Two Watercolors (Spring and On a Clear Morning)

(Both choruses are also available individually: see CMR012-1 - Spring, and CMR012-2 - On a Clear Morning.)

Alexei Larin (b. 1954) is one of the most active composers in Russia today, having written numerous works for chorus, for ensembles of Russian folk instruments, as well as for various classical instruments. As a composer, Larin His works have been widely performed and recorded by Russian and non-Russian soloists and ensembles. As the title suggests, “Two Watercolors”—1. Spring and 2. On a Clear Morning—are two “musical “paintings” employing lovely nature poetry by Ivan Bunin (1870–1953), the first Russian writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature (in 1933).