related works
White Interment (Symphony Nº 3) : for symphony orchestra / Victoria Poleva
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
4fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 2tpt 3trb tb campanelli timp hp pf str
Postcards from Warsaw : for piano quintet / Aleksandra Chmielewska
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano quintet (piano, 2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring:
pf 2vn vla vc
Quintet : voor 2 violen, altviool, violoncello en piano, (1944/46) / Jaap Geraedts
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano quintet (piano, 2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring:
pf 2vl vla vc
Memories and reflections : for piano quintet, 2002 / Hans Kox
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano quintet (piano, 2 violins, viola, cello)
Scoring:
pf 2vl vla vc
composition
Simurgh - Quintet : for 2 violins, viola, cello and piano / Victoria Poleva
Other authors:
Polevá, Victoria Vita
(Composer)
Description:
This work is inspired by a Sufi poem of Farīd ud-Dīn Attār « The Conference of the Birds « (Manteq al-Tayr, XIII century). In the poem Attar the birds of the world set forth in search of their king, Simurgh,to escape from the suffering of life. Passing the seven valleys (seven steps towards improving), passing many trials, the birds reach the abode of Simurgh - where each bird in each rose, as if in a mirror, sees his own reflection, so they discover that Simurgh - it is they themselves («simurgh « in farsi means «30 birds» (si – thirty, murgh – bird). Simurgh, thus, could be interpreted as a symbol of true unity.
“Simurgh – quintet” organized by the interaction of pair of antinomies: psalmodic speech (piano) and choral singing (strings), by their functional separation at the beginning, rotation, intertransitions and the transformation in the unity in the final.
The dramaturgy of the piece is a long way through the images of soaring feather, the movement of the wings, whisper, placer sparks, which suddenly end with the singing of fiery Simurgh. Musical material of quintet has a hidden inner text and comes from Orthodox practice of prayer.
Victoria Vita Poleva