Martin Hiendl - Compositions - Erwartung und Traumverlust (solo)

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»Erwartung und Traumverlust« (2009, revised 2011)

Solo for any female voice (15 min)
Score (pdf | 516 kb)
Recording (mp3 | 37 mb)

»all my visions and dreams!«
»putting my face on his chest«

»Or, rather, I violated her.«

Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, »Kesa and Morito«

Leslie Leytham premiered this piece on January 22nd, 2010 at the CPMC Concert Hall at the University of California San Diego.

Like the short-opera, this piece is based upon the short story »Kesa and Morito« by Ryūosuke Akutagawa, written in 1918. The novel is a ruthless psychological story about the fatalistic relationship between Kesa and Morito, which cannot live out their love, leading them to perversity and extreme violation and humiliation.

The story can be found here on page 25: »Kesa and Morito«

This piece is the core of the second and third scene of the opera, but it can also be sung as a solo for any female voice.
No text is being used. Rather, vowels and consonants are organized by the trajectory from sounds from the front of the mouth (the lips) to sounds from the far back of the mouth (the glottis).