Alexander Nemtin - The Stars are falling from the Sky onto the Earth [excerpt]

Unknown performers.

An excerpt from Nemtin's 40 minute long song cycle for baritone and piano, "The Stars are Falling from the Sky onto the Earth", written on the texts of the 19th century Hungarian poet, Sandor Petefy (a friend of Liszt), in Russian translation. This work, traditionally tonal and romantic in harmony and style (with some peculiar impressionist nuances, as typical of Nemtin), has an extensive cyclic development with several important regularly recurring leitmotifs. These themes are developed in an extensive, almost symphonic manner, extending the type of development present in many 19th- century art songs; the motives provide a great sense of unity and completeness to the 20 numbers of the song cycle (14 songs and 6 piano interludes).

Artwork by Sir George Clausen.

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