Soloist(s) and Orch./Ens. and/or Choir
With live-electronics
With electroacoustics ("tape")
Instrumentation (general)
1992
25' 00"
soprano, orchestra and electronics
soprano, orchestra and electronics
Document title Visão
Date of Composition· 1992
Instrumentation
Musical Category Soloist(s) and Orch./Ens. and/or Choir
With live-electronics
With electroacoustics ("tape")
Instrumentation (general) soprano, orchestra and electronics
Premiere
Date 1992/May/09
Performer(s)
Mireille Capelle (soprano)
Gulbenkian Orchestra
Michel Swierczewski (conductor)
Organization/Event 16th Gulbenkian Encounters of Contemporary Music
Venue Lisbon University Rectory - Aula Magna
Town Lisbon
Country Portugal
Text / Lyrics
Title of Poem or Text Psalm 34
Title of Book or Collection Bible
Text (Joel 2: 28-32)
Vehaya 'ahre-ken
'espok 'et-ruhi 'al-kol-basar
venibu benekem ubnotekem
ziqnekem halomot yahlomun
bahurekem hezyonot yir'u
vegam 'al-ha'abadim ve'al-hassefahot
bayyamim hahemma 'espok 'et-ruhi
venatatti mofetim bassamayim uba'arez
dam va'es vetimarot 'asan
hassemes ehafek lehosek
vehayyareah ledam
lifne bo' yom yahve
haggadol vehannora'
vehaya kol 'aser-yiqra' besem yahve yimmalet
Translation:
And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and
your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams,
your young men shall see visions:
And also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days I will pour out my
spirit.
And I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars
of smoke.
The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great
and terrible day of the Lord come.
And it shall come to pass, that whosoever shall call the name of the Lord shall be delivered.
Notes
Fragments from psalm 34
Program Notes
The work Visão belongs to a group of seven works inspired by the prophecies of the Bible (Old and New Testament).
The text used in this work is from the book of Joel, in the Old Testament. It refers to the happenings to come in the last days of the world, before the second coming of the Lord. The language used is the original one, the hebrew.
This work was commissioned by the Gulbenkian Foundation and was premiered in 1992, by the Gulbenkian Orchestra at the Contemporary Music Festival.
This work received the first prize at the competition from the City Council of Lisbon in 1995.
Commission
Date 1989
Commissioning Body Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation - Music Service
