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CHETIRI (FOUR​)​: VOZDUH (AIR)

from FIVE by Mihailo Trandafilovski

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for 24-voice mixed choir and string quartet

New London Chamber Choir / Kreutzer Quartet / Aidan Oliver

In CHETIRI (FOUR) (2012), a single impulse gives rise to four ‘elemental’ movements, based on haiku poems by the Macedonian writer Vladimir Martinovski. It was commissioned by the New London Chamber Choir, and the specific/unusual combination of a relatively large vocal group and a string quartet (by its nature, a more intimate, chamber music medium) was influential in generating various aspects of the piece. This complements the four interrelated poems: breaths are paralleled in waves; a ‘flying’ thought is brought back to earth by a raindrop; a bee falling through a black hole/into earth; light and sound on either side of midnight … Some aspects of the music specifically relate to the text: for example, the growing, expanding breaths/waves in the first movement, or the extreme textural contrasts in the third; in another way, the music and text are related through both breaking down and exploring the words/sounds – single phonemes, transitions, syllables are used to create texture, and similarly, a net of harmonic relationships is built connecting harmonic series, resonances based on the tuning (pure fifths) of the string instruments, and equal temperament.

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Four Haikus by Vladimir Martinovski

(selection from И ВОДА И ЗЕМЈА И ОГАН И ВОЗДУХ)


Translated by Rumena Bužarovska



ВОЗДУХ

Дишам со очи

затворени: секој нов

здив е бран морски



AIR

With my eyelids closed

I inhale: every new breath

is a wave of sea.

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from FIVE, released July 2, 2021

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Mihailo Trandafilovski London, UK

Macedonian-born, London-based composer, violinist and educator Mihailo Trandafilovski is a violinist in the Kreutzer Quartet, with whom he has performed and recorded extensively. He has an avid interest in the application of new music to pedagogy and has led a number of shared projects among the arts promoting contemporary artistic creativity to a wider audience. ... more

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