POEMS, by Sergey Akhunov

POEMS

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1.	Though your sorrows not 06:59	lyrics	buy track
text by e.e.cummings
2.	There is a moon sole 02:53		buy track
3.	Who sharpens every dull 06:40		buy track
4.	Rain or hail 01:29		buy track
5.	I carry your heart with me 05:28		buy track
6.	Dreamingly 05:44		buy track
7.	The imprint 05:54		buy track

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text by e.e.Cummings
Dmitry Sinkovsky, Olesya Petrova, La VoceStrumentale

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released August 24, 2021

When I got acquainted with Cummings’ poetry for the first time, I was not impressed – perhaps because it was in Russian translation.
But later, when I found in the Internet his poem “Though your sorrows not”, I suddenly heard how these verses may sound. I could imagine a long, harmonically varied introduction interrupted by a voice singing «Though your sorrows not any tongue may name….” It was enough to find a connection to Cummings’ poetry.
I wanted to avoid any pastiche of baroque music. Yes, it is music for baroque instruments, but it is composed now and for contemporary audiences. So I decided not to use cembalo, but contemporary piano instead.
Besides, I wanted to create a kind of theatrical phantasmagoria: a contemplative second part (“There is a moon sole”) turns into a mystical story of a wizard who fixes women’s fate (“Who sharpens every dull”) with an allusion to post-war American movies, fancy and at the same time naïve with musical “suspenses” without denouement. Comically militarized - like the Good Soldier Švejk - the fourth part (“Rain or hail”) turns into a love story (“I carry your heart with me”). The fairy-tale “Dreamingly” is a finale of the whole cycle. It is almost theatre, a fantasy world, bizarre and baroque.
Glossa 2021

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Russian composer! Lives and works in Moscow!
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