• Title: Canto Inferno
  • Instrumentation: : for soprano, mixed choir and symphony orchestra; poem by Robert Frost
  • Year: 2025
  • Duration: 10′
  • Commissioner:  Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra with financial support from Fonds Podium Kunsten
  • Premiere: 14th of May 2025, St. Lawrence Church, Rotterdam, NL
  • First performer: Soprano – Christiane Karg, Conductor – Matthew Halls, Netherlands Chamber Choir & Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.
  • Genre & Subgenre: Orchestra
  • Scoring: 2fl (picc/fl-a) 2ob 2cl 2bsn 4h 2tp 2trb trb-b tb hrp sopr-solo SATB str
  • Buy Score: Donemus Publishing

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FIRE AND ICE

By Robert Frost

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that for destruction ice
Is also great
And would suffice.

Musical score for Canto Inferno by composer Maxim Shalygin
Musical score for Canto Inferno by composer Maxim Shalygin

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