Karl Jenkins - Cantata Memoria: Then Silence | Текст песни

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Then Silence, where the solo baritone
intones: “Nothing. In that black silence Not a
sound”. A distant surreal refrain (as though
sung by the lost children) of the well-known
Welsh children’s nursery rhyme Heno, heno,
Hen blant bach (which returns as a motif throughout the work) precedes the return of
the pitran, patran text with the “pa” of patran
morphing into the “pa” of paham (Welsh for
“why”). The a cappella singing of an adaptation
of J S Bach’s chorale It is Enough is then heard,
with the word “why?” sung in many languages.
In this chorale (oft-quoted by composers,
including Alban Berg in his Violin Concerto)
we hear every note in the chromatic scale, in
part chosen here to represent all humanity.
This continues, without pause, into:

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