“I (the defeat of the personal) - XII. Take this morning (for instance)” (by Igor Ballereau)

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1-15 :  I (the defeat of the personal) Words by Katherine Mansfield from her Journal (1907-1922)

Voice, violin, viola and cello - [2009-2010]1

1 - I. Opening (and shutting)

2 - II. Quite impersonally

3 - III. Ida and I

4 - IV. Everybody sleeps but I (the train shatters through the darkness)

5 - V. I was He

6 - VI. Living Alone

7 - VII. The high luxury of not having to explain

8 - VIII. From a series of Heavens

9 - IX. Verses (which seemed so awfully good in my girlhood)

10 - X. December 19

11 - XI. Only to breathe was enough

12 - XII. Take this morning (for instance)

13 - XIII. One fades

14 - XIV. I have left undone those things which I ought to have done and I have done those things which I ought not to have done

15 - XV. Let it be a poem

16-25 : Briefe an F. (...die Nacht ist noch zu venig Nacht...) Ten songs based on Kafka's letters to Felice Bauer

Voice and piano - [2004-2005]

16 - I - Auf der Seite

17 - II - Saugend

18 - III - Winzige

19 - IV - Gegenüber

20 - V - In tiefer Nacht

21 - VI - Gegen das Gesicht

22 - VII - Hinein

23 - VIII - Irgendeinem Himmel

24 - IX - Stachelige Erde

25 - X - Als Blut

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1-15 recorded at Avatar studios, New York - July 30-31 2010, and 16-25 recorded at Clinton studios, New York - June 24 2009 by Bryan Smith