A cycle for voice and cello

[alessandrovle]

I hope this might be of interest to you.

I have just written a cycle of five songs for voice (soprano/tenor) and cello called "Songs of simple desires". My aim was to create pieces in which the elaborate imagery of the poetry – by Russian, German, English and Japanese poets – is matched by the expressive quality of the music where a phrase, or even a word, is isolated from its context by a distinct musical thought and texture.

I would like to present to you a song based on a wonderful poem by Ossip Mandelstam:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBnd3o5Y6Z8