Une interview instructive...
https://www.billboard.com/articles/news ... -interview
Tell me about the final piece, the "Requiem Addendum," which is in Latin and is a continuation of the "Prussian Requiem," but sounds much more personal.
Sadly, what happened is the first performance of the "Prussian Requiem" was everything you'd want for your world premiere of this piece, but I couldn't be there. My wife had been getting very, very ill, and the performance finished in London mid-afternoon our time [in Los Angeles] -- and she died two hours later. I couldn't be there. I'm glad I was where I was. But [there's] this thing where you write a requiem, and who is it for? Suddenly I realized, "Wait, was I writing a requiem for my wife?" Because I didn't think she was going to die, she was going to have a bone marrow transplant and she just didn't make it. It suddenly dawned on me, "What have I done?"
We all have this magical thinking -- you assume everything revolves around you. And I wrote a requiem, so it must have been for my wife... [as if] I knew she was going to die. But I had no idea she was going to die. So then I asked, "How do I put this in context?" I'd written some words about my last moments with her and I got them translated into Latin because it was just too hard to set. I realized I had to write a requiem to the requiem. So the "Requiem Addendum" is a requiem to writing to my wife... the idea of writing a requiem. So the album is really just five years of my going from the joy of trying to celebrate women, to the process of trying to understand the madness of men, and the "Addendum," which is about living with women, and how we are different.
If you listen to it, it's two pieces simultaneously. The voices of the women are one piece, and the voices of the men are the other, and they happen to flow in and out of each other. Sometimes they work together, sometimes they don't, and slowly by the end you hear the women stop, and you're left with men. It’s a metaphor, but also something I felt I had inside me I needed to say -- and it allowed me close the whole loop of that period of my life. Those works, which were optimism, the pain of the experience and the reflection upon it, are the three works on the album.
Une version autre complète ici, mais bon, devant l'ordi c'est pas pareil, faut s'immerger... Sinon, il y a sa symphonie "Kaddish" avec chœur et récitant (plus lugubre...), et les "Chichester Psalms", c'est un peu plus classique et excellent aussi !
Merci pour les recommandations.
J'avoue que le style franchement liturgique de l'Addendum, sincère et beau, m'avait fait d'emblée dresser l'oreille par rapport au style plus "concert" ou "BO" du reste. Je comprends mieux pourquoi.
