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composer: Rodion Shchedrin
text writer: Anna Achmatowa - Ossip Mandelstam

Vocal Cycle on Texts by Osip Mandelstam

for Narrator (Anna Achmatova), Tenor (Osip Mandelstam) and Piano

Dedication: für Vladimir Ashkenazy
Premiere: 6. Februar 2003 Köln, Philharmonie - Mark Tucker, Tenor - Vladimir Ashkenazy, Klavier - Salome Kammer, Erzählerin
Duration: 28' 0''
Year of composition: 2002
Language: Russian - English - German
54 Pages - Saddle stitching
ISMN: M-001-13496-5
Order number: ED 9625

Price: 26,95 €

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Description:

With his opera ”The Dead Souls” (based on Gogol) and the ballets ”Anna Karenina” (based on Tolstoy), ”The Seagull” and ”Woman with a Little Dog” (both based on Chekov), Shchedrin has brought classic works of Russian literature onto the musical theatre stage. This song cycle in thirteen parts, which is almost a miniature oratorio, is a work conceived on a smaller scale. The words describe various stages in the life and death of the poet, represented by the tenor voice with piano, while the words spoken by the narrator – personified as Anna Achmatova – and also accompanied by the piano can be understood as a sort of commentary in a musical dialogue. The composer has succeeded in bringing these disparate elements together and unifying them in music that is deeply expressive.

Content:

Preludio · A body was given to me · what am I do with it · Biographical information · My age, my wild beast · Recollections of a contemporary · The flat - paper-thin silence · Help me, o Lord, through this night · Petersburg, I'm not yet prepared to die! · I cannot hide from this vast chaos · First arrest · Guard my words for ever - for their traces of misfortune and smoke · Let me go, Voronezh, return me · Lost am I in the skies (Epilog)

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