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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!
Barbara Hannigan talks about Abrahamsen's work let me tell you. the Concert is available at www.gsoplay.com for free during March 2014.
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Jan 29, 2017 · This post explores Hans Abrahamsen’s use of constraint as a compositional technique in his song “let me tell you how it was.” It begins with some background on the work’s creators, briefly discussing their various literary, feminist and disability studies perspectives on constraint.
Mar 4, 2014 · Hans Abrahamsen: "Let me tell you" for soprano and orchestra / Barbara Hannigan, soprano · Andris Nelsons, conductor · Berliner Philharmoniker / Recorded at the Berlin Philharmonie, 21...
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Aug 22, 2016 · His music explores questions of time and memory, nature and human isolation. And what is music if not time, Ophelia sings in "Let Me Tell You." Time of now and then tumbled into one...
Apr 14, 2015 · Let me tell you how it is, for you are the one who made me more than I was, you are the one who loosed out this music. The snow flowers are all like each other and I cannot keep my eyes...
