Valentin Silvestrov : Partitions difficile

D'une multitude de bagatelles, qui demeurent ces dernières années son genre de prédilection, Silvestrov a pour la première fois dans ce recueil constitué cinq cycles. Son intérêt pour les bagatelles s...

The Sonata for cello and piano introduces a 'novel imaginary instrument', a cello piano which is played in a mysterious way, as if by a musician.This metaphorical instrumentation creates a metaphorica...

Quasi Vc-solo means that the two cellists shall communicate with each other in a very careful and gentle way, shall respond to each other in a sensitive way, to sound as only one instrument, a cello '...

Though Silvestrov's 'Elegy' for cello and two tam-tams continues the series of his earlier elegy compositions in some ways, it is here given a whole new shape, with the cello being accompanied by two...

Cette composition est à la fois une clé et une interface dans l'oeuvre de Silvestrov : la fin de sa période avantgardiste et le début de ce qu'il nommera plus tard métamusique. La structure de l'oeuvr...

I would like to take this opportunity to express my sincerest gratitude to Eamonn Quinn, Artistic Director of Louth Contemporary Music Society in Ireland, for his deep empathy, appreciation and great...

Une inflexion irlandaise (dit-il lui-même), et quelques idées naïves transmettent un enthousiasme pour l'Irlande dont le destin historique rappelle à Silvestrov sa patrie l'Ukraine. L'œuvre fait l'obj...

String Quartet No. 1 is one of the most successful and most frequently performed works by Silvestrov. It can be described as a work standing on a threshold between avant-garde and post-avant-garde and...

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

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....

Les Quatre Psaumes (2024) - commandés par la Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco - sont dédiés à Son Altesse Royale la Princesse Caroline de Hanovre. Ce cycle exprime l'attitude spirituelle très personn...

Ce volume publie les seules pièces pour violoncelle seul que, jusqu'à présent, Silvestrov a écrites depuis 2002. Le violoncelle est un des instruments centraux dans l'oeuvre du compositeur. Ce dernier...