Martin Letelier

Soliloquy

True! - nervous - very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad? This is how Edgar Allan Poe's psychogram of a murderer begins in the short story "The Tell Tale Heart" and this is also how Martín Letelier's setting of this material begins. The text is in the foreground here, the story should be experienced at first hand and so Letelier casts a narrator to guide us through the action. The choir/vocal ensemble comments on, illustrates and underlines what is being told - in a sense, a choral melodrama unfolds. Perhaps Letelier has created a new genre for the choral world with this captivating composition that needs to be developed further? Musically and dramaturgically, the composer demonstrates great sensitivity and a courageous creative will. He has already won numerous prizes for his works. "Soliloquy" was awarded 2nd prize and the audience prize at the "Nocturne" competition, which was organized by Voktett Hannover as part of chor.com.