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Composer: Jug K. Marković (1987)
Ultraterreno, za dva ženska glasa i klavir / Ultraterreno, for two female voices and piano
Composed in 2016.
Commissioned by the Festival International d’Art Lyrique
d’Aix-en-Provence

Performed by: Inês Simões, soprano, Héloïse Mas, mezzo-soprano, and Marwan Dafir, piano, in 2016.

Composer on piece (excerpt):
"Ultraterreno is a piece that deals with some important questions in the coming of age of a young artist. On one hand love for creation, endurance, inspiration and self esteem and on the other hand doubt, frustration, rejection and mechanization and industrialization of art. Even if it does not say so in the title, I like to think of this composition as a "dramaturgical madrigal”. It deals with problematic and thoughts I personally have been engaging.

It consist of five texts from several different epochs which all in a certain way tell about abovementioned things from completely different contexts, with different sensibilities and in three different languages (Italian, German and Russian). Sonnets by Tasso (1544 – 1595) and Michelangelo (1475 – 1564), as well as the poetry of Russian poet Marina Tsvetaeva (1892 – 1941) deal with the concept of the power of the free spirited and gifted soul. In contrary to that, narrated short story of Austrian writer Thomas Berhard (1931 – 1989) tells of rejection and alienation. The last text that I have incorporated is an e-mail I personally got a few years ago as a refusal note for an entrance exam at one Faculty I applied to. The e-mail is the red thread of a piece and a certain counterpoint to all other texts since it recurs several times and intercepts the pacing of a seemingly logical course of actions."

  / jugkonstantin