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...
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...
In the silence of the monotonous steppes of Central Asia is heard the previously unfamiliar sound of a peaceful Russian song and from afar the clattering of horses and the footsteps of camels and the...
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...
Les oeuvres de ce volume sont classées par ordre chronologique et en partie selon leur style. Cinq pièces (1961), Triade (1962) and Elégie (1967), qualifiées rétrospectivement par Silvestrov de dodéca...
Dans ces oeuvres pour piano composées de 1996 à 2003, le nouveau langage de Silvestrov s'exprime explicitement : bien que présentant optiquement et acoustiquement des composantes classiques et romanti...
Anja Lechner, cellist and dedicatee of 'Hieroglyphs of the night' explains her feelings with Silvestrov's music: '... it changed me. I was so moved by this delicate, breathing sounds and melodic fragm...
Felix Blumenfeld (1863-1931) ne fut pas seulement un compositeur connu mais aussi un grand pianiste et un professeur réputé. Vladimir Horowitz fit partie de ses élèves. Dans sa fonction de chef d'orch...
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...
Duo Fantasia is dedicated to Professor Luise Vosgerchian, whose mixture of fantasy, discipline and ebullience has shaped the lives of generations of American musicians. Among these are Lynn Chang and...
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...
Although the first version of the Duo was composed in 1998, I rewrote it completely for Giedre Dirvanauskaite and Daniel Grishin who premiered it at Lockenhaus festival 2011. The sub-title, 'After Oss...
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...
The edition contains two string quartet miniatures which are 43 years apart. Quartetto piccolo (1961) is Valentin Silvestrov's first twelve-note composition which consists of three little movements me...
Le 1er quatuor à cordes (1983-1984) de Mansurian nous mène sur le long chemin de la simplicité, en un voyage enchanté dans le déroulement duquel la question de savoir si cette musique est nouvelle ou...
Cette oeuvre est un chant d'éloge, de texture diversifiée sur une base tonale et harmonique élargie. Même s'il ressemble à un ensemble à cordes habituel, mon hymne est enveloppé de silence. Le paradox...
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....
The Violin Concerto op. 82 is one of Glazunov's best-known works. Since the first performance in 1905 conducted by the composer, when Leopold Auer was the soloist, virtually all the great violinists h...
Klavierauszug mit Solostimme
Original für Trompete und Klavier - arrangiert für Violine und Klavier.
Victor Kissine's 'Caprice' was performed at the Brussels concert hall of Flagey in May 2012 by 24 semifinalists at the Belgian Queen Elisabeth Music Competition. 'Although commissioned by and composed...
(Text: frz. / dt. / russ.)
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...
Con moto, poco rubato, dolce, leggiero, lontano ... - these terms at the beginning of the score occur in almost all compositions of Silvestrov, not only in those many smaller pieces for various ensemb...
Glazunov's Organ Works, which include intricate fugues and double fugues, show that during his lifetime he was the only important Russian composer to write for the organ. His numerous works combine th...
Alexander Glasunov's famous Saxophone Quartet Op. 109 (1932) is one of his last works and, at the same time, one of the earliest quartets for this instrumentation at all. The work is virtually a littl...
Les (oEuvres pour piano du compositeur, chef d'orchestre et pianiste Felix Blumenfeld (1863-1931) n'ont injustement reçu que peu d'attention lors des dernières décennies. Avec la nouvelle édition des...
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...
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...
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...
La composition pour orgue Confession II (2000) est une version entièrement révisée de la Confession de 1993 - une sorte de seconde tentative de professer sa foi, de se confesser - encore plus directem...
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...
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...
C'est une collaboration de plus de 10 ans avec l'altiste Kim Kashkashian et sa partenaire Robyn Schulkowsky (percussion) que sont nées les oeuvres de Mansurian publiées ici. La combinaison inhabituell...
Soprano et clarinette basse, étroitement entrelacées, entonnent une grande lamentation sur la fin du monde et s'abandonnent à une douloureuse vision apocalyptique qui évoque les horreurs pour l'humani...
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...
L'Agnus Dei, composé en 2006 pour la 15e Musikfest Oleg Kagan de Wildbach Kreuth, est une des oeuvres méditatives de Mansurian dans laquelle il recherche une synthèse entre les techniques nouvelles et...
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...
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...
Le va et le vient is a suite de ballet which might well one day return to the stage as a ballet. Originally commissioned by Merce Cunningham and performed under the title Set, Hold, Clear and Squelch...