| 作曲者 | Gavin Bryars (b. 1943) |
| タイトル | The Last Days of Immanuel Kant |
| サブタイトル | for mixed choir |
| 出版社 | Schott・ショット |
| シリーズ名 | Choral Music of Our Time |
| 楽器編成 | mixed choir (SSAATTBB) a cappella |
| 品番 | mds9790220140068 |
| 言語 | 英語 |
| 形状 | 104 ページ・21 x 29.7 cm・349 g・スクエアバック |
| 作曲年 | 2023 - 2025年 |
| 出版番号 | ED 14150 |
| ISMN | 979-0-2201-4006-8 |
This large-scale choral work for 24 voices sets passages from Thomas de Quincey’s essay, an extraordinary text whose authorship is ambiguous, but which has, for me, something of the austerity and absurdity of Samuel Beckett. I once planned to make this into an opera but, instead, it has become a narrative cantata, describing the great philosopher’s gradual descent into senility and his eventual passing. It shows his increasingly incongruous obsessions and odd behaviour, contrasting this with the greatness of his mind. It is the third work I have written for the virtuoso Philadelphia-based choir The Crossing, following The Fifth Century (2014) and A Native Hill (2018-19). Gavin Bryars
I. Motto
II. Prologue
III. Dinner
IV. Conversation
V. The Old Tower
Interlude: Lament
VI. Four Decays
VII. Kant’s last travelling
VIII. February
IX. Postlude February 28th