VWV 33 · Solo Vocal · 2026 ·
Ground of Stars
Passacaglia — Cycle: Das Verlöschen III
- Catalogue
- VWV 33
- Key
- B minor
- Form
- Passacaglia
- Scoring
- Baritone & piano
- Composed
- 2026
- Duration
- 4:55
First performed Wigmore Hall, London · 14 November 2026 — Nikolai Voss, baritone · Clara Henningsen, piano
Commissioned by Wigmore Hall
To all who keep a light burning
The cycle's first strict variation-form: a passacaglia on a descending four-bar ground that turns like a dark year. Over its relentless return Voss layers the slow failing of a distant star — the voice climbing in successive variations as the harmonic floor sinks beneath it, the gap between them the song's true subject. Here the architecture of Das Verlöschen first shows itself: not a sequence of moods but a single mechanism winding down.
From Das Verlöschen · NV-014
On the cycle's thematic unity: The Lamp Motif →
Performance materials +
- Forces
- Baritone & piano
- Tessitura
- Baritone (G2–F4); soprano (C4–B5) where indicated
- Materials
- Voice & piano score
- Availability
- On sale · Voss Editions
- Grade
- Intermediate–Advanced — recital
- ISMN
- 979-0-706033-231-7
