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• Series: Boosey & Hawkes Chamber Music
• Publisher: Simrock
• Format: Softcover
• Viola
• Composer: Wolfgang-Andreas Schultz
• Price: 18.99 (US)

A triptych is a three-part altarpiece. In the middle of these fantasies for viola stands a biblical psalm, on the sides each a poem from the 20th century, which refers to psalms. After Georg Trakl's “De Profundis”, the first fantasy captures the lonely landscape at the beginning of the poem and the yearning voice of the orphan girl. In the second fantasy (after the 23rd Psalm Davids) pastoral-comforting mood frames the heaviness of the “Wandering in the dark valley”. The third fantasy of Paul Celan's “Psalm” lets the music emerge from the void, unfolding a melody with discreet allusions to psalmodody and Jewish music, which, despite shadowy clouding, ultimately allows for flowering (“above the thorn”).

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