Alexander Raskatov

In this showpiece with alienated Mozart motifs, Raskatov plays with as much humour and with as, for example, in his Tchaikovsky paraphrase The Season's Digest. The work bears the ambiguous subtitle no...

This composition not only demands extremely high technical skills of the cellist, but also a special ability of expression which reflects the spiritual message of the piece: By thinking, feeling, spea...

In his 22-minute song cycle Black Sun, Alexander Raskatov sets seven poems by Ossip Mandelstam – haunting miniatures full of existential fear, metaphysical darkness and fleeting hope. Raskatov dedicat...

In this, as in some of his other works, Raskatov strives to attain to a kind of timelessness. The music of 'Kaddish' (Prayer), which owes a great deal to its Hebrew origins, has certain archaic traits...

The work was inspired by the work of the Russian poet Xenia Nekrassova, who, after achieving some success in the 1950s, died forgotten and in complete poverty. The childish and naïve character of her...

The work Path (1987) unfolds so to say from top to bottom. The descending line is metonymic with the path through life - from birth to grave. The beginning flageolets of the cellos and the simple moti...

The title is a quote from the essay 'The Rose of Paracelsus' by Jorge Luis Borges. This parable is about the secret of the creation of a miracle, the disappearance and reappearance of the rose as well...

Einige Jahre nach Alfred Schnittkes Tod beauftragte dessen Witwe Irina den Kom-ponisten Alexander Raskatov mit der Rekonstruktion der 9. Sinfonie ihres Man-nes, der das Werk am Ende seines Lebens, inz...

This composition not only demands extremely high technical skills of the cellist, but also a special ability of expression which reflects the spiritual message of the piece: By thinking, feeling, spea...

Raskatov wrote Abgesang in the Autumn of 2002 on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Yuri Kholopov, a renowned music theorist at the Moscow Conservatory, with whom he had been studying for many years...

The work Path (1987) unfolds so to say from top to bottom. The descending line is metonymic with the path through life - from birth to grave. The beginning flageolets of the cellos and the simple moti...

The title is a quote from the essay 'The Rose of Paracelsus' by Jorge Luis Borges. This parable is about the secret of the creation of a miracle, the disappearance and reappearance of the rose as well...

This strikingly original work was written in 1994 for the saxophone competition at the Paris Conservatory. The player needs two instruments, a soprano and a tenor saxophone. He is accompanied by a sol...

In this showpiece with alienated Mozart motifs, Raskatov plays with as much humour and with as, for example, in his Tchaikovsky paraphrase The Season's Digest. The work bears the ambiguous subtitle no...

In the 1980s Raskatov had experimented with a developing aural sign system - call it the "linguistics" of music - such as the polystylistic manner of Schnittke, and various minimalist techniques. At t...

Obikhod heißt die Sammlung aller liturgischen Gesänge der russisch-orthodoxen Kirche. Die Gesänge basieren auf typisierten, melodischen Wendungen oder Modi, den sog. Oktoechos. Seit dem Mittelalter bi...

In the 1980s Raskatov had experimented with a developing aural sign system – call it the „linguistics“ of music – such as the polystylistic manner of Schnittke, and various minimalist techniques. At t...

Raskatov wrote Abgesang in the Autumn of 2002 on the occasion of the 70th birthday of Yuri Kholopov, a renowned music theorist at the Moscow Conservatory, with whom he had been studying for many years...

Obikhod heißt die Sammlung aller liturgischen Gesänge der russisch-orthodoxen Kirche. Die Gesänge basieren auf typisierten, melodischen Wendungen oder Modi, den sog. Oktoechos. Seit dem Mittelalter bi...