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MIR

Piano, Voice and String Quartet

 

In many Slavic languages, the word "mir" has a double meaning: "peace" and "world".

In Ukrainian, this word means "peace", while in Russian it has the double meaning of "peace" and "world".

 

"It was on 24 February 2022 that Russia invaded Ukraine.


I spent two nights in a row sleeping badly. It was almost seven years living in Moscow, where I made many Russian and Ukrainian friends. Today, some of them are in Ukraine fighting for their land, their culture and their right to exist. In the same way, many Russian friends have felt the need to leave their country because their freedom has been restricted in a brutally atrocious and unprecedented way.


Two years on from the start of the war, the knot in my chest has not gone away; on the contrary, it has sunk deep into my gut.

This hideous event has conditioned my creative writing to such an extent that several musical works have been born inspired by this terrible war.


These works excogitate the anguish and pain of loss, in a reflection that aims to valorise the meaning of life and its ephemerality."

 

Pedro Emanuel Pereira


PROGRAMME

 

Gustav Mahler

  • Quartet for piano and strings in A minor

 

Alfred Schnittke

  • Quartet for piano and strings (in continuation of Mahler's quartet)

 

Valentin Silvestrov

  • Quintet for piano and strings

 

Pedro Emanuel Pereira

  • "Maidan", Quintet for piano and strings, op. 15 a

  • 41 " The Death" - Quintet for soprano and string quartet op. 14

  • "Mir", for mezzo-soprano, piano and string quartet op. 13 b

 

Notes:

The work 41 "A Morte" won the grand prize for composition at the FIMPV in Portugal in 2022;

Of the work "Maidan" op. 15 a, there is a second version for symphony orchestra;

The work "Mir" was originally written for six-voice choir, this being a version of the first.

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