Věruju (I Believe) - Peter Graham
"The composition entitled Věruju (I Believe) based on an Old Church Slavonic text was written in 2004 on the occasion of Eva Tálská’s performance of the Ancient Czech Myths (Studio Dům). It was, in fact, merely an interlude within a more extensive score based on the myth about Svatopluk and only a part of it was actually used in the performance. In 2007 I revised the piece and dedicated this new version to the composer Roman Berger on the occasion of his 77th birthday. The uncommonly plain choral setting calls for a corresponding rustic and inornate mode of expression reminiscent of the atmosphere of the early Christian piety."
Interest of Peter Graham (b. 1952) is in composition. Graham says of his own music, that it "grows as does timber in a forest", without predetermined plans and goals. He is concerned with creation itself rather than with the cultivation of the personality: "I am what I do."
Other compositions by Peter Graham published in Czech Radio:
Carceri d´invenzione, Chromatic fantasy and fugue for accordion
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