Product Description
- miniature for violin(/clarinet/alto flute/voice) and/or guitar (/piano/harp/marimba) duo/solo
(inspired by the poem with the same name written by the Romanian poet Grigore Vieru)
Music (composed on 21st July 1998 and firstly published on 22nd January 2021):
Andrei-Lucian Drăgoi (www.smp.dragoii.com, www.gcp.dragoii.com, www.gci.dragoii.com, www.ms.dragoii.com, www.dragoii.com)
Dedicated to the Romanian poet Grigore Vieru and to my grandmother
LYRICS:
Așa ai mers tu, mamă
de Grigore Vieru
Aşa ai mers tu, mamă,
Prin viaţă:
Ridicând plugul în braţe
Şi sacul în pod, cu porumb;
Ridicând piatra din drum,
Coaja de pâine-aruncată,
Schija uitată în câmp.
Aşa ai mers până când,
Până când, mamă,-ai ajuns
În faţa acestui soare asfinţit:
Piatră pe care nu o mai poţi ridica,
Răcindu-se, întunecându-se.
O, mamă, care acum
Nici propria mână
Nu o mai poţi ridica,
Strălucitoare de lacrimi
Ca ramura de chiciura iernii.
Versuri - URLs:
https://www.limbaromana.md/index.php?go=articole&n=250
https://atelier.liternet.ro/articol/8987/Daniel-Cristea-Enache/Functia-Vieru-III-Taina-care-ma-apara-de-Grigore-Vieru.html
https://cdn4.libris.ro/userdocspdf/847/Aproape%20-%20Grigore%20Vieru.pdf
https://ibn.idsi.md/sites/default/files/imag_file/101-111.pdf
A gross English translation of this Romanian poem:
That's how you went through life, mother!
That's how you went, mother,
Through life:
Lifting the plow in your arms
And the sack in the attic, with corn;
Picking up the stone from the road,
The thrown-away breadcrumbs,
The skis forgotten in the field.
That's how you went until,
Until, mother, you arrived
In the face of this sunset:
A stone you can't lift anymore,
(a stone) thats getting cold and dark.
Oh, Mother, you that cannot even lift your own hand anymore now,
a hand brilliant of tears
As a branch brilliant of winter frost.
This piece is part of my 2nd officially released audio album called "My Chamber Music - vol. 2 ("Angelic and demonic")" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKeJDIxBdNw&list=OLAK5uy_nxb0gsol8o4s83b1890EsDVDMhKLIAqRc) which is entirely composed by me and interpreted by Note Performer 3 (the only Artificial Intelligence-based playback engine for musical notation worldwide). Have a nice, inspired audition!
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