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barbara hannigan sings the seventh song from hans abrahamsen’s “let me tell you,” a song cycle for soprano using only words spoken by shakespeare’s ophelia

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Listen to Abrahamsen: Schnee by Ensemble Recherche. 2015. 13 tracks. 59 minutes.

Winter vibe. This work is still one of my faves.

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New Music at the NY Phil

The first all new music at the Philharmonic this year was at their Sound On event. Music by Chaya Czernowin and Hans Abrahamsen.

Czernowin's "Unforseen Dusk; bones into wings" is a sort of concertante work for 6 singers (the Neue Vocalsolisten) and orchestra. (Upon first reading this in the notes all I could think of was Sinfonia, but then the piece started.) I wrote down "glowing wave of sound" in the first solo that starts off the piece. This is a phenome piece, not a sung text piece -- a lot of breathy singing (and sprechstimm'ing) that may or may not be over-tracked with a recording. (At times it sounded like it, but I didn't seem to find it in the notes, so maybe that was just my imagination.) Czernowin seems mostly concerned with integrating and creating un-heard sound effects in the piece -- this may be much of her emphasis. Did I admire this piece -- yeah, but didn't love it.

I enjoyed the second piece, Hans Abrahamsen's "Ver le silence (Toward Silence)" more. Most striking was the playing with structure. A busy first movement that ended with an outstanding bell-like bowing effect in the strings. The second movement seemed to repeat the emphasis of the first movement, as if recasting it in a different way (or just not differentiating them enough). Here though, it seems almost like the piece is running purposefully out of momentum. The last movement, 'Very Slow, Darkly Flowing" is perhaps structured the best, as it winds down to silence. It isn't as much of a crowd-pleasing finale as Czernowin's, but I still thought it worked better.

We had a bunch of Julliard students augmenting the orchestra -- perhaps, this was why we could have two full-size difficult orchestral pieces on the program. A better start than the way that the NYPhil has sometimes treated the Sound On programs as a bastard stepchild, hosted out of the main hall.

Wednesday, 29 October 2025, NY Philharmonic, Brad Lubman conducting, w/ the Neue Vocalsolisten and Students from Julliiard, David Geffen Hall

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Tadej Pogačar OK in crash; Abrahamsen wins Tour de France stage

Jul 16, 2025, 11:46 AM ET TOULOUSE, France — Norwegian rider Jonas Abrahamsen attacked from the beginning and gained the eleventh stage of the Tour de France whereas race favourite Tadej Pogačar crashed close to the end Wednesday. Pogačar, the three-time champion, crashed with about 2.5 miles remaining. His rivals for the final classification slowed down so he may get again on his bike and rejoin…

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Hans Abrahamsen (1952) let me tell you (2013) Barbara Hannigan, soprano Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks Andris Nelsons, conductor Artwork by Anz...

Clásica del siglo XXI #326 / 9/10 / 2013

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Hans Abrahamsen: 'You never know how a piece will end up' | Music

Hans Abrahamsen: ‘You never know how a piece will end up’ | Music

Congratulations on Let Me Tell You being named the greatest classical work of the 21st century. Do you think it’s the best work of the century so far?!

Thank you! This is fantastic news – I feel humbled and honoured, but no, I can’t judge for myself. If we look back now to the beginning of the 20th century, think how many works from that period that weren’t celebrated at the time. I’m sure it…

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