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Duo
(after Ossip Mandelstam)
viola and cello
Product number: BEL 624
Edition: Score and parts
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Although the first version of the Duo was composed in 1998, I rewrote it completely for Giedre Dirvanauskaite and Daniel Grishin who premiered it at Lockenhaus festival 2011. The sub-title, ‘After Ossip Mandelstam’, refers to a short poem from his 1910 collection Kamen’ (Stone), which underlies my piece: not only is this poem my epigraph, it is also quoted all along within the instrumental context. Here are a few lines from the English and German translations:
Ears stretch sensitive sails,
dilated eyes lose fire,
over the silence swims
the night-birds’ soundless choir.
Das Ohr – ein feingespanntes Segel,
der Blick taucht fragend-leer empor,
der Stille mitternächtge Vögel
ziehn durch die Luft als stummer Chor.
But obviously no translation can transmit the breath of this poetry, its respiration. It is exactly what I attempted to do through a musical reading that starts and ends with this breath. In the first movement, it is initiated by the Viola, which follows the 'choir', played by the Cello with a vertically positioned bow. So, the emergence, at the end of this movement, of the real sound marks the entrance into metaphorical spectrum.
The second movement has a concentric form where the voiceless choir of the first movement is developed in the central section.
The final movement, Adagietto, adjusts the respiration, like a regular pace – a reference to J. S. Bach. The coda, finally, goes back to the initial breath. Victor Kissine
Ears stretch sensitive sails,
dilated eyes lose fire,
over the silence swims
the night-birds’ soundless choir.
Das Ohr – ein feingespanntes Segel,
der Blick taucht fragend-leer empor,
der Stille mitternächtge Vögel
ziehn durch die Luft als stummer Chor.
But obviously no translation can transmit the breath of this poetry, its respiration. It is exactly what I attempted to do through a musical reading that starts and ends with this breath. In the first movement, it is initiated by the Viola, which follows the 'choir', played by the Cello with a vertically positioned bow. So, the emergence, at the end of this movement, of the real sound marks the entrance into metaphorical spectrum.
The second movement has a concentric form where the voiceless choir of the first movement is developed in the central section.
The final movement, Adagietto, adjusts the respiration, like a regular pace – a reference to J. S. Bach. The coda, finally, goes back to the initial breath. Victor Kissine
Content
I Grave
II Con moto
III Adagietto
II Con moto
III Adagietto
More Information
Title:
Duo
(after Ossip Mandelstam)
Edition:
Score and parts
Publisher/Label:
Belaieff Musikverlag
Year of composition:
1998
Duration:
21 ′
Technical Details
Product number:
BEL 624
ISMN13:
979-0-2030-0374-8
Weight:
0,23 kg
Pages:
62
Binding:
Saddle-wire stitching
Performances
Duo
Internationale Schostakowitsch Tage Gohrisch 2012
September 29, 2012 |
Gohrisch (Germany) , Konzertzelt
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