soloists
Julie Moffat soprano
Matthias Klink tenor
Roswitha Staege flute
Uwe Dierksen trombone
Conductor Sylvain Cambreling
SWR Symphony Orchestra
Baden-Baden and Freiburg
SWR Vocal Ensemble
Shir Ha Shirim
Tickets for the performance
on 30 August at ATS 300, 500, 700 and 900 are available from
the Ticket Office of the Salzburg Festival.
Telephone: 0662/8045-579,
Telefax: 0662/8045-760.