for | 2 voices (SMez) |
Musical Editions | Score |
Item no. | 492846 |
Author / Composer | Kaija Saariaho |
Language | english |
Scope | 18 pages |
Year of origin | 1988 |
Release year | 2002 |
Publisher / Producer | Wilhelm Hansen Musikforlag |
Producer No. | KP 00280 |
ISBN | 9788759851951 |
A setting texts by Sylvia Plath, this 1988 work is for Soprano and Mezzo Soprano voices. Commissioned for the 1988 Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival. A cycle of five duets, the texts originate from Plath's novel The Bell Jar and from the poem Paralytic from the Ariel collection.