Composer Axel Borup-Jørgensen
Instrumentation sop, mez, alt solo + 1.1.0.1/0.0.0.0/2 perc/pno/1.1.1.0.0
Category 7+ Instruments
Publication year 1996
Catalogue no. A.0395
Duration 11 minutes
Winterelegie
(1968)
(1968)
Composer Axel Borup-Jørgensen
Instrumentation sop, mez, alt solo + 1.1.0.1/0.0.0.0/2 perc/pno/1.1.1.0.0
Category 7+ Instruments
Publication year 1996
Catalogue no. A.0395
Duration 11 minutes
The life of Hölderlin (1770-1843) exhibits the basic pattern of the Romantic genius in many ways. Among the friends of his youth, insanity is the common mode of departure from this world. With Hölderlin, it becomes an infinitely extended interregnum between life and death, long years of quiet waiting and solitary monologues.
It struck me recently that Schubert’s Winterreise might well be the story of Hölderlin’s journey into insanity; indeed, it could almost have been his travel journal when - as if in flight - he set off on his last journey in 1802 from Bordeaux over the Haute-Auvergne to Stuttgart. The wandering towards the final release is a 40-year long wandering without a geographical goal. - All within the space of four walls in a tower in Tübingen.
Winterelegie is based partly on Brueghel’s gloomy winter picture ”The Return of the Hunters”, and partly on the second stanza of Hölderlin’s poem ”Hälfte des Lebens”.
- Axel Borup-Jørgensen
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Orchestra
12 minutes
2.2.2.0/4.0.0.0/hp/pno/6.5.4.0.0
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1963 • Axel Borup-Jørgensen
2-6 Instruments
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1956 • Axel Borup-Jørgensen
7+ Instruments
11:15 minutes
Vla solo + 8 perc, pno
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1965 • Axel Borup-Jørgensen
2-6 Instruments
17 minutes
2 vl, vla, vlc, tape
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1970 • Axel Borup-Jørgensen
Orchestra
22 minutes
3.3.3.3/4.3.3.1/4perc/pno/timp/15.13.10.9.8
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1977 • Axel Borup-Jørgensen
7+ Instruments
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1974 • Axel Borup-Jørgensen
Solo
11 minutes
Guitar solo
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1962 • Axel Borup-Jørgensen
7+ Instruments
9 minutes
Alto solo + fl, cl, fg, perc, pno, vla, vlc
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1973 • Axel Borup-Jørgensen
2-6 Instruments
15 minutes
vl, pno
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Solo
Descant Recorder Solo
Carambolage
1980 • Axel Borup-Jørgensen
2-6 Instruments
perc, el-pno, el-org, keyb, el-gtr
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1974 • Axel Borup-Jørgensen
7+ Instruments
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1961 • Axel Borup-Jørgensen
2-6 Instruments
mar, pno, vla
Intermedio
1977 • Axel Borup-Jørgensen
Solo
1:30 minutes
Flute solo
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1972 • Axel Borup-Jørgensen
2-6 Instruments
16 minutes
fl, pno, 2 vl, vla, vlc
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1963 • Axel Borup-Jørgensen
2-6 Instruments
7 minutes
mez solo, pno
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1974 • Axel Borup-Jørgensen
2-6 Instruments
10:30 minutes
String Quartet
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1963 • Axel Borup-Jørgensen
Choir
6 minutes
female choir (9 voices)