Oshidori
Pehr Henrik Nordgren
Oshidori
Description
[...] Oshidori, which means mandarin duck, symbolizes in old Japanese popular belief marital affection. The story is about a hunter who shoots the male bird of an oshidori couple, the female’s grief which appears in his nightmare, the lonely oshidori’s ‘harakiri’ with its beak, and finally how the hunter atones for his crime by becoming a priest.
© Pehr Henrik Nordgren
Instrumentation
pno
Category
Works for Solo Instrument
Opus no.
op. 25
Premiere
Izumi Tateno, piano, Helsinki, January 18, 1976; See also: Kwaidan II (2004)