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Owen's Poems

by Massimo Pinca

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1.
From my diary (July 1914) 04:01
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2.
The Parable of the Old Man and the Young (Prelude) 02:07
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3.
The Parable of the Old Man and the Young 02:26
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4.
Dulce et Decorum Est 04:39
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5.
Inspection 02:38
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6.
Looking Forward 05:40
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To My Friend (With an Identity Disc) 04:51
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8.
The Chances 02:34
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The Fates 03:32
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10.
The Next War 03:32
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11.
Au-dessus de la mêlée 08:34
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about

Wilfred Owen died on the battlefield in 1918, aged 25, just one week before the ceasefire that put an end to the First World War. In the last years of his short life, with millions of other young men like himself, he experienced the horrors of the then new industrial warfare. Fighting relentlessly and living in the trenches under constant heavy artillery bombardments and gas attacks, he was able, against these incredible odds, to compose the poetry that has immortalised him and his comrades. In the preface to a collection of his work that he would not live to see printed, he wrote, that “This book is not about heroes. […] Nor is it about deeds, or lands, nor anything about glory, honour, might, majesty, dominion, or power, except War. Above all, this book is not concerned with Poetry. The subject of it is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is in the pity”.

When Yves Charpentier, artistic director of the Cross-Opéra festival in Lyon, France, asked me to compose some new material for voice and a chamber ensemble, I was already working on another project about early 20th Century history. That’s how I discovered Owen’s works, and they struck me deeply from the very first reading. I humbly decided to base my new compositions on eight of his poems, and the Tarka Ensemble premiered this program on February 19, 2015.

One hundred years after the end of WWI we still live in dark times. The better men hopefully envisaged by Owen in his poem The Next War have not yet emerged. But perhaps, reading his words, we might still believe with him that the appreciation of beauty can yet represent a quiet means of escape from man's seemingly neverending inhumanity to man. 

I would like to thank profoundly the wonderful musicians who gave life to these compositions, as well as Yves Charpentier for allowing this project to see the light of day. I would also like to thank all the personnel at Indie Hub and Pure Music and Film in Milan for their brilliant craftsmanship, which has made this music available to you.

This work is dedicated to the memory of my Grandparents, with whom I had too little time on this Earth, and to all the people who, like them, suffered and still suffer as a direct result of war.

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released February 1, 2017

Massimo Pinca - Double bass and composition
Capucine Keller - Voice
Bor Zuljan - Guitar
Nicola Orioli - Clarinet

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Gabriele Simoni at Indie Hub Studio, Milan, July 9-11 2016

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