Rachel C. Walker - al’thalj (2023)

for piccolo, basset recorder, prepared harp, prepared cembalo and tambourines

al’thalj is the third in a series of pieces constructed from texts by the Iraqi poet Nadeem Al’Aloosi about the figure Malak Alzumurud (the Emerald Angel).

This work was commissioned by airborne extended and composed during my residency at Akademie Schloss Solitude in 2022/23.


airborne extended:
Elena Gabbrielli, piccolo/tambourine
Caroline Mayrhoffer, recorder
Tina Žerdin, harp/tambourine
Sonja Leipold, cembalo

commission by
airborne extended & Bundesministerium Kunst, Kultur, öffentlicher Dienst und Sport Österreich

Rachel C. Walker - al’thalj (2023)

夏雨言，南琶弹唱 | Xia Yuyan, nanpa/voice
张永韵，铃鼓、朗诵 | Zhang Yongyun, percussion/voice
蔡昀庭，歌词《相思》| Text by Autumn Tsai

September 2019, Beijing

Ebb and flow (2019)

Rachel C. Walker writes poetic, timbre-sensitive works drawing from her ongoing immersion in and research on Chinese folk music, musical time, and language.

Ebb and flow (2019)

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