Let me tell you has a duration of approximately 30 minutes and is composed in three parts comprising a total of seven songs: Both the novel and the text of the song cycle are restricted to the 480 words used by Ophelia in the play. As in Griffiths's novel, the narrative follows the character Ophelia from Shakespeare's Hamlet as she tells her tragic story from her own perspective. It was written at the request of the soprano Barbara Hannigan, to whom the work is also dedicated. Let me tell you was Abrahamsen's second commission for the Berlin Philharmonic, following his 1981 orchestral composition Nacht und Trompeten. Its world premiere was given by the soprano Barbara Hannigan and the Berlin Philharmonic under the direction of Andris Nelsons on December 20, 2013. It is based on the eponymous 2008 novel let me tell you by the writer Paul Griffiths. The work was commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic with support from the Danish Arts Foundation. Let me tell you is a song cycle for soprano and orchestra by the Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen. Hans Abrahamsen taking a bow with Simon Rattle and Barbara Hannigan after a performance of Let me tell you by the London Symphony Orchestra in January 2019
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