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Let me tell you is a song cycle for soprano and orchestra by the Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen. The work was commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic with support from the Danish Arts Foundation. It is based on the eponymous 2008 novel let me tell you by the writer Paul Griffiths.
Feb 17, 2016 · In the first song she sings 'Let me tell you how it was’, in No. 4 ‘Let me tell you how it is’, and in the last one she says 'I know you are there, I know I will find you...Let me tell you how it will be': the music here comes straight out of the very first canon from Schnee – the snow music itself!
Aug 22, 2016 · But the charismatic Canadian soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan has helped create a new piece that might change that and bring Abrahamsen worldwide attention. It's called "Let Me Tell...
Feb 14, 2016 · In the Abrahamsen, the sequence begins, “Let me tell you how it was. I know I can do this.”
Barbara Hannigan talks about Abrahamsen's work let me tell you. the Concert is available at www.gsoplay.com for free during March 2014...more.
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Feb 3, 2016 · Vocalist Barbara Hannigan and composer Hans Abrahamsen talked prior to a performance of Abrahamsen's 'let me tell you' about how they collaborated to bring the work to life and tailored...
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Hans Abrahamsen (born 23 December 1952) is a Danish composer born in Kongens Lyngby near Copenhagen. His Let me tell you (2013), a song cycle for soprano and orchestra, was ranked by music critics at The Guardian as the finest work of the 21st-century. [ 1 ]
