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I have tried to encapsulate within it the total grief, sadness and eternal servitude of that race whose songs I heard in my childhood... Whether or how much I have succeeded in instilling into the form of an orchestral work even just a particle of what hangs vanishing into the air in every part of
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differs from the other of Karłowicz's symphonic poems in the way that it was not inspired by any narrative or philosophical concern. It is a highly personal work and originates in the composer's own roots: he spent his early years in
Lithuania (his family were Polish landowners). Moreover, unlike
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In this composition, Karłowicz used
Russian formal models. They are essentially non-developmental and rely on harmonic, textural, colouristic and orchestral variation. The sense of connectedness of the sections is made by occasional direct thematic links (the third and the fourth sections), more
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It is scored for three flutes, two oboes, English horn, two clarinets (B♭), bass clarinet (B♭), two bassoons, four horns (F), two trumpets (C), three trombones; timpani, triangle, cymbals and strings.
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melodies), much of which was collected by the composer in 1900 while on vacation at his family estate. This is how he wrote about the piece in a letter to his friend
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The second section is a lyric one containing pastoral elements (as there are two themes instead of one). The theme of the third section is a popular
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lullaby. The fourth section uses a version of this, dancing and vigorous, resembling a
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Symfoniczna Filharmonii Śląskiej, "Mieczysław Karłowicz. Poematy symfoniczne"
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