Caroline Charrière
Quatuor Ophelia
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Caroline Charrière
Quatuor Ophelia
- Instrumentation String Quartet
- Composer Caroline Charrière
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Difficulty Level
- Edition Sheet Music
- Publisher Editions Bim
- Order no. BIM-QC11
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Description:
The idea came to me suddenly: It would be Undine or Ophelia, in any case with a connection to water. When I reread the two stories, I decided on Shakespeare's heroine Ophelia, a touching portrayal of innocence, wounded by Hamlet and finding redemption in death. I wanted to portray this pure soul, the inner turmoil, the salvific death and the great peace, like a bird's song. Thus the titles of the three movements were also given: Innocence - Wound - Death and Peace.
The wonderful poems from Le Livre d'Ophélie by the Vaudois poet Anne Perrier accompanied me in my work and confirmed my premonitions about this story.
I placed her last poem above the third sentence:
Épitaphe
Jardins de la douleur
Saignez loin de ma tombe
Ici tout n'est qu'ombre et splendeur
Et gorge de colombe
Elle dort Ophélie
Au fond des marbres verts
De l'or plein les pupilles
Et dans son cœur la mer
(Anne Perrier)
Caroline Charrière, Fribourg (Switzerland), December 2007
The string quartet Ophelia was commissioned by the Amar Quartet and was performed on March 15, 2006 at the Villa Boveri. March 2006 at the Villa Boveri in Baden (Switzerland).
The wonderful poems from Le Livre d'Ophélie by the Vaudois poet Anne Perrier accompanied me in my work and confirmed my premonitions about this story.
I placed her last poem above the third sentence:
Épitaphe
Jardins de la douleur
Saignez loin de ma tombe
Ici tout n'est qu'ombre et splendeur
Et gorge de colombe
Elle dort Ophélie
Au fond des marbres verts
De l'or plein les pupilles
Et dans son cœur la mer
(Anne Perrier)
Caroline Charrière, Fribourg (Switzerland), December 2007
The string quartet Ophelia was commissioned by the Amar Quartet and was performed on March 15, 2006 at the Villa Boveri. March 2006 at the Villa Boveri in Baden (Switzerland).