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Akhmatova requiem : soprano with string orchestra

by Christopher Willcock (2000)

Akhmatova requiem

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Work Details

Year: 2000

Instrumentation: Soprano, string orchestra (6.4.4.3.2 minimum).

Duration: 45 min.

Difficulty: Advanced — Professional.

Contents note: 1. Instead of a preface -- 2. Dedication -- 3. Prologue -- 4. I: Arrest -- 5. II: Woman alone -- 6. III: Night -- 7. IV: Outside the prison -- 8. V: Understanding nothing -- 9. VI: White nights -- 10. VII: The sentence -- 11. VIII: To death -- 12. IX: Madness -- 13. X: Crucifixion -- 14. Epilogue I -- 15. Epilogue II.

Dedication note: Dedicated to Merlyn Quaife

Commission note: Commissioned by The University of Melbourne by the Albert H. Maggs Award

First performance: 29 Oct 01. St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne

Awards & Prizes

Year Award Placing Awarded for/to
1998 Albert H Maggs Composition Award First Prize Christopher Willcock

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Performances of this work

29 Oct 01: St Paul's Cathedral, Melbourne

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