Sheet Music: Performance Parts
Towards Patmos (after Hölderlin) : for mixed quartet / Tom Henry.
by Tom Henry (2018)
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- Instrumentation: Flute (doubling piccolo), Bb clarinet, violin, cello, piano. (Flute and violin also double Chinese finger cymbals briefly. Violin also plays a handful of notes inside the piano).
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Audio Sample
Performance by Syzygy Ensemble from the CD Selected Works by AMC Represented Artists, vol. 108.
Product details
This work is a free meditation on the opening of the poem
'Patmos' by Friedrich Hölderlin:
'Near it is
And hard to grasp, the God.
But where there is danger
A rescuing force also grows.
The eagles dwell in darkness, and fearlessly
The children of the Alps cross the abyss
On insubstantial bridges.
Therefore, since the peaks of time are gathered high around us
And our dearest ones live near
(But growing dimmer on farthest separated mountains),
Give us pure water,
O give us wings to make the crossing and to return most faithfully.'
So, I spoke, when
Faster than I had ever imagined
I was carried to a place far away
Where I had never thought to go,
By a Genius from my own home.
The twilight was deepening as I went.
The shady forest,
The yearning streams of my homeland,
I no longer knew these regions.
But soon, in a fresh radiance,
Mysteriously,
In a golden haze,
Rising quickly as with steps of the sun
And fragrant with a thousand peaks
Asia burst into flower before me…'
Translation by Lorna Henry & Tom Henry ©2018
Published by: Australian Music Centre — 1 set of 5 performance parts (152p. -- B4 (portrait))
Difficulty: Advanced
Duration: 24 mins
First performance by Syzygy Ensemble — 7 Oct 18. Lowland Farm, Macedon, Vic
Part for the piano is a copy of the full score.
A podcast featuring a live performance of the work is here
Typeset edition.
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