Rodion Konstantinowitsch Schtschedrin
My Age, My Wild Beast
Vocal Cycle on Texts by Osip Mandelstam
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Rodion Konstantinowitsch Schtschedrin
My Age, My Wild Beast
Vocal Cycle on Texts by Osip Mandelstam
- Instrumentation Narrator, High Voice and Piano
- Composer Rodion Konstantinowitsch Schtschedrin
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- Edition Sheet Music
- Publisher Schott Musik
- Order no. ED9625
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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.