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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.
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 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!
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, ...more.
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Feb 14, 2016 · They are drawn from Griffiths’s novel “let me tell you,” which constructs a portrait of Shakespeare’s Ophelia from the four-hundred-and-eighty-three-word vocabulary that the character is ...
Aug 22, 2016 · Stunned Silence, Then A Standing Ovation For 'Let Me Tell You' Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen explores questions of time, memory, nature and human isolation. His recent collaboration...
"Let me tell you" by Hans Abrahamsen took my heart and tore it to pieces, and it has swiftly become one of my favorite pieces of classical music. On a structural level, it is nothing short of brilliant and clever in a way that is more emotional than intellectual (watch the analysis for more on that).
