Le lontane speranze (2023)
(for clarinet, basset horn soli and chamber orchestra)

Fragments from poems by Giacomo Leopardi, Nikolaus Lenau, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Japanese haikus form the poetic basis of the work's formal structure.

„... lonely nights...where the zephyr lifts...the distant shadows rise... „

(Leopardi: Canto XXXIII)

The music rises in fragile formations, night moods, descending eclipses, moonsets, wind sounds ... are depicted in musical metaphors and processed further.

A haiku interrupts the flow of the unconscious half-dream, only to give way to wild outbursts, which then sink back into melancholy night music.

This formal sequence is repeated with new content and greatly varied material from the previous work.

A longer section, an almost symphonic dark sound painting, refers to the song of the spirits over the waters (Goethe) as a dramaturgical low point:

Seele des Menschen, / Wie gleichst du dem Wasser! / Fate of man, / How like you are to the wind!

This is followed by a farewell song with clear references to the beginning of the piece, closing the arc, but also announcing the end of the night in a new haiku:

„...the nightingale, hark / accompanied with distant song / the sunrise....“

Le lontane speranze is warmly dedicated to the Wiener Concert - Verein