"In my relentless quest to rearrange images, I am like a child [...] I adorn myself like a madman with dried flowers that are still very much alive in my dreams." — Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet, p. 193.
Een jongere op zoek naar een toekomst, bestaanszekerheid en liefde: euforische dromen en dodende ontgoocheling. Tot hier niets nieuws. Twee eeuwen geleden vatte Wilhelm Müller deze universele queeste poëtisch in een bewust naïeve stijl met volkse eenvoud. Hij streefde naar de uitdrukking van een vurig en onbewust verlangen naar het meest verhevene. Het brandende resultaat smeult tot op vandaag in Schuberts onsterfelijke melodieën uit Die Schöne Müllerin, waarin een kabbelend beekje de spraakloze medereiziger is van de noodlottige.
For note-whisperer Daan Janssens, this song cycle forms the basis for a modern interpretation of a theme that transcends time and space. Schubert's composition is now the guide on this journey of discovery, sometimes bubbling at the surface, and at other times as a deeply hidden undercurrent.
Dreams and illusions are placed in a different perspective through the confrontation with Fernando Pessoa's The Book of Disquiet.
In Eine schöne Müllerin, Daan Janssens constructs a series of tableaux for baritone and instrumental ensemble, in which the reverberations of the original linger on, reflected in the mirror of today.
Daan Janssens,
Eine schöne Müllerin (2018)
Doppel-Zyklus voor mannenstem en negen instrumenten naar Die schöne Müllerin (Schubert/Müller) met toegevoegde teksten van Fernando Pessoa
Commissioned by SPECTRA, Festival 20/21 and Music Centre De Bijloke.
Supported by the School of Arts & Conservatory Ghent
SPECTRA o.l.v. Filip Rathé
Thomas Blondelle, tenor
Lise Bruyneel, beelden
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