Located in the UK
Located in the USA
Located in Europe
- Maja S. K. Ratkje
A whisper, or a prayer, or a song (2022)
- Edition Wilhelm Hansen Copenhagen (World)
- 1+pic+afl.2+ca.1+ebcl+bcl.2+cbn/4331/timp.3perc/pf(cel).hp/str
- 15 min
Programme Note
Starting from open strings like an intense whisper, or is it a prayer? The wide open intervals emerge and spread throughout the orchestra, land like lengthy, contrived sentences eventually falling to the ground, but start anew, rising like a song, more songs, lacking voice, but still… There is yet hope, fragile, but moving.
The title is a quotation from Aasne Linnestå’s libretto for Revelations (This Early Song), published by Edition Wilhelm Hansen in 2017, a work for string quartet and mezzo which A Whisper, or a Prayer or a Song relates to.
Media
Scores
Features
- Our Earth | Focus on...Climate Change
- Celebrate the environmental consciousness of Wise Music Group composers as we explore the meeting of art and activism in compositions which echo the urgent call of our planet.
Discography
More Info
- Nordic - A Fragile Hope, nature concert and recording
- 21st February 2024
- New works by Maja S. K. Ratkje and Outi Tarkiainen premieres in Gothenburg