Youtubeko deskribapena:
this is the world premiere of Helena Winkelmans "The Clock" for String Quartet. Commissioned and played by the Merel Quartet at "Zwischentöne Engelberg" Chamber Music Festival 2017.
It incorporates the wonderful church bells of the Engelberg monastery, at 6'40'' and 11'50''
Recorded by Andreas Werner
The piece is based on the Sonet 12 by William Shakespeare
When I do count the clock that tells the time, And see the brave day sunk in hideous night; When I behold the violet past prime,
And sable curls all silver'd o'er with white; When lofty trees I see barren of leaves,
Which erst from heat did canopy the herd, And summer's green all girded up in sheaves Borne on the bier with white and bristly beard; Then of thy beauty do I question make
That thou among the wastes of time must go,
Since sweets and beauties do themselves forsake, And die as fast as they see others grow;
And nothing 'gainst Time's scythe can make defence Save breed, to brave him when he takes thee hence.
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