Dmitri N. Smirnov: DUETS FOR VIOLA & HARP. FAREWELL SONG for viola and harp Op. 37 (1982), 7'. The piece was written for my friends, violist Sergey Rakitchenkov and his wife harpist Olga Ortenberg-Rakitchenkov, immediately after I learned that they decided to leave Russia forever. It was a feeling that everybody is going away, all our close friends and all excellent musicians, leaving us in a desert. The feeling of loss dominates the character of...