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Various - Richard Blackford: Naidu Songs for Mezzo-Soprano, Clarinet and String Quartet - NMP1021
Various - Richard Blackford: Naidu Songs for Mezzo-Soprano, Clarinet and String Quartet - NMP1010

Richard Blackford: Naidu Songs For Mezzo-soprano, Clarinet And String Quartet

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Cat No: NMP1021

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Release Date:  01 August 2018

Label:  Nimbus Music Publishing

Packaging Type:  Paper Back Book

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  9790708129127

Genres:  Classical  

Composer/Series:  Richard Blackford

Release Date:  01 August 2018

Label:  Nimbus Music Publishing

Packaging Type:  Paper Back Book

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  9790708129097

Genres:  Classical  

Composer/Series:  Richard Blackford

  • Description

    Sarojini Naidu’s poems cover a wide range of human experience, from love, ecstasy, delight in the natural world, loneliness, acceptance and praise. These five poems form a cycle of one Indian woman’s experience of lost love, delight in a colourful procession, the thrill of new young love, contemplation of death, and ecstasy at the beauty of creation and the omnipresence of God. Her poetry pulsates with her love of Indian landscapes, seasons and flowers, simple joys, devotion and the splendor of Indian festivals. I chose an accompaniment of string quartet and clarinet to extend and enhance the richness of Naidu’s imagery and the passion she evokes. The clarinet, like a second melodic voice, weaves around the vocal line, sometimes sensuous, sometimes raucous and abandoned, in imitation of the Indian double-reed instrument the shenai. Many of the songs have long introductions, interludes and postludes, where the writing becomes more symphonic than mere accompaniment.

    Description

    Sarojini Naidu’s poems cover a wide range of human experience, from love, ecstasy, delight in the natural world, loneliness, acceptance and praise. These five poems form a cycle of one Indian woman’s experience of lost love, delight in a colourful procession, the thrill of new young love, contemplation of death, and ecstasy at the beauty of creation and the omnipresence of God. Her poetry pulsates with her love of Indian landscapes, seasons and flowers, simple joys, devotion and the splendor of Indian festivals. I chose an accompaniment of string quartet and clarinet to extend and enhance the richness of Naidu’s imagery and the passion she evokes. The clarinet, like a second melodic voice, weaves around the vocal line, sometimes sensuous, sometimes raucous and abandoned, in imitation of the Indian double-reed instrument the shenai. Many of the songs have long introductions, interludes and postludes, where the writing becomes more symphonic than mere accompaniment.

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