С. Борткевич: “Истинная правда“. Op. 30, No. 7 (Stephen Fierros)

“It is Quite Certain“ is the 7th of 12 movements from the suite “Aus Andersens Marchen“ , Op. 30, subtitled “A Musical Picture Book“ by the Russian/Ukranian composer Serge Bortkiewicz. Each piece in the suite is based in some way on a fairy tale written by Hans Christian Andersen. This seventh piece tells the story of a hen was picking at her feathers in the henhouse when one fell out. For fun she said, “There it goes, the more I peck at myself, the more beautiful I become’. Her neighbor heard her and could not resist telling the next hen that there was a hen determined to pluck off her feathers to look more attractive. The owl above the henhouse heard this and told the pigeons that there was a hen that had plucked out all her feathers for the rooster’s sake. By the time the crow had heard, the story had become that of three hens who had plucked off all their feathers because of unrequited love. By the time the story came back to the original hen (who, of cour