VISIONS – d’après Gabriele D’Annunzio pour contreténor et orchestre（2019）

A song with orchestra VISIONS- d’apr?s Gabriele D’Annunzio- consists of three movements. D’Annunzio is an Italian poet. His period of activity was in the same period of the flowering of Symbolism in France and he collaborated with contemporary composer，Claude Debussy for whom he dedicated a poem. D’Annunzio’s poetry composition is full of human strong mind colored by beautiful imagination. For this song，I selected three poems in which descriptions of nature and mind are intimately intertwined with each other: L’alba sep?ra dalla luce l’ombra for the first movement，La pioggia nel pineto for the second movement，and Il vento scrive for the third movement.
The text of the first movement is the same of Tosti’s song which all vocalists would certainly sing in their study process. Unlike the bright feeling of Tosti’s song，a motif which comes and goes between D and F played by the English horn at the beginning of the movement represents a boundary of light and dark，which is a metaphor of death and make this song serious.
In the second movement，against a backdrop of continuous step-like passages which are reminiscent of soft rain，played by the wind instruments，the vocalist calmly sings visionary texts in a syllabic way. And in the middle part where the focus shifts to the human mind from beautiful depicts of nature，melodies are gradually disappeared and they are transformed into narrative.
In the third movement with a relatively short text，melodies are sung in a melismatic way compared to the previous movement. A motif which symbolizes the wind is played by the flute at the beginning. The motifs of rain and a boundary of light and dark，which appeared in the previous two movement，are used again for the last strophe and at the same time end this work of song.