Mansuryan's collaboration of more than 10 years with the violinist Kim Kashkashian and her duo partner Robyn Schulkowsky (percussion) resulted in the composition of the works published here. In them,...
Soprano and bass clarinet, closely interwoven with each other, intone a big lament on the end of the world and surrender to a painful apocalyptic vision which evokes the horrors of mankind and earth:...
Young composers often make their living with incidental music. Such was the case of Leonid Desyatnikov (*1955) who wrote in his early years a lot of music for puppet shows and dramatic performances. L...
Composed in 2006 for the 15th Oleg Kagan Festival in Wildbad Kreuth, 'Agnus Dei' is one of Mansurjan's meditative works in which he aims at a synthesis of new techniques and old Armenian musical tradi...
The choir sings: 'There exists in a distant land / On the opposite shore / What we see in dreams / But is given to the foe.' The Song is dedicated to the composer Alexander Raskatov, who had just emig...
Nikolai Tcherepnin, a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov, composed this Divertimento in 1943. The work was first published after his death. As the title suggests, the piece is both playful and serene, though it...
Alfred Julius Swan (1890-1970) comes from an English family who has been engaged in the rubber business in Russia for generations. He attended the Conservatoire of St. Petersburg, studied law, music a...
