Title	Lamentations de Jérémie
Article no.	3197327
Category	Orchestra/chamber music
Subcategory	String orchestra, ensemble
Instrumentation	StrO (string orchestra)
Format	Prt (full score)
Country of publication	Switzerland (ch)
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Year of publication	2000
Composer	Schlaepfer, Jean-Claude
Performer	Camerata Bern
Duration	7:00
Additional info/contents	'I, Jeremy, am sad at heart. There are no remedies to heal my sorrow...' This is the passage from 'Jeremy's Lamentations' which has, in all humility, inspired me, the composer states, and his sound portrait is indeed strongly inspired by that poignant sentence, showing the deep disarray and mental anguish of those who suffer from despair. The multifarious string voices emerge almost imperceptibly from silence in the form of amorphous rustling sounds that slowly are amplified and developed as these sonic murmurs merge in an intensely dramatic manner leading to brutal fortissimi followed by explosive silences or, in some instances, by decrescendi symbolically reflective of submission, before resuming the lamentations that persist until the final breath. This seven minute work composed in 2000 was written with the same intensity and sense of dramatic soberness that characterises all of Jean-Clauden Schlaepfer's works. The 'Lamentations of Jeremy', orchestrated for 14 strings (8 violins, 3 altos, 2 violoncellos and one contrabbass) is a precious and delicate masterwork, with a modernity of writing that reflects the tumultuous times in which we live. Jean-Pierre Mathez This work was premiered in St Moritz (Switzerland) in 2000 during the Festival of Suisse Musicians (composers) by the Camerata of Bern conducted by Heinz Holliger. Weight: 0.11
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