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Sofia Gubaidulina _ Hommage à T. S. Eliot, for octet & soprano (1987) / part VII
Christine Whittlesey, soprano
Gidon Kremer, violin I
Isabelle van Keulen, violin II
Tabea Zimmermann, viola
David Geringas, violoncello
Alois Posch, double bass
Eduard Brunner, clarinet
Klaus Thunemann, bassoon
Radovan Vlatković, horn
Based on T. S. Eliot's "Four Quartets" (1935-1942)
Part VII (soprano, clarinet, basson, horn, violin I & II, viola, violoncello, double bass)
"Sin is Behovely, but
All shall be well...
And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
When the tongues of flame are in-folded
Into the crowned knot of fire
And the fire and the rose are one".
(from Little Gidding, III & V)
Painting: Arkady Rylov, "Sunset" (1917)