Crédits
AUSFÜHRENDE KÜNSTLER:INNEN
Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge
Ensemble
Christopher Gray
Dirigent:in
Alexander Robson
Orgel
KOMPOSITION UND LIEDTEXT
Ariel Dorfman
Texte
James MacMillan
Komponist:in
Paroles
What did you say- they found another one? - I can't hear you -this morning another one floating in the river? talk louder- so you didn't even dare no one can identify him? the police said not even his mother not even the mother who bore him not even she could they said that? the other women already tried - I can't understand what you're saying, they turned him over and looked at his face, his hands they looked at, right, they're all waiting together, silent, in mourning, on the riverbank, they took him out of the water he's naked as the day he was born, there's a police captain and they won't leave until I get there? He doesn't belong to anybody, you say he doesn't belong to anybody? tell them I'm getting dressed, I'm leaving now if the captain's the same one as last time he knows what will happen that body will have my name - my son's my husband's my father's name I'll sign the papers tell them tell them I'm on my way, wait for me and don't let that captain touch him don't let that captain take one step closer to him. Tell them not to worry: I can bury my own dead. Libera animas omnium fidelium defunctorum de poenis inferni, et de profundo lacu: Libera eas de ore leonis ne absorbeat eas tartarus, ne cadant in obscuram.
Written by: Ariel Dorfman, James MacMillan