Sheet Music for Voices: Mezzo Soprano & Bass

Mezzo-Sopran und Klavier

Mezzo-Sopran und Klavier

From Doubt, an opera in two acts. Bariton und Klavier, englisch.

From Doubt, an opera in two acts. Mezzo-Sopran und Klavier, englisch.

The musical settings of Michelangelo's poems for baritone and piano are, over long sections, a dark monologue which is interrupted, commented and continued by sonorous figures in the piano.

The work is in two parts. 'Lamento di Guerra I' was written in the wake of the Gulf War; an initially plaintive lamentation turns more urgent and ends in howling. 'Lamento di Guerra II', triggered by...