M.P. Belaieff

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 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...

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,...

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...

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 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 Four Psalms (2024) – commissioned by the Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco – are dedicated to Her Royal Highness Princess Caroline of Hanover. This cycle expresses Silvestrov's very personal, spir...

Alexander Glasunov's chorus 'Vniz po matushke po Volge' is unique, largely unknown and unpublished in the West so far.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...