Evening Land Symphony
For soprano and orchestra
- Year
- 1995
- Duration
- 30'
- Category
- Orchestra
- Instrumentation
- 3(3.pic).3(3.ca).3(3.bcl).3(3.cbsn)-4.3.3.1-timp.2perc(lg b.d, timb, tom-t, sus cym, tam-t, crot, tri)-hp.amp pno(hpd)-str
- Texts
- text by Par Lagerkvist | translation by Wystan Hugh Auden and Leif Sjoberg
- Commission
- Commissioned by the Barlow Endowment and the Saint Louis Symphony
- Premiere
- Premiere performance by the St. Louis Symphony, Leonard Slakin, Conductor, Linda Hohenfeld, Soprano, November 24, 1995, St. Louis Missouri
- Purchase
- Schott Helicon
Program Notes
Evening Land Symphony is an orchestral setting of the ninth collection of poems of Swedish nobel laureate Pär Lagerkvist, in which the writer considers universal themes of old age, the mystery of life and of God, loneliness and alienation.
Video
Joseph Schwantner (b. 1943) : "Evening Land" Symphony (1995)