Doina Rotaru: Elegie for flute and piano

⭐ Doina Rotaru (b. 1951): Elegie for flute and piano (2011) ⭐
Artist in Recital program series presented by the Musicians Club of Women of Chicago
Performed at the Fourth Presbyterian Church of Chicago
The music is based on a poem of the same name, written by the famous Romanian writer, poet and philosopher, Lucian Blaga.
ELEGIE
Trembling the same - water and leaf
at the ticks of the same clock.
In what ream and in what sleep have you stopped?
Under what grass have you stayed - angelic?
They pour out of me - all the roads,
on which you stopped.
The mirror holds onto your image
even long after you left.
With no thought, no will, no voice,
my sleeve dries up wet eyes.
A neighbor through my wall - hears
the hidden patience in my steady pace
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Iva Ugrčić, flute
Satoko Hayami, piano
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This simple and short but very powerful and extremely expressive piece, recreates the mood of the poem. An elegy (elegie) is a sad poem, usually written to honor and express sorrow for someone who has died. The word “is derived from the Greek word elegus, which means a song of bereavement sung along with a flute.” Given that these poems are accompanied by flute, it seems only natural that Rotaru uses the flute as the main voice in Elegie.