Neue Volkslieder und Hirtengesänge, bassoon, guitar and string trio, score and parts

Neue Volkslieder und Hirtengesänge, Partitur und Stimmen

The idea for this music is closely tied to the period during the 80s when I was stimulating cultural activity in smaller towns and villages in Styria. During that time, I had compiled a good number of sketches of Styrian folklore, (besides which I also particularly liked) and had composed songs for an amateur theatre performance given by young, artistically ambitious local people.From this and other similar material, I put together this small chamber work in the form of a folk-song out of a necessity to preserve something of the mood and atmosphere of this melancholy region, just as a dream or painful memory.- Hans Werner Henze

CONTENIDO:

I Pastorale
II Morgenlied
III Ballade
IV Tanz
V Rezitativ
VI Abendlied
VII Ausklang