No. 5 of Eisler's Palmström op. 5

Tapetenblume (Wallpaper Flowers)

I am wallpaper flowers, wrapping without end
instead of blooming only in May,
I bloom all year, even under the moonlight on these four walls.

You do not see me enough, no matter matter how much you look around this little room,
following me, hopscotching about.
You will go crazy, my love.

Patricia Auchterlonie, soprano
Antonia Berg, flute/piccolo
Patrick Davies, clarinet
Ionel Manciu, violin/viola
Daniel Benn, cello

at the Courtauld Gallery, February 2017

5. Palmström: Tapetenblume (Eisler)

No. 3 of Eisler's Palmström op. 5

L'Art pour L'Art

The whirring of a startled sparrow 
inspiries Korf to make a work of art
consisting of looks, mannerisms and gestures.

When they come with cameras to record it,
Korf says: 'I can't recall it any longer.'
He doesn't recall it anymore, the work he made
on the occasion of an 'excited sparrow.'

Patricia Auchterlonie, soprano
Antonia Berg, flute/piccolo
Patrick Davies, clarinet
Ionel Manciu, violin/viola
Daniel Benn, cello

at the Courtauld Gallery, February 2017

3. Palmström: L'Art pour L'Art (Eisler)

No. 1 of Eisler's Palmström op. 5

 Palmström Anadyomene

Palmström sometimes wishes to dissolve 
like salts into a class of water 
particularly after sunset.

He would rest just that way until climbing from the water
as Palmström, Venus Anadyomene.

Patricia Auchterlonie, soprano
Antonia Berg, flute/piccolo
Patrick Davies, clarinet
Ionel Manciu, violin/viola
Daniel Benn, cello

at the Courtauld Gallery, February 2017

1. Palmström: Palmström Anadyomene (Eisler)

No. 2 of Eisler's Palmström op. 5

Notturno

Palmström takes paper from it's drawer, makes it into balls and distributes it artfully around the room.
He distributes the balls for the evening.

He had distributed the balls for the evening so that suddenly the might awake him with their rustling and give him a fright.

Those nights, a secret clutch of balls who spook him. Those packed paper balls.

Patricia Auchterlonie, soprano
Antonia Berg, flute/piccolo
Patrick Davies, clarinet
Ionel Manciu, violin/viola
Daniel Benn, cello

at the Courtauld Gallery, February 2017

2. Palmström: Notturno (Eisler)

No. 4 of Eisler's Palmström op. 5

Galgenbruders Frühlingslied (Gallows brother's spring song)

It is spring here on our plot, oh that blessed time.
A small blade of grass reaches through a wormhole towards the light!
It rocks back and forth in the wind.

I am almost who I would be I might be someone yet I am no longer.

Patricia Auchterlonie, soprano
Antonia Berg, flute/piccolo
Patrick Davies, clarinet
Ionel Manciu, violin/viola
Daniel Benn, cello

at the Courtauld Gallery, February 2017

4. Palmström: Galgenbruders Frühlingslied (Eisler)

Teethe play Kate Soper's Only the Words Themselves Mean What They Say

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Teethe are Patricia Auchterlonie and Toni Berg on flutes