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Bird, Peter

Pushkin?s ?Reverie?
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Peter Bird
Chœur SATB a cappella

MP3 (154.86 Ko)235x⬇ 971x

Compositeur	Bird, Peter (1951 - )
Instrumentation	Chœur SATB a cappella
Genre	Romantique
Editeur
Auteur/Parolier	Aleksandr Sergeevich Pushkin
Langue
Date	2005
Droit d'auteur	Creative Commons-Attribution-ShareAlike
	Ajoutée par peter-bird, 12 Jun 2007
Pushkin describes how thoughts of the inevitability of death intrude into his daily life. By the end, he achieves acceptance, or at least resignation, by visualizing his tomb and himself at rest. This poem is doubly poignant: First, Pushkin actually died young, in a duel to defend the honor of his wife. Second, because Pushkin had difficult relationships with both the government and the orthodox church, his funeral was private and hurried. Following 6 verses set to original melodies, I set t...(+) Pushkin describes how thoughts of the inevitability of death intrude into his daily life. By the end, he achieves acceptance, or at least resignation, by visualizing his tomb and himself at rest. This poem is doubly poignant: First, Pushkin actually died young, in a duel to defend the honor of his wife. Second, because Pushkin had difficult relationships with both the government and the orthodox church, his funeral was private and hurried. Following 6 verses set to original melodies, I set the last two verses as solo descants against the traditional hymns ?Holy, Holy, Holy? and ?Eternal Memory.? In Pushkin's time, the singing of the former might have been permitted even for the heterodox.
Source / Web :	Fresh Choral Music Online