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Alberto Posadas: Poética del camino
for six voices and ten instruments
Commissioned by ensemble recherche, the Neue Vocalsolisten and the WDR,
premiered on April 25 at the Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik 2020

I–Tan callando
II–Fremd bin ich eingezogen
III–Every stream, every suffering
IV–The dogs, the chains
V–Todo pasa
VI–I seek the footstep of the deer
VII–… everything has melted away

Neue Vocalsolisten
ensemble recherche
Markus Schwind, trumpet
Andrew Digby, trombone

Duration: approx. 70 minutes

Selected texts by Antonio Machado, Jorge Manrique, Wilhelm Müller and Hermann Hesse form the basis for the full-length cycle by Alberto Posadas. The path as poetic subject, as metaphor and symbol of becoming, transience and death. In his newly composed cycle, the Spanish composer establishes connections between text, instrumental and vocal music, and spatial setting.