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composer

Alexey Retinsky (ukr. Oleksii Retynskii) was born in 1986 in Simferopol, Crimea. Retinsky's early musical experiences was with playing wind instruments. He graduated from the School of Music, mastering the ...

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Violin and orchestra
Scoring: vn-solo 2fl 2ob 2cl 2fg 2h 2tpt timp perc str

Sonata III : (in stile antico), per clavicembalo ed orchestra d'archi, 1973 / Andries de Braal

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Harpsichord and String Orchestra
Scoring: str cemb-solo

Strings & harpsichord : 1994 / Andries van Rossem

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Harpsichord and String Orchestra
Scoring: str(4.4.3.2.1.) cemb-solo

Muziek : voor cembalo (klavier) en strijkorkest, '33, op. 4 / Ary Verhaar

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Harpsichord and String Orchestra
Scoring: pf/cemb str

composition

The contours of the lost : for string orchestra and harpsichord / Alexey Retinsky

Publisher's number: 23474
Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: Harpsichord and String Orchestra
Scoring: cemb str
Remarks: Commissioned by Camerata Bern in 2022.
Duration: 8'30"
Year of composition: 2024
Status: fully digitized (real-time delivery)

Description:
The main musical theme of the work is based on a transcription of a song by bird Kaua’i ʻōʻō from the islands of Hawai’i. The Kaua’i ʻōʻō, a black bird with distinctive yellow leg feathers, fell victim to the common culprits of habitat depletion (their homes were replaced by colonizers’ crops like sugarcane), disease, and predation by invasive species.
As a result, in the early 1980s the last female bird disappeared. The male bird was last sighted in 1985, and the last sound recording was made in 1987 by David Boynton, from which the author’s (A.R.) transcription was made. In this recording we hear the singing of a male bird calling for a female, but the female apparently simply no longer exists. He is the last representative of the genus who will not be able to pass on his genome.
Alexey Retinsky

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