tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post2561689904875983876..comments2024-03-15T20:32:39.815+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: His works revive past musicUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-53886119885476259132010-04-15T04:30:51.017+01:002010-04-15T04:30:51.017+01:00It needs to be mentioned that Requiem for Larissa ...It needs to be mentioned that Requiem for Larissa recording was nominated for a Grammy in 2004 (and in my opinion should have won). A very moving work indeed.JMWhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09520926883774598349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-166322315173815612010-04-14T23:11:00.970+01:002010-04-14T23:11:00.970+01:00Email received from Garth Trinkl:
Pliable, I can ...<i>Email received from Garth Trinkl:</i><br /><br />Pliable, I can report that the National Symphony Orchestra, of Washington, under the young Ukrainian guest conductor Kirill Karabits, will be performing Silvestrov’s ‘Elegy for Strings’ next January at the Kennedy Center. I am pretty sure that it is the first Silvestrov work ever performed at the Center.<br /><br />I don’t know this work, but I see that it was recorded on the Con Legno label, in 1990, under Arvo Volmer and the Estonian State Orchestra.<br /><br />I also see that Silvestrov won the International Serge Koussevitzky Prize in Washington, D.C., back in 1967; and in that year he composed both an ‘Elegy’ and a ‘Hymne’ for 5 ensembles! I will be curious to learn whether it was 44 years between Silvestrov winning the Koussevitzky Prize and the first performance of a work by him in Washington. All best.<br /><br />http://renaissanceresearch.blogspot.com/Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-68673163716359498672010-04-14T21:06:48.138+01:002010-04-14T21:06:48.138+01:00I agree totally with the comments about Requiem fo...I agree totally with the comments about Requiem for Larissa. <br />I would also add String Quartet No 1<br />Ikon for string quartet on the cd A Place Between. That must be one of the most gorgeous piece of music written.<br /><br />Symphony No5 ( a Masterpiece)<br />Bagatellen ( 35 cycles!)<br />Fleeting Memories<br />Silent Songs<br />Sacred Songs<br />Waltz of the Alphine Bells for solo cello<br />Elegy for solo cello and tam tams<br />Stufen<br />triptych<br />Sorry I love him.. I could go on.. <br />3 pieces dedicated to Eamonn Quinn<br />5 new pieces for violin and piano ( gorgeous) <br />5 Sacred songs ( 2009)<br />I'll stop... <br />4 pieces for solo violin 2009<br />I promise ...<br />Elegy for choir ( amazing)<br />Dyptych for choir ( Masterpiece)<br />I'm signing off<br />Litany 2005Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08308847817949232143noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-37564459046223153132010-04-14T19:22:25.057+01:002010-04-14T19:22:25.057+01:00TMH, I would totally agree with you about the ECM ...TMH, I would totally agree with you about the ECM discs of Silvestrov's <i>Silent Songs</i> - quite magical.<br /><br />Isn't it interesting how the same names seem to keep coming up - Silvestrov, Garbarek etc? I took Jan Garbarek's <i>Madar</i> with me to Morocco on my iPod and was fascinated to find pirate copies of it all over the souks.<br /><br />Before your email arrived I was reflecting on how art music seems to be splitting into parallel universes. On the one hand there is the BBC Radio 3 specialist chart with André Rieu etc. On the other hand there is all this gorgeous stuff from ECM, Enja etc. The two never seem to meet. Which is probably a very good thing.Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-83762202115123139242010-04-14T19:00:55.380+01:002010-04-14T19:00:55.380+01:00The Silvestrov ECM recording I find most affecting...The Silvestrov ECM recording I find most affecting and I return to most often is the 2 CD set Silent Songs. Interestingly, one of those rare ECM releases that is actually a release of an earlier non ECM recording.<br /><br />On a similar path, Jansung Kakhidze's "The Moon Over Mtatsminda" (released on Jan Garbarek's Rites) never fails to move me to tears.<br /><br />Sticking to this path, the Jimmy Giuffre ECM re-issue is another favourite.The Marches Hatterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02717010843247210169noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-29204767959878737822010-04-14T17:34:35.286+01:002010-04-14T17:34:35.286+01:00I could could find no biographical links to the mu...I could could find no biographical links to the musicologist Larissa Bondarenko, hence no link. Reader discoveries as ever welcome. <br /><br />A reader has just emailed having found out what I also discovered. There is an Uzbekistan supermodel called Larissa Bondarenko.<br /><br />http://www.supermodels.nl/larissabondarenko<br /><br />Amazing where <i>Passion and Resurrection</i> takes you ...Pliablehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10616598845886342325noreply@blogger.com