Как у нас, на синем да на море, сильная дробная да волна
A strong wave is coming on the blue sea

Как меня, удалого да й мальчишку, тёмная ночка ох да обняла
Dark night embraced me, young boy

Какъ я, удалой да й мальчишка, я на взгоренке да лежу
I’m lying on the small hill

Скрозь мои кости да суставы травка муравка охъ проросла
Through my bones the grass grown

Скрозь мои да резвые ножки стёжка дорожка охъ пролегла
Through my fast legs a stitch path lay

Скрозь мои сахарные усты быстрая речка охъ протекла
Through my sugar lips a fast creek is flowing

Скрозь мои прослышнаи ушки чёрная змейка охъ проползла
Through my ears a black snake crawled

Ты слетай, белая лебёдка, на родиму охъ сторону
Fly to the native side, white winch

Не скажи, белая лебёдка, что я молод охъ запропал
Don’t tell them that I was lost

А скажи, белая да лебёдка, что я молод охъ женился
But tell that I married

(говором) Не пора ли нам, братцы да ребята, со синя ох моря домой?
(spoken) Isn’t it time for us, brothers, to go back home?






Performed by Elizaveta Agladze (mezzo soprano), Tierney McClure (flute), Marienn Sanchez (violin), Alexey Logunov (piano), conductor - Hung-Yuan Cheng,
 
Winner of Georgina Joshi Composition Commission Award 2023
Date of premiere: 4/4/2023, Indiana University Recital Hall, Bloomington, United States.

On The Blue Sea (2023)

Alexey Logunov was born in Leningrad, Russia. He graduated in 2014 from Saint-Petersburg State Conservatory of Rymsky-Korsakov, where he studied composition with Vladimir Tsitovich and Gennady Banshchikov and was later assistant to Sergei Slonimsky. Logunov studied piano performance at Saint Petersburg Conservatory, mentored by Ekaterina Murina from 2016 to 2018. In 2020, he earned a Master of Music degree in Composition from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, where he studied with P. Q. Phan, Eugene O’Brien, and Tansy Davies. Logunov is now a doctoral student and associate instructor of composition at the Jacobs School.

Logunov’s compositions have been performed at numerous festivals in Russia and internationally, including From Avantgarde to Present Days, Children’s Earth, Sound Ways, reMusik.org, Musica Futura (Minsk, Republic of Belarus), New music-new reality (Ekaterinburg), Composer 2.0 (Yaroslavl) and the Midwest Composers Symposium 2019 (Indiana University, USA), Performing Media Festival 2024 (South Bend, Indiana) and SEAMUS@40 (Louisiana State University, USA). He collaborated with artistic groups “Musica Futura” and “Dialectic of Sound” from 2010 to 2011. In 2016, he participated in the “Roche Continents” program in Salzburg, Austria. The following year, he joined a concert tour of France’s Atlantic coastal cities as part of the Dinard Réunit les Jeunes Virtuoses festival. He was respectively a scholar of and a student of the X and XI International Young Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky-city and a participant of 2023 Splice Institute (Kalamazoo, Michigan).

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