Serbian Love Songs

The seven poems are my very personal choice from the prolific field of beautiful Serbian language poetry from different epochs. Musical language and musical aesthetics that I have chosen are very much different from most of my past and future works and compositional approaches. This stylistical approach that might seem archaic (to a conservative listener) is actually driven by a progressive impulse of the personal need of the composer to be the part of the re-contextualised "tonal/modal" sound world.

1. Srce puno jada (national folk poetry)

2. Tijo Noći (Jovan Jovanović Zmaj)

3. Naj ti prsten momče (national folk poetry)

4. Mizera (Miloš Crnjanski)

5. Izgovor (national folk poetry)

6. Očiju tvojih da nije (Vasko Popa)

7. Daleko u nama (Vasko Popa)