Ausgabe für Violoncello (Fagott) und Klavier. Schwierigkeitsgrad: mittel.
Ben-Haim conceived his »Three Songs Without Words« as Vocalises for high voice and piano but later occurred to him that the songs lent themselves as well to instrumental performances; the various for solo instrument and piano are the composer's own arrangements of the Vocalises. The composer explains the three parts of this little Suite as »tone-picture of a oriental mood« and he adds that »whoever's imagination needs additional prompting may think that the long-breathed melodies of the Arioso were inspired by the mood of a summer day's pitiless heat in the bare Judean Hills, while the Ballad pictures the monotonous babbling of an oriental story-teller; the last song is based on a traditional folk tune of Sephardic-Jewish origin – a veritable pearl which I have only given a setting«.
Regarding the instrumental performances, the composer has said that »an instrumentalist playing the Three Songs should renounce all tendencies of virtuoso brilliance in favour of a purely melodic expression«. The Three Songs Without Words (which were written in 1952) take about 9 minutes in performance.
Komponist: Paul Ben-Haim.
Titel: 3 Lieder ohne Worte.
Verlag: Israel Music Institute IMI7364.
Inhalt:
- Arioso
- Ballad
- Sephardic Melody