Alexander Mosolov - Four Newspaper Announcements, Op. 21

Alexander Mosolov (1900 - 1973) - Four Newspaper Announcements, Op. 21 (1928) I. “Скажите всем...“ [0:00] II. “Собака сбежала...“ [0:19] III. “Гражданин Заика...“ [0:50] IV. “Лично хожу...“ [1:57] Natalia Pschenitschnikova, soprano Steffen Schleiermacher, piano (2014) In Four Newspaper Announcements, Mosolov set four brief announcements in the newspaper Izvestiya to music. The topics of the four short pieces range from a lost dog to the announcement of a name change. The experiment in musical Dadaism satirizes the banality of the announcements by setting them to serious and complex music. Here is the full text of the four songs, in Russian and English: I. Скажите всем, что высшего качества пиявки покупайте и ставьте только Пэ.Эн.Артемьева. Watch out everybody! For leeches of excellent quality buy and apply only those of Pe. En. Artemyev. II. Собака сбежала! Сука, английский сеттер, белая, с ко