Music Text
Konstantin Balmont (R,F,E,G)
Scoring
2fl.2cl-pft-string quartet
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Publisher
Boosey & Hawkes
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Repertoire Note
Two short poems by the Russian symbolist poet Konstantin Balmont are set here. In both songs can be heard the combination of ‘diatonic’ and ‘octatonic’ procedures typical of Stravinsky at this time, which he learned from Rimsky-Korsakov but made his own.
Repertoire note by Jonathan Cross
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