In this edition, Silvestrov has compiled for the first time five cycles from a multitude of 'Bagatellen', his favourite genre in recent years - and even recorded them on CD (ECM). What mainly interest...
Silvestrov thinks that a coda is more than something which brings a work to an end. It is one of the most important parts of a composition, or at least just as important as the other sections. His can...
Euromaidan and Revolution of Dignity were the names given to the Ukrainian citizens' protests, which began in November 2013 and reached its bloody peak in February 2014, with 80 deaths. Again and agai...
Anniversary edition on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Valentin Silvestrov: 'This work could well be called (in analogy to Bach's 'Art of Fugue') 'Art of Melody' if there were a didactic mission....
This work is a noble song of praise with a fanned-out texture on a tonal and harmonic basis. 'My hymn is enveloped in silence although it looks like a normal string setting on the outside. The paradox...
This volume contains both early works created in the 1950s-60s and the cycles 'Children's Music' I and II as well as 'Music in the Old Style' from 1973, within the early formative years of the compose...
This volume contains piano works from the years 1996-2003 in which Silvestrov's new compositional language becomes clearly apparent: Although the music shows, both visually and acoustically, Classical...
Silvestrov's violin sonata 'Post scriptum' is another of his chamber music postludes. The composer once stated that the title of the work signifies that it is 'a postscript to Mozart and the whole cla...
The works in this volume are arranged in chronological order and to some extent on the basis of their stylistic character. Five Pieces (1961), Triad (1962) and Elegy (1967), which Silvestrov retrospec...
Exile is the only song cycle by the well-known Georgian composer, and at the same time it is his first attempt to set to music texts in German: 3 psalms (23, 9 and 130), 3 poems by Paul Celan, and one...
Felix Blumenfeld (1863-1931) was not only a well-known composer, but also a great pianist and renowned professor. One of his master pupils was Vladimir Horowitz. As a conductor of the Mariinsky Theatr...
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...
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...
Solstice (for 21 instrumentalists) is an evocation in a single movement using sounds both mellow and acidic, always beautifully contrived. What it is an evocation of, hardly matters; it is music of se...
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...
This is the music for one of Balanchine's greatest ballets, treating of the human condition, love and dreams, notable for its use of mime, costumes and props, and Nicolas Nabokov's music to mark and u...
In Silvestrovs kurzem Chorsatz erklingt nur ein Teil der von Beethoven verwendeten Zeilen aus Schillers 'Ode an die Freude' - die Strophe 'Freude schöner Götterfunken' und 'Seid umschlungen, Millionen...
'Veni, creator spiritus', 'Lacrimosa', 'Alleluja' - diese drei geistlichen Lieder von Valentin Silvestrov bergen zumindest sprachlich keine Probleme, dennoch stellen sie höchste Ansprüche an den bis z...
The work was composed for the celebrations marking the millennium of the Christianization of Russia, and makes use of 16th-century Russian Orthodox texts. The first performance in Moscow on 26 Decembe...
Diptychon is a two-part composition which may be compared to altarpiece. In addition to an image of Christ, this usually depicts the life of a saint. The image of Christ corresponds to the Lord's Pray...
Alexander Glasunov's chorus 'Vniz po matushke po Volge' is unique, largely unknown and unpublished in the West so far. His elaboration of this elegiac Russian folk song evolves from the unanimously in...
Being one of the most important representatives of the Moscow School of Composers around the turn of the century, Sergey Taneyev (1856-1915) takes a special place in Russian music. He was a pupil of T...
Glasunov composed this solemn chorale setting as a form of congratulations on the wedding of two of his friends. The energetic and cheerful character of the music is in charming contrast to the text s...
Being the composer of sacred large-scale choral works (liturgies, masses), Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956) is known to many people, also outside Russia. His early Four Chants Op. 4 for 4-8-part mi...
Textanfang: Am Flu- Kajala schwer verwundet
für Bass - Gesang
Stravinsky composed these songs during his honeymoon in 1906, and dedicated his settings of Alexander Pushkin's erotic and pastoral poems (which were based on works by Vicomte de Parni) to his young w...
