Among his adoring students from Budapest is the exuberant violinist András Keller, for whom he wrote "Kafka Fragments" (1985-86), a sequence of settings for soprano and violin, which Keller has recorded on ECM with the radiant soprano Juliane Banse.
It begins with a three-part hymn to the Virgin from the Llibre Vermeli, a 14th-century manuscript in the monastery of Montserrat near Barcelona, before a sequence of settings by the three great composers of the Spanish golden age, Lobo, Guerrero and Victoria, as well as by lesser-known figures such as Philippe Rogier, Joao IV of Portugal and Manuel Cardoso.
Another work from the same period, the early 90's, is "Pulse Shadows," a sequence of Paul Celan settings and interludes for string quartet.
Appropriately for a singer who speaks excellent French, the first was C'Est l'Extase, a sequence of 10 settings by Debussy of the poet Paul Verlaine, "arranged, linked, and scored with an epilogue by Robin Holloway", as the published score puts it – though a couple were omitted in this performance.
Each has devised a sequence of psalm settings and antiphons parallel to Monteverdi's; Rinaldo Alessandrini using works by Vivaldi such as might have been used for the Vespers service in Italy, and Peter Neumann with works of Heinrich Schutz that might just as probably, if surprisingly, have been brought together in Protestant Germany.
Her song cycle "Hurry" — a sequence of Boris Pasternak settings in English translation, commissioned for Dawn Upshaw's "Perspectives" series at Carnegie Hall in 2004 — closes the New York-début recital of this young soprano at Carnegie's Weill Recital Hall.
The advert, made by justpray.uk, shows a sequence of people in different settings saying the Lord's Prayer.
A sequence-of-tenses problem.
The soprano line, with its sequence of settings of three Polish texts, covers the richest, warmest, part of Bullock's voice, and it was compassion rather than any overt drama that gave a certain aura to her singing, transcending the anguished pain of the words and elevating it to a ritual of lament.
We dated the top of such surfaces with different age ranges and geomorphic settings in a sequence of alluvial fans in Nahal Shehoret in the southern Negev and in a sequence of terraces in Nahal Ze'elim and in Nahal Zin, two adjacent drainage basins in the Judean Desert, Israel.
If there is a sequence of letters starting with "at" in the Extra settings box, simply type "m0".
