Nigel Osborne
Remembering esenin
Instrumentation details:
violoncello
piano
Osborne - Remembering esenin for violoncello and piano
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Nigel Osborne
Osborne: Remembering Esenin for cello and pianoOrchestration: for cello and piano
Type: Stimmensatz
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The point of departure for this work was material from a set of orchestral songs I wrote in 1973 to texts of the Russian poets Mayakovsky and Esenin. Of Esenin, Solzhenitsyn wrote: “What a thunderbolt of talent the Creator must have hurled into that cottage, into the heart of that quick-tempered country boy for the shock of it to have opened his eyes to so much beauty – by the stove, in the pigsty, on the threshing floor, in the fields; beauty which for a thousand years others had simply trampled on and ignored.”
Nigel Osborne