With this homage, the composer bows to J.S. Bach by repackaging seemingly familiar things and listening sensitively after melody fragments and harmonies. The violin part, mostly supported by the piano...
Confessing with Faith' ist eine Reihe von Gebeten von dem berühmten armenischen Priester Nerses Schnorhali (1102-1173). Von den 24 Gebeten, die je einer Stunde des Tages zugedacht sind, habe ich für m...
The work consists of three movements, the second of which is for string quartet only. The lyrical and expressive character of the music is enhanced by the use and liberal treatment of a twelve-tone ro...
The Three Songs are settings of poems by Mandelstam which he wrote in exile in Voronesh before he was arrested for the second and last time. Three parallel developmental strands may be discerned in th...
The organ composition 'Confession II' (2000) is a completely revised version of 'Confession' from 1993 - a second attempt 'to admit, to confess', so to speak - which this time is even more direct, mor...
The creation of the sextet was initiated by my friend and fellow pianist, Alexei Lubimov. It is about my city - Moscow, where I've lived for almost 40 years. I love this place. But, each time I return...
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...
