Miguel Rausch : Carl Orff Competition 2018 Orpheus. Euridyce. Hermes

The work tries to reach the depth, environment, anguish, and beauty that the poem and the sculptures transmit. The repetitive line of the harp, in a bar of 11/4, tries to immerse the listener in a slow whirlpool, impossible to follow due to its lenght, but clarly cycleing around a loop. The melody leans on the rhythmical phrase of the frame drum, making it easy for the singer to play along.

The piece gains dramatism as it develops, with the drum playing more figures, occupying the spectre of the low ends, depriving the music of air, which so much had at the beginning, until it turns into a 6/4, accenting the phrase asked for, which represents in morse code the name of Carl Orff, present in the opera by Monteverdi.
The end is liberated, with the return of the original frame drum and harp phrases, leaving finally the voice by itself.