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...
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 '...
Felix Blumenfeld (1863-1931) was not only a well-known composer, but also a great pianist and renowned professor. One of his master pupils was Vladimir Horowitz. As a conductor of the Mariinsky Theatr...
This composition not only demands extremely high technical skills of the cellist, but also a special ability of expression which reflects the spiritual message of the piece: By thinking, feeling, spea...
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...
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...
The organ composition 'Confession II' (2000) is a completely revised version of 'Confession' from 1993 - a second attempt 'to admit, to confess', so to speak - which this time is even more direct, mor...
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...
In this showpiece with alienated Mozart motifs, Raskatov plays with as much humour and with as, for example, in his Tchaikovsky paraphrase The Season's Digest. The work bears the ambiguous subtitle no...
Mansuryan's collaboration of more than 10 years with the violinist Kim Kashkashian and her duo partner Robyn Schulkowsky (percussion) resulted in the composition of the works published here. In them,...
Soprano and bass clarinet, closely interwoven with each other, intone a big lament on the end of the world and surrender to a painful apocalyptic vision which evokes the horrors of mankind and earth:...