Herbsttag (Jour d'automne) - pour chœur de jeunes filles (SSMezAA) a cappella sur un poème de Rainer Marie Rilke. girl's choir (SSMezAA) a cappella. Partition de chœur.

This six-minute madrigal setting was commissioned by the renowned Hanover Girls' Choir and composed on the basis of one of Rainer Maria Rilke's profound poems. It begins as a thanksgiving prayer : for the summer, for the autumn fruits. But the first winds bring along the fear of the cold and loneliness of winter : 'Whoever is alone now will remain so for a long time, will stay up, read, write long letters...
'. Peter Eötvös lets the poem unfold twice, each time in a different way, thus intensifying the reflection. The tonality is treated freely, and the choral setting extends the underlying five-part texture, in which the choir's soloists create striking echoes, up to eight-part passages. Instrumentation : girl's choir (SSMezAA) a cappella