(SW1055)
Duration: ca. 13' 40''
As the title suggests, this work is in two parts. Ridil sets two hymn-like sun poems to music here, one by Hölderlin and the other by the anacreontic Johann Peter Uz from the Rococo period.
The two parts are accompanied, framed and held together by a clarinet solo singing in a variety of natural sounds.
The focus is, of course, on the two vocal parts, which increase to monumentally emphatic and are supplemented by a solo group, which is scored analogously to the choir, in which the characteristic glassy-crystalline sound of the pure upper choir without male voices is manifested. Of course, the concertante dialogue between solo group and choir also plays a major role.
Ridil's usual extraordinarily sensitive and highly artful and careful text development, partly syllabic, but also melismatic in exposed passages, also produces some real highlights in this work, for example when at one point in the second part a complete line of text is declaimed piece by piece through the solo voices, similar to a Hoquetus, certainly one of the most brilliant compositional inspirations of this great choral work.
Martin Schmeck
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