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Music Text

from sonnets by Willem Kloos and reminiscences by Marie Curie from Francoise Giroud's 'Une femme honorable'

Scoring

Female speaker-2S.2A.2T.2B
3.4.5.2bcl.dbcl.0-4.4.4.1-perc(6):glsp;vib(4 hands);11gongs;
snare dr/BD/string drum/lg.rattle/3lg.cowbells/belltree/tam-t/timp/
2bellplate-cel-harp-2pft-2synth-2gtr-bass gtr-strings(2.2.2.2.1)

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Publisher

Boosey & Hawkes

Territory
This work is available from Boosey & Hawkes for the world.

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Press Quotes

"The relentlessness with which this musical monolith pursues its course is an image of the inevitability of death, characterized as an instrumental chorale whose individual chords are rotated across the orchestral texture - drawn gradually closer together in an impressive climax..." Musical Times

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Cindy Oswin/Netherlands Chamber Choir/
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