Valentin Silvestrov

In questa edizione, Silvestrov ha raccolto per la prima volta cinque cicli da una moltitudine di "Bagatellen", il suo genere preferito negli ultimi anni - e li ha anche registrati su CD (ECM). Ciò che...

In questa edizione, Silvestrov ha raccolto per la prima volta cinque cicli da una moltitudine di "Bagatellen", il suo genere preferito negli ultimi anni - e li ha anche registrati su CD (ECM). Ciò che...

In Silvestrovs kurzem Chorsatz erklingt nur ein Teil der von Beethoven verwendeten Zeilen aus Schillers 'Ode an die Freude' - die Strophe 'Freude schöner Götterfunken' und 'Seid umschlungen, Millionen...

'Veni, creator spiritus', 'Lacrimosa', 'Alleluja' - diese drei geistlichen Lieder von Valentin Silvestrov bergen zumindest sprachlich keine Probleme, dennoch stellen sie höchste Ansprüche an den bis z...

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...

I Quattro Salmi (2024) - commissionati dalla Fondation Prince Pierre de Monaco - sono dedicati a Sua Altezza Reale la Principessa Carolina di Hannover. Questo ciclo esprime l'atteggiamento spirituale...

Il compositore intreccia la polifonia delle voci dei poeti (Pushkin, Lermontov, Tyutchev, Baratynsky, Yesenin, Mandelstam, Keats, Shelley e altri) in un insieme integrale, in un'armonia misteriosa. L'...

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...

This volume contains piano works from the years 1996-2003 in which Silvestrov's new compositional language becomes clearly apparent: Although the music shows, both visually and acoustically, Classical...

This music was created in memory of Larissa Bondarenko, the late wife of the composer. The work is a hybrid combination of strophic lied form and Baroque lamento (more or less chaconne). The exquisite...

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...

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 '...

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...

Diptychon is a two-part composition which may be compared to altarpiece. In addition to an image of Christ, this usually depicts the life of a saint. The image of Christ corresponds to the Lord's Pray...

Kein Sommernachtstraum, sondern Eine Winternachtsmusik - mit elektronisch erzeugten Windgeräuschen: 'Ein sehr leiser Winterwind, den man wie aus der Ferne von draußen durch das Fenster hört.' - so die...

Silvestrov thinks that a coda is more than something which brings a work to an end. It is one of the most important parts of a composition, or at least just as important as the other sections. His can...

The Trio is the last work composed on the basis of dodecaphonic techniques, which at the time I considered to be a way of composing lyrical music. The work has two movements (I Sonatina, II Variations...