Berthold Goldschmidt
Deux Nocturnes
Dramatic arias
Berthold Goldschmidt
Deux Nocturnes
Dramatic arias
- Instrumentation Orchestra, High Voice and Orchestra
- Composer Berthold Goldschmidt
- Series Hawkes Pocket Scores
- Edition Study Score
- Publisher Boosey & Hawkes
- Order no. BH6501424
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Description:
These two settings of French texts for soprano and orchestra were Goldschmidt final compositions. The first, Judith by Pierre le Moyne (1602-71), describes the Jewish woman who wreaks vengeance on her Assyrian captor Holofernes by creeping into his tent at night and cutting off his head with a sword. The second, Rondel, sets a poem by Tristan Corbiere (1845-75), a highly unconventional writer who spent his life in complete obscurity in Brittany and was posthumously discovered by Verlaine. Together, these 'dramatic arias' form a moving and fitting close to Goldschmidt's compositional career with an economy of expression, line and gesture characteristic of his late style. Each aria may be performed separately if desired.