Score (Study Score)
SKU: HL.49044193
For Two Clarinets, Brass and Strings with Baritone Solo. Composed by Alexander Goehr. This edition: Saddle stitching. Sheet music. Study Score. Classical, Contemporary. Softcover. Composed 2009-2010. Op. 85. 82 pages. Duration 30'. Schott Music #ED13672. Published by Schott Music (HL.49044193).
ISBN 9790220134661. UPC: 888680058838. 8.25x11.5x0.43 inches. English - German.
This major work from Alexander Goehr reflects upon the diametrically opposing roles towers can have. The composer writes 'Towers embody the idea of climbing upwards, in the spiritual as much as in the physical sense. Their destruction can be regarded as a punishment (or as a rescue from) man's overwhelming arrogance.'Using texts by Franz Kafka, 17th century mystic Jacob Boehme and Swiss writer Friedrich Durrenmatt, Goehr explores man's desire to build towers to draw closer to God whilst the works feel nothing but despair at the fruitfulness of such a task.
