PETRARCA SONNETS Op. 17 1976 for soprano and ensemble – Text: Petrarch sonnets translated by Osip Mandelstam (in Russian and Italian)
1. Valle che de’ lamenti miei se’ piena [Sonnet XXXIII] (Andante)
2. Or che ’l ciel e la terra e il vento tace ... [Sonnet CXIII] (Andante)
3. Quel rosignol che si soave piange ... [Sonnet XLIII] (Lento)
4. I di miei più leggier che nessun cervo ... [Sonnet LI] (Andante)
1.1.0.0 – 1.0.0.0 – harp. cel. vln. va. vc Duration: 16-19’
First performance: 9 January 1978 Union of Composers, Moscow
Anna Soboleva (soprano) – Vasily Zelvakov (conductor)
© Sikorski, Hamburg for the world
Performed by Jane Manning (soprano), Paris, 1979
