Par TAVENER JOHN. Six des poèmes de Ahmatova, mis en musique (pour soprano et violoncelle) par John Tavener. Dans ces paramètres Tavener a essayé de refléter la simplicité trompeuse de ce verset, qui découle de la tradition classique. Dans la Mort chanson finale du matériau musical des chansons antérieures sont réunis. Puis le poète offre un adieu douloureux à sa patrie bien-aimée, et les étapes dans la 'cabine' qui a été particulièrement préparé pour elle. Les Chansons d'Akhmatova ont été commandées par le Festival de Musique Cricklade et créée le 28 Septembre 1993 par Patricia Rozario et Steven Isserlis à St Sampsons Eglise, Cricklade. D'abord réalisée par Steven Isserlis au Festival de musique Cricklade, Octobre 1995. / Rép Classique / Répertoire / Soprano et Violoncelle

Six of Ahmatova's poems set to music (for soprano and cello) by John Tavener.In these settings Tavener has tried to reflect the deceptive simplicity of the verse which stems from classical tradition. In the final song Deaththe musical material of the earlier songs is gathered together. Then the poet bids a painful farewell to her beloved homeland and steps into the ‘cabin’ that has been particularly prepared for her.The Akhmatova Songs werecommissioned by the Cricklade Music Festival and first performed on 28 September 1993 by Patricia Rozario and Steven Isserlis at St Sampsons Church Cricklade.

The three-movement Quo vadis by Erik Bergman is a typical example of his recent coloristic-improvisatory style. It is a dialogue-like duo in which the instruments speak both in turn and together. Their voices grow in a wedge of volume — from silence to passionate outbursts and from the middle to the outer registers. Each rejoinder is usually dominated by a particular mode of playing and figure the most marked being the highly dissonant crashes on the piano and the cello tremoli. The themes of the second movement are based on a medieval Dies irae melody. But their melodic type oscillating backwards and forwards over a small interval is characteristic of Bergman andaccordingly makes its appearance in the other movements too.