Alfrun Schmid, soprano
Elisabeth Smalt, viola
Lucas van Helsdingen, bass clarinet
Samuel Vriezen, keyboard
Poem: Peter Gizzi
Composition: Samuel Vriezen
Recorded by Marc Sabat
Live at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven 2015
Peter Gizzi's great poem Vincent,
Homesick for the Land of Pictures from his collection The
Outernationale was set to music as a long song, written
for the extended Trio Scordatura. It was premiered by Alfrun Schmid, Bob
Gilmore (keyboard), Elisabeth Smalt (viola) and Lucas van Helsdingen
(bass clarinet) at Poetry
International in Rotterdam in 2014, in the presence of the poet.
Trio Scordatura specializes in microtonally tuned music. For every one
of the fourteen stanzas of the poem and for the wordless middle, I
created a tuning in a different just intonation universe, giving each
stanza its own harmonic color. Click here
for technical details about the tuning and manner of playing, as well as
the poem's full text and a translation into Dutch.
In 2015, Trio Scordatura played the piece in the Van Abbemuseum in
Eindhoven, with myself replacing the late Bob Gilmore on keyboard. The
recording presented here is of that performance.
The poem and its translation were printed in a beautiful limited edition
by Studio
3005.