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One of the Irshai’s latest compositions, finished in June 2011, Tasaufi (from the cycle Letters to Ofodur) is dedicated to the memory of the terrible aviation catastrophe in Smolensk from April 10th 2010, in which the Polish president with his wife and several government and army representatives died when flying to Katyn to honour the memory of those executed there 70 years before. The title Tasaufi (so-called Sufism of tasawwuf) refers to the inner, mystical dimension of Islam the main idea of which is purifying one’s inner self and the way to eternal beatitude. The leading motif is derived from the first part of Allemande of the first Bach’s French Suite in D minor. Tone D is the central note (sounding perpetually in melody, harmony or as a bass tone) of the whole composition. Consonance alters dissonance (augmented fourths, seconds, sevenths and ninths) while the interval fifth is of  crucial importance in accompaniment.
Calm and quiet musical flow is interrupted by contrasting section starting from the last third of the piece. Here, the whole process graduates from the homophony and low Dynamics to gradual thickening up to pentachords and the dramatic climax from which it returns again to the basic elements (tone D and the fifth D-A) while the drama is still persisting. The question of human fates, unceasing striving for purification or eternal beatitude remains unsolved...


\n (Zuzana Martináková, in: booklet of the CD \"evgeny irshai – schoenberg variations\", Pavlík records PA 0091-2-131, p. 2–3.)
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First performance abroad

\n \n 29.05.2012, 24th Days of Music by Kraków Composers,\n Institue of Musicology of the Jagiellonian University,\n Kraków,\n PL\n\n
Performers: Marek Szlezer (pf)\n
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