Year
1955
Time
ca. 15'
Instr.
Fem. singer (high) and piano / orchestra
Edition
Impero Verlag, Wiesbaden
Originally, these pieces were written for high soprano and piano, a commission by the German radiostation Südwestfunk (Baden-Baden) and premièred at the Donaueschinger Musiktage in 1956.
One year later, Regamey orchestrated the pianoaccompaniment and this version was premièred at an ISCM-Festival in Zürich in 1957.
The voice is treated as an instrument : it was the intention of the composer to realise the vocal expression directly through the musical and phonetic values without the filter of an actual text. In the old Indian text Regamey uses, ununderstandable for most of the aufience, the composer considers consonants as expressive as vowels. For this reason he has also refrained from translating the texts.