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...
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...