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Hans Werner Henze

El Cimarrón

El cimarrón (The Runaway Slave) is a 75-minute "recital" for baritone, flute, guitar and percussion by the German composer Hans Werner Henze, written when he lived in Cuba in 1969–1970. The descriptive term in quotation marks is the composer's own. The baritone narrates, taking the listener through fifteen brief scenes delivered mostly half-sung. Subtitled Biographie des geflohenen Sklaven Esteban Montejo, or Biography of the Runaway Slave Esteban Montejo, and with a libretto by Hans Magnus Enzensberger, El cimarrón is based on an oral auto-biography given in 1963 to Miguel Barnet.

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Movements

  1. Die Welt
  2. Der Cimarrón
  3. Die Sklaverei
  4. Die Flucht
  5. Der Wald
  6. Die Geister
  7. Die falsche Freiheit
  8. Die Frauen
  9. Die Maschinen
  10. Die Pfarrer
  11. Der Aufstand
  12. Die Schlacht von Mal Tiempo
  13. Der schlechte Sieg
  14. Die Freundlichkeit
  15. Das Messer

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