M.P. Belaieff

Gretchaninov (1864-1956), connu surtout pour ses pièces pour piano, chansons et opéras pour enfants, connut ses premiers succès dans le cercle de l'éditeur et mécène pétersbourgeois M. P. Belaieff qui...

Mansurian studied Beethoven's 6 Bagatelles Op. 126 and coupled them with thoughts by Proust and T. S. Eliot: The smallest things in life, the little, seemingly useless facts of everyday life are given...

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...

Prince André Volkonsky (1933-2008) was a rather charismatic figure in the Russian post-war music scene. His role as a 'pioneer' in the field of twelve-note music in Russia cannot be overemphasized. Hi...

Hymn for violin and cello was commissioned by violinist Edna Mishell for her international musical project 'Compassion Through Music' which was dedicated to the memory of Yehudi Menuhin. The main idea...

Le Trio à cordes du compositeur Tigran Mansurian a été créé en 2009 au Dilijan Chamber Music Series de Glendale en Californie. ' Le nouveau trio de Mansurian comporte trois mouvements courts. Dans le...

Le Trio à cordes du compositeur Tigran Mansurian a été créé en 2009 au Dilijan Chamber Music Series de Glendale en Californie. ' Le nouveau trio de Mansurian comporte trois mouvements courts. Dans le...

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...

After I had dedicated my first quartet (1983/84) to the memory of a friend and musician who died young, I had to mourn the death of yet another friend: Eduard Khagagortyan. To him, I dedicated my seco...

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...

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...

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...

The work was written for the saxophonist Margarita Shaposhnikova, professor at the Gnessin Institute (now Russian Academy of Music), and was performed by her in 1987 in the Great Hall of the Academy....

The present publication is based on an earlier vocal composition by Mansurian with the same title Four Hayrens for mezzo-soprano and piano (1967). Forty years later, in 2007 (and again revised in 2010...

Cette musique a été composée à la mémoire de la veuve du compositeur, Larissa Bondarenko. L'oeuvre est une combinaison hybride de lied sous forme strophique et de lamento baroque (quasi chaconne). Son...

What does the Lotus Effect have to do with modal structures and prosodic forms of ancient Armenian sacred music? Tigran Mansurian attempts to fathom these mysteries - the magical plant with its unique...

Au tournant du siècle, les oeuvres originales pour alto de compositeurs russes sont une vraie rareté. C'est pour cette raison que, dans ce volume, ont été inclues des oeuvres que les auteurs autorisen...

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...