One of the saddest poems I've ever read. And also a good example of elegiac couplet, which is formed by combining an hexameter followed by a pentameter. The hexameter has the following scansion:_ _ / _ _ / _ _ / _ _ / _ uu / _ _ And then a pentameter:_ _ / _ _/ _ // _ uu /_ uu / _(_ = long, u = short, in some cases -look in Wikipedia or wherever- a long can be replaced by two shorts):So basically the poem is hexameter-pentameter-hexameter-pentameter-and-so-on.I learned latin independently, so the pronunciation, the rythm, the entonation and everything basically comes from what I understood studying with books and without receiving any kind of feedback. Therefore, I do not know if I am doing it right and will IMMENSELY appreciate your comments. Thanks!By the way, the drawings are by Gustave Doré and the music is by Edvard Grieg (Sonata for cello and piano in A minor, Op. 36, 2nd movement) [ More Detail ]
NCE musicians, Russian born violinist Leonid Sushansky (the Artistic Director of the National Chamber Ensemble), American pianist Dionne Laufman and Polish cellist Lukasz Szyrner Play the "Largo" movement from the Piano Trio in E minor by Shostakovich. By Aug of 1944 the Russian Troops liberated the Nazi Death Camps and news about the Holocaust started to spread. Shostakovich was very grieved. He wrote the Largo as an elegy for the Jews killed in the Holocaust. [ More Detail ]
NCE musicians, Russian born violinist Leonid Sushansky (the Artistic Director of the National Chamber Ensemble), American pianist Dionne Laufman and Polish cellist Lukasz Szyrner play the final movement from the Piano Trio in E minor by Shostakovich. By Aug of 1944 the Russian Troops liberated the Nazi Death Camps and news about the Holocaust started to spread. Shostakovich was very grieved. He wrote the final two movements of the trio as an elegy to the Jews killed in the Holocaust. Shostakovich uses Jewish Folk Music as thematic material for this very moving ending of the trio. [ More Detail ]