Alexander Raskatov

Dans cette petite oeuvre insolite sur des motifs de Mozart, Raskatov joue tout autant avec l'humour que lorsqu'il retravaille, par exemple, très librement Tchaikovski dans le Season's Digest. L'oeuvre...

Cette composition n'exige pas seulement des violoncellistes une technique achevée mais aussi une faculté d'expression particulière qui reflète le message spirituel de la pièce : en pensant, ressentant...

Dans son cycle de chansons de 22 minutes intitulé Black Sun, Alexander Raskatov met en scène sept poèmes d'Ossip Mandelstam - des miniatures obsédantes pleines de peur existentielle, de noirceur métap...

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 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...

Cette composition n'exige pas seulement des violoncellistes une technique achevée mais aussi une faculté d'expression particulière qui reflète le message spirituel de la pièce : en pensant, ressentant...

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...

Dans cette petite oeuvre insolite sur des motifs de Mozart, Raskatov joue tout autant avec l'humour que lorsqu'il retravaille, par exemple, très librement Tchaikovski dans le Season's Digest. L'oeuvre...

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...

Dans les années 1980, Raskatov a expérimenté un système de signes sonores en développement - appelé "linguistique" de la musique - tel que la manière polystylistique de Schnittke et diverses technique...

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...