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Shadowtime (1999-2004)

Libretto: Charles Harold Bernstein
Jurjen Hempel, Nieuw Ensemble, Neue Vocalsolisten Stuttgart, Nicolas Hodges (Speaker), Nicolas Hodges (Piano), Mats Scheidegger (Guitar)
℗ 2012
37 Tracks, 2:06:41

  • Scene 1 - New Angels

    • Transient Failures (Prologue)
      20:39

  • Scene 2 - Les Froissements d'Ailes de Gabriel

    • Les Froissements d'Ailes de Gabriel
      17:24

  • Scene 3 - The Doctrine of Similarity

    • 1. Amphibolies I (Walk Slowly)
      02:12
    • 2. Dust to Dusk
      01:25
    • 3. Cannot Cross
      02:45
    • 4. Indissolubility (Motetus absconditus)
      02:10
    • 5. Amphibolies II (Noon)
      04:31
    • 6. In the Dark (But Even Fire Is Light)
      02:07
    • 7. Sometimes
      02:33
    • 8. Anagrammatica
      00:35
    • 9. Dew and Die
      01:41
    • 10. Schein
      01:20
    • 11. Dusts to Dusks
      02:22
    • 12. Amphibolies III (Pricks)
      01:25
    • 13. Salute
      01:31

  • Scene 4 - Opus Contra Naturam (Descent of Benjamin into the Underworld)

    • 1. Pensieroso, vacillando
      02:28
    • 2. Katabasis
      11:26
    • 3. Kataplexy
      02:53

  • Scene 5 - Pools of Darkness

    • 1. Three Giant Mouths
      02:15
    • 2. Headless Ghoul
      01:41
    • 3. Karl Marx and Groucho Marx, with Kerberus
      02:08
    • 4. Pope Piùs XII
      01:03
    • 5. Joan of Arc
      01:32
    • 6. Baal Shem Tov Disguised as Vampire
      02:21
    • 7. Adolf Hitler
      01:22
    • 8. Albert Einstein
      01:37
    • 9. Border Guard
      00:57
    • 10. Four Furies
      01:30
    • 11. Golem
      01:42

  • Scene 6 - Seven Tableaux Vivants Representing the Angel of History as Melancholia

    • 1. Laurel's Eyes (after Heine's "Die Lorelei")
      01:32
    • 2. Tensions
      01:08
    • 3. Hashish in Marseilles
      01:23
    • 4. After Heine's "Der Tod, das ist die kühle Nacht"
      01:28
    • 5. One and a Half Truths
      01:43
    • 6. Can'ts
      01:01
    • 7. Madame Moiselle and Mr. Moiselle
      05:07

  • Scene 7 - Stelae for Failed Time

    • Stelae for Failed Time
      13:44