Retraite (Lontano)

Everybody knows - or has at least heard of - the time-honoured military bugle calls: Reveille - Retraite, the awakening at sunrise - the turning in at sunset. Ruders' piece is a two-fold composition in the form of two contrasting tone poems, each mirroring a fragment of original text, what one could call spiritual appetizers. The first movement inspired by some lines in Hector Berlioz's Memoirs where he laments the murder of a man he admired, the second on the melancholy poem Alone by Edgar Allan Poe.
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