• Rolf Wallin
  • ...though what made it has gone (1987)

  • Chester Music Ltd (World)

Commissioned by Hilde Torgersen and Kenneth Karlsson

  • mezzo soprano/pf
  • 15 min

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

Live in Bremen
  • Label
    LAWO
  • Catalogue Number
    LWC1252
  • Soloist
    Hilde Torgersen, mezzo soprano; Kenneth Karlsson, piano
  • Released
    2023

Botschaft des Ridicolas

 Botschaft des Ridicolas
  • Label
    LAWO
  • Catalogue Number
    LWC1217
  • Soloist
    Elisabeth Holmertz, soprano; Kenneth Karlsson, piano
  • Released
    2022

...though what made it has gone

...though what made it has gone
  • Label
    ALBEDO
  • Catalogue Number
    ALBCD 003
  • Soloist
    Hilde Torgersen, mezzo-soprano / Kenneth Karlsson, piano

...though what made it has gone

...though what made it has gone
  • Label
    AURORA CONTEMPORARY
  • Catalogue Number
    ACD 4961
  • Soloist
    Hilde Torgersen, mezzo-soprano / Kenneth Karlsson, piano

Move

Move
  • Label
    Hemera
  • Catalogue Number
    HCD 2903
  • Conductor
    Ingar Bergby (ning) / Christian Eggen (Solve et coagula)
  • Ensemble
    SISU Percussion Ensemble (Stonewave) / BIT 20 (ning) / Cikada Ensemble (Solve et coagula)
  • Soloist
    Hilde Torgersen, mezzo-soprano / Kenneth Karlsson, piano (Though what made it has gone)