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Gubaidulina: The Canticle of the Sun; Hommage à Marina Tsvetayeva
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from: Chandos
Release Date November 25, 2003
This Chandos disc contains two pieces by the profoundly religious Russian-Tatar composer Sofia Gubaidulina. "Canticle to the Sun" is a work for cello, percussion, and choir based on the poem of Francis of Assisi. "Hommage a Marina Tsvetaeva" is an a capella setting of five poems by a tragic Russian poetess. They are performed here by the Danish National Choir conducted by Stefan Parkman, with David Geringas on cello.
"Canticle to the Sun" (1997), dedicated to the cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, is one of Gubaidulina's largest works of the 1990s, and is based on a wonderful inspiration. The poem of Francis of Assisi is perhaps the first work of Italian literature and one of the world's all-time great artistic creations. In it the ... Read More:
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