Utwory na płycie:

• I Will Come Back X. Sign the Contract
• I Will Come Back XI. Save Him from His Mother
• I Will Come Back XII. My Father Is a Stain on the Ceiling
• I Will Come Back XIII. Rain / Let Me Sit Closer
• I Will Come Back XIV. We Don't Talk About the War
• I Will Come Back XV. Healing Hands
• I Will Come Back XVI. Carl's Solo
• I Will Come Back XVII. Come, Stones, Help Me
• I Will Come Back XVIII. A New Life
• I Will Come Back XIX. Waltz with Rollators
• I Will Come Back I. Java. Rain. Palm Trees
• I Will Come Back XX. Let Me Help You Back to Bed
• I Will Come Back XXI. To Hell with Your Water
• I Will Come Back XXII. The Cosmic Garden
• Six Poems by William Butler Yeats I. The Wheel
• Six Poems by William Butler Yeats II. The Song of Wandering Aengus
• Six Poems by William Butler Yeats III. To an Isle in the Water
• Six Poems by William Butler Yeats IV. O Do Not Love Too Long
• Six Poems by William Butler Yeats V. Two Songs of a Fool
• Six Poems by William Butler Yeats VI. The Second Coming
• Six Poems by William Butler Yeats VII. The Wheel (reprise)
• I Will Come Back II. A Sitting Room
• I Will Come Back III. Bengawan Solo
• I Will Come Back IV. They Married, and Left for Java
• I Will Come Back V. Rain. The Letter
• I Will Come Back VI. Photo's / Dance
• I Will Come Back VII. The Son Enters / Conversation About Carl
• I Will Come Back VIII. Yes, Tell Us
• I Will Come Back IX. Tell Me About Your Asian War

I Will Come Back
Six Poems by William Butler Yeats

I will come back is a chamber opera by Robert Groslot, based on the book I'm coming back (Ik kom terug) by Adriaan van Dis, who also wrote the libretto. In the novel, the son describes his difficult relationship with his mother, with whom Robert has a certain affinity. The chamber opera is accompanied by Six Poems by William Butler Yeats. On this album, Groslot excels in his compositions combining literature and musical grammar. The opera is performed by soloists Héloise Mas and Thomas Oliemans, accompanied by the Vlaams Radiokoor and Brussels Philharmonic soloists.

"Words trigger something in me which subsequently becomes music"

Over the past decade, Groslot has primarily been a prolific composer with a unique position in the contemporary music landscape. Groslot eschews the atonal excesses of modernism, deliberately pushing for accessibility to the listener and playing pleasure for the performer, but he never succumbs to the cinematic banality of postmodern music. In the compositions to which this recording is devoted, an extra dimension emerges: Groslot's literary imagination and the intuitive fusing of linguistic and musical grammar which transpire in the chamber opera I will come back and the Six Poems by William Butler Yeats.

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Recordings: Flagey Studio 4, Brussels (Belgium), November 16 to 20, 2020 (I Will Come Back); Jezuietenkerk, Lier (Belgium), July 1 to 2, 2021 (Six Poems).