Ulrich Noethen recites "The Big Sleep" by Raymond Chandle. A unique concert reading. Noethen takes on the role of the famous detective Marlow
Ulrich Noethen, recitation
Boulanger Trio, piano trio
"The great sleep" by Raymond Chandler
with music by Astor Piazzolla, Friedrich Cerha, Pēteris Vasks and Dimitri Shostakovich
"The Big Sleep" is a 20th century crime classic and a highlight in the history of crime fiction, whether as a novel or as the movie "Dead Sleep Well" with Humphrey Bogart.
This concert reading is located somewhere between the brilliant book and the congenial film. Ulrich Noethen lends his voice to the legendary detective Philip Marlowe, and the Boulanger Trio captures the moods released by the text, in line with Raymond Chandler's motto "that readers only think they are interested in the action, but that it is actually something else that interests them and that interests me: the creation of emotions through dialog and description."
