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memoratorio for Kinderstimme + male sign soloist + narrator / double bass + concert guitar + e-guitar + orchestra + choir + live electronics

freely based on the etching No. 44 from the series Les Desastres de la Guerra by Françisco de Goya using musical quotations by Paul Dessau + Hans Werner Henze + Miguel de Fuenllana + Diego Pasador + Manuel de Falla

dramaturgy + libretto by Stefanie Wördemann

with poems by Federico García Lorca and texts by Hermann Kesten + Peter Weiss

audio conzeption + produktion + sound engenieering: Torsten Ottersberg / GOGH s.m.p.

commissioned by the Deutsche Symphonie-Orchesters Berlin and the Rundfunkchor Berlin

chief conductor and artistic director: Ingo Metzmacher

world premiere: 11 October 2008 in Berlin Philharmonie
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester and Rundfunkchor Berlin

conductor: Ingo Metzmacher

Dauer: 45 - 50 Minuten

C A S T

choir (80part, S/A/T/B 20 per voice group)

soloists:
boy soprano
male sign soloist
double bass / narrator
concert guitar (also electro accoustic guitar + banjo)

e-guitar

3 flutes (2. also aldto flute, 3. also piccolo flute)

2 oboes1 English horn in F

2 clarinets in B

1 bass clarinet in B

2 bassoons

1 contrabassoon

4 trumpets in C (requiring Harmon damper without plug-in tube)

3 horns in F

3 trumbones (reqiring metal and wood damper)

1 tuba (requiring a damper)

percussion 1:

snare drum, vibraphon, singing saw, plastic bag, cardboard/paper, bell tree, marimbaphon, various cymbals, bass drum, crash cymbals (overlapped + taped down), gongs, TamTam, steel block, glass pendulum

percussion 2:

vibraphon, marimbaphon, plastic bag, ardboard/paper, bell tree, snare drum, gongs, various cymbals, glockenspiel, steel block, bass drum, chinese opera gong, TamTam, cowbells, singing saw

percussion 3:

snare drum, vibraphon, wind machine, plastic bag, cardboard/paper, bell tree, glass pendelum, various cymbals, alpine bells, crash cymblas (overlapped + taped down), xylophon, steel block, bass drum, metal pendulum, singing saw

timpani

harp
prepared piano + celesta (1 player)

16 violins I
14 violins II
12 viola
10 violoncelli
8 double bass

B A C K