vocal, chamber

Primordia Rerum

(2003)

for soprano and five instruments

Commissioned By:Abbaye du Royaumont
Instrumentation:Pierrot Ensemble

Lyrics by Oscar Bianchi with excerpts from Lucretius ' De Rerum Natura.

With Primordia Rerum, Oscar Bianchi won the first prize at the 2005 Gaudeamus international composition competition.

Lyrics (excerpts from Lucretius ' De Rerum Natura)

Denique caelesti sumus omnes, semine oriundi; omnibus ille idem pater est.

Cedit item retro, de terra quod fuit ante, in terras.

Nec sic interemit mors res ut materiai corpora conficiant, sed coetum dissipat ollis;...

Venere alma. Quo magis aeternum da dictis, diva leporem. Effice ut interea fera moenera militiai per maria ac terras omnis sopita quiescant;.

Lyrics, English translation (excerpts from Lucretius ' De Rerum Natura)

Finally, we all derive from celestial seed; the sky is everybody's unique father

Equally, what once came from the earth returns to the earth.

Death does not destroy matter's bodies, but dissolves their union.

Venus Alma. Give me never-ending grace of words, and make war and his hard schools sleeping through lands and seas.

Events
Jul 10, 2022

Primordia Rerum

Festival Pontino, Villa di Sermoneta - (IT)

Syntax Ensemble, Pasquale Corrado, direttore
Mar 11, 2022

Primordia Rerum

Auditorium San Fedele, Milan - (IT)

Syntax Ensemble, Pasquale Corrado, Valentina Coladonato
May 22, 2017

PRIMORDIA RERUM

Diaghilev Festival, Perm - (RU)

Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Olga Vlasova Soprano
Dec 17, 2016

PRIMORDIA RERUM

Maison 44, Basel

for soprano and ensemble ensemble ö
Nov 27, 2016

PRIMORDIA RERUM

Theater Chur - (CH)

for soprano and ensemble ensemble ö
Sep 6, 2016

PRIMORDIA RERUM

Tchaikovsky City - (RU)

Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Natalia Pshenichnikova
Feb 19, 2015

PRIMORDIA RERUM

Milano

Divertimento Ensemble, Sandro Gorli Conductor, Agate Burkina Soprano
Aug 17, 2014

PRIMORDIA RERUM

Mazsalaca Latvia

Divertimento Ensemble, Agate Burkina Soprano, Sandro Gorli conductor
May 8, 2012

PRIMORDIA RERUM

Theater of Chur, Switzerland

Ensemble Ö, Sylvia Nopper soprano