Dunkles Zu Sagen

Delphine Dora's second FEF release comes almost five years after the first, L'au-delà. Dora's music is often built around existing texts, and Dunkles Zu Sagen is based on 21 poems by Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann (1926 – 1973), which concern darkness, shadows and light, love, joy and failure, and war. Dora's strongly melodic vocal and piano settings here are often reminiscent of German Lieder, and are largely powerfully direct, but occasionally take more eerie and disorientating detours. . Cover paining by Andrew Chalk.