Valentin Silvestrov

This book contains Silvestrov's hitherto only works for solo violoncello created after 2000. The cello is one of the central instruments in the composer's oeuvre. In several works, he has managed to p...

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....

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...

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....

With this homage, the composer bows to J.S. Bach by repackaging seemingly familiar things and listening sensitively after melody fragments and harmonies. The violin part, mostly supported by the piano...

This work is a noble song of praise with a fanned-out texture on a tonal and harmonic basis. 'My hymn is enveloped in silence although it looks like a normal string setting on the outside. The paradox...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Le opere contenute in questo volume sono disposte in ordine cronologico e, in qualche misura, in base al loro carattere stilistico. I Cinque pezzi (1961), la Triade (1962) e l'Elegia (1967), che Silve...

Ein Schlaflied für das Jesus-Kind und 'Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht' auf Ukrainisch, mit volkstümlichen Worten, 'als seien diese gerade eben auf den Lippen der Menschen von Heute erschienen' (V. Silves...

Ein Schlaflied für das Jesus-Kind und 'Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht' auf Ukrainisch, mit volkstümlichen Worten, 'als seien diese gerade eben auf den Lippen der Menschen von Heute erschienen' (V. Silves...

The poem 'Over All the Mountain Tops is Peace' by Goethe as well as Lermontov's 'Gornye ver(s

The poem 'Over All the Mountain Tops is Peace' by Goethe as well as Lermontov's 'Gornye ver(s

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...