Description

THE SLEEPING PRINCESS, song by Alexander  BORODIN

prepared for CELLO SOLOIST and STRING ORCHESTRA by David Johnstone

PDF 1 – Cello Soloist part
PDF 2 – Orchestral General Score
PDF 3 – Orchestral Individual parts
PDF 4 – Original song with piano

EXAMPLES from the general score:

David Johnstone dedicates this new orchestral version with cello soloist to the very fine cellist ALEJANDRO SAÚL MARTÍNEZ GONZÁLEZ

Notes:

Alexander Porfiryevich Borodin (12th November 1833 – 27th February 1887) was a romantic composer and chemist of Georgian-Russian extraction. He was one of the prominent 19th-century composers known as “The Five”, a group dedicated to producing a “uniquely Russian” kind of classical music. Borodin is known best for his symphonies, his two string quartets, the symphonic poem In the Steppes of Central Asia and his opera ‘Prince Igor’.

“The Sleeping Princess” // “Spyashchaya Knyazhna” was Borodin’s first published song in 1873 although he was well practised in the form, and shocked the Russian musical scene with its bold use of dissonance and unconventional harmony way ahead of its time. The composer’s use of unresolved 2nds and the whole tone scale has been highlighted by musicologists as a type of “pre-impressionism” – compositional techniques that would later influence Debussy, Ravel and Stravinsky.

The soloist/vocal line has some lyricism, but often intones Borodin’s dark, fairy-tale poem and allows for an intense expressiveness. Certain melodic and textual fragments repeat throughout the song which -combined with the fantastical music – create a compelling aura of unsettling mystery. It should not be surprising therefore that Rimsky-Korsakov later orchestrated the song as a poem for voice and orchestra. Johnstone’s setting with string orchestra gives an equal opportunity for instrumental soloists. A very useful addition to concert repertoire….

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