The Swan is a miniature tone poem for Violin and Cello, based on the wonderful poem by Rilke (here, in my translation):
This misery - getting through what's still undone,
Weighed down and as though fettered -
Is like the clumsy walking of a swan.
And dying - letting go the very ground
On which we daily stand -
Is like the anxious dip
Into the water, which takes him softly
And happily flows past him.
Wake on wake;
While he, infinitely sure and silent
And ever more majestically,
Glides calmly on his way.
Correlations between the words of the poem and the music appear regularly throughout the score. The music is a journey into death and release. It ends with the duo giving my version of Go Down, Sweet Chariot.
The Swan will appear on the forthcoming CD of my recent work (Innova 777)
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