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Work
1977
- for voice and piano
- By:
- Duration:
- 12' 00"
- Contents:
- Hamlet; Intoxication; The Wind; Winter Night
Availability
- This work has a score and a recording
Programme Note
In 1977 John Ritchie set four poems from the English translation of Doctor Zhivago by Max Hayward and Manya Harari, and the songs were first performed in Durham in 1978. The extensive use of both ends of the vocal range fulfils the breadth demanded by the poem’s Russian originas, yet without recourse to cluttered or overly thick textures.
- Text Note:
- Text by Boris Pasternak translated by Max Hayward and Manya Harari
- Difficulty:
- Advanced
- Influences:
Performance History
| 11 May 1990 |
Performed by Margaret Lion (piano) and Marion Olsen (mezzo soprano) at St John’s Smith Square in London |
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| 25 May 2008 |
Winter Night from Four Zhivago Songs was performed by the Whangarei Choral Society, conducted by Virginia Hill Winter Night from Four Zhivago Songs was performed |
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