Morning scent of the acacia’s song

Vache Sharafyan: Morning scent of the acacia’s song for duduk & string quartet (2001), commissioned by Yo-Yo Ma’s Silk Road Project Inc. publisher G. SCHIRMER/ (excerpt)
performers: Gevorg Dabaghyan, Shirly Laub, Colin Jacobsen, Daniel Heim, Jeroen den Herder, Brussels philharmonic hall rehearsal – 2002

The duduk is a traditional woodwind instrument with double reed, popular in Caucasus. Extension goes from the F# on first space to the A over the staff in treble G clef.