Gilson Antunes, guitar (recorded in May 2021 -  youtube.com/gilsonantunes1972).

Schlechte Zeit für Lyrik (named after B. Brecht) was composed for the album Weiße Rose, a project conceived to mark the centenary of the birth of Sophie Scholl.
Each one of these “Songs of Hope” was written with a previous song in mind. The list of correspondences between each piece and the songs, presented below, is directed more towards the guitarist than to the public, as a means of grasping the particular sense of each moment in the performance.
- I [00:00​]. World Youth Song (Prague, 1947), composed by Anatoly Novikov to lyrics by Lev Oshanin; adapted by Quilapayun in the album X Viet-nam (Chile, 1968).
- II [02:16​]. There, far away, beyond the river (Там, Вдали За Рекой, 1924), set to lyrics by Nikolai Kool after the Russian Civil War to an anonymous folksong melody.
- III [04:06​]. A counterpoint between antifascist symbol Einheitsfrontlied (Bertolt Brecht & Hanns Eisler, 1934) and the traditional folksong Die Gedanken sind frei (also influenced by Gustav Mahler’s rendering of this verse in Lied des Verfolgten im Turm, 1898).
- IV [05:15​]. Nada más (Atahualpa Yupanqui), a homage to Che Guevara recorded in the album Mi tierra, te están cambiando (1973).
- V [06:39​]. If I had a hammer (Pete Seeger), from In Concert for Chile (London, 1974).
The cycle was written in São Paulo in march and april 2021, during an everlasting pandemic of extremely unequal impact - notwithstanding extreme and escalating widespread socioeconomic differences, but even still, facing the renewed outburst of shameless fascist and genocidal discourse and policies in Brazil.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdZ4GsQfBMs
Partitura: https://www.babelscores.com/catalogs/instrumental/6697-schlechte-zeit-fuer-lyrik
https://lessthanone.bandcamp.com/album/wei-e-rose

Weiße Rose

Schlechte Zeit für Lyrik (Hoffnungslieder für Gitarre)

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0.00  Promenade
1. 16    Gnomus
3.52   Promenade II
4.46  The Old Castle
9.10    Promenade III
9.41    Tuileries
10.46  Bydlo
13.23   Promenade IV
14.05  Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks
15.17    Samuel Golderberg & Schmuyle
18.01    Promenade V
19.19    Limoges. The Market. The Great News
20.54  Catacombae
25.38  The Hut on the Fowl's Legs (Baba Yaga)
29.41   The Great Gate of Kiev

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