(SW1058)
Five letters by the important nature writer of German Romanticism, Joseph von Eichendorff, form the framework for this composition by Christian Ridil. The composer has selected letters from his Silesian compatriot with completely different and contradictory content, each of which is to be read out by a reciter and then musically “re-examined”, commented on and reflected upon by a solo guitarist. The different emotional worlds, ranging from soberly objective applications for employment to personal descriptions of the historical battlefields of 1814 to almost touching concerns about home and court, provide ample inspiration to strike very different notes in the individual postludes.
These musical “reflections” then take up the individual affects directly, ranging from the gently swaying mood in 5/8 time to the violent, almost hammering, trumpet “attacks” in the war descriptions as a lieutenant or the melancholy mourning lament at the death of the mother to the courtly dance.
The performer is always challenged musically and technically. The work is something very special due to its instrumentation and its formal structure and is suitable, for example, for a musically framed literary evening, but also for a special chamber music event.
Martin Schmeck