Golovin, Andrei

Preface

Golovin, Andrei – Silent Vega, Nine Songs on Verses by Russian Poets for Soprano and Orchestra (first print)

(born 1950)

This cycle of songs by various poets is united by themes of natural elements and their eternity contrasted with human agitation, suffering and mortality. Inner links are very sparingly applied, but it will be observed how the images in the poetry are arranged to lead into one another: waves – ripples – springs; oblivion (the third spring) – Autumn – summons to begone Winter– premonitions of death and what may lie beyond–cosmos.
1. Wave and Thought
Tyutchev
Sparse lines of tremolando violins evoke the thoughts and idle waves that come and go. Having established this premise, Golovin brings a harsh protest on the brass, an outcry against the human condition of ever-varying illusion. …

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