- Rolf Wallin
...though what made it has gone (1987)
- Chester Music Ltd (World)
Commissioned by Hilde Torgersen and Kenneth Karlsson
Programme Note
The text of the piece is taken from the poem 'Whoever Finds a Horseshoe' by the Jewish-Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, who died in one of Stalin's prisoner camps in 1938. I have used the lines in the original Russian text that spoke most strongly to me, both in terms of meaning and in terms of musically interesting sound combinations (the Russian language is full of them!). For those of us who do not understand Russian, small fragments of the English translation are heard now and then to give us hints of the multifaceted pictures of this fascinating poem.
Media
Wallin: Though what made it has gone
Discography
Live in Bremen
- LabelLAWO
- Catalogue NumberLWC1252
- SoloistHilde Torgersen, mezzo soprano; Kenneth Karlsson, piano
- Released2023
Botschaft des Ridicolas
- LabelLAWO
- Catalogue NumberLWC1217
- SoloistElisabeth Holmertz, soprano; Kenneth Karlsson, piano
- Released2022
...though what made it has gone
- LabelALBEDO
- Catalogue NumberALBCD 003
- SoloistHilde Torgersen, mezzo-soprano / Kenneth Karlsson, piano
...though what made it has gone
- LabelAURORA CONTEMPORARY
- Catalogue NumberACD 4961
- SoloistHilde Torgersen, mezzo-soprano / Kenneth Karlsson, piano
Move
- LabelHemera
- Catalogue NumberHCD 2903
- ConductorIngar Bergby (ning) / Christian Eggen (Solve et coagula)
- EnsembleSISU Percussion Ensemble (Stonewave) / BIT 20 (ning) / Cikada Ensemble (Solve et coagula)
- SoloistHilde Torgersen, mezzo-soprano / Kenneth Karlsson, piano (Though what made it has gone)