Die Menschen
Sheet Music

SKU: NX.WER-62532

By Basler Sinfonie-Orchester, Boder, Chor des Theaters Basel, Danner, Diakov, Eger, Hardegger, Holland, Jalbert, Jones, Larsen, MacDonald, McGrath, Mydtskov, Overmann, Pia, Renard, Scheder, Stache, Steinberger, Stossinger, Trauboth, and Unger. By Detlev Muller-Siemens. Listening CD (2 discs). Wergo #WER 62532. Published by Wergo (NX.WER-62532).

"A whirling panopticon in which dreamlike images fly past, flaring up explosively in light and rapidly vanishing into the dark." What Detlev Muller-Siemens fascinated about Walter Hasenclever's play "People" - which the libretto of his opera is based on - was "its shorthand dialogues, often no more than a series of seperate words barely expressive of the plot." The scenes are closely interrelated, and deal with aspects of human existence - like birth, death, power, oppression, law, murder, fear, loneliness - which are contrasted with withdrawn, gentle and quiet moments, islands, so to speak. The character of the music evolves between these two poles: Two extremes - a metallic cutting shrillness pressing ahead in abrupt thrusts like a mechanical chain, and gentle lines circling and interlacing as if in weightless, foliage-like profusion - interact to produce an often highly fused form of polyphony between which the music autonomously transmutes, allowing the play, is complement and equal, as much scope as possible.

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