Comments on On An Overgrown Path: Coming to a concert hall near you

An interesting overgrown path. The title of that Y...

2008-11-11T18:10:07.087Z

An interesting overgrown path. The title of that YouTube video is the same as William Alwyn's Fifth Symphony - 'Hydriotaphia'.

http://www.overgrownpath.com/2007/08/artworks-on-internet-radio.html

Pliable, without having time to confirm this I'm g...

2008-11-10T15:04:00.000Z

Pliable, without having time to confirm this I'm going to add, nonetheless, that Silvestrov's setting of "Farewell, O world, O Earth" by Taras Schevchenko is also part of the haunting "Cantata" by Silvestrov, available on Megadisc Classics (which introduced Silvestrov, as well as Galina Ustvolskaya to the Western side of Europe back in the early to mid 1990s, prior to Sony and ECM's efforts.)

The poem and the music from the Cantata also, I believe, make their way into Slvestrov's Requiem for his wife, the Ukrainian musicologist Larissa Bondarenko.

(I now have to find time to listen to Silvestrov's new chamber music set for piano, violin, and cello entitled DRAMA -- released about a year ago by Koch Intl Classics and featuring pianist Jenny Lin, cellist Yves Dharamraj, and violinist Cornelius Dufallo.)

The Silent Song used in the YouTube video is "Fare...

2008-11-10T12:45:47.167Z

The Silent Song used in the YouTube video is "Farewell, O world, O Earth" from a poem by Taras Schevchenko.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taras_Shevchenko

Trawling through YouTube clips that feature Silves...

2008-11-10T12:40:09.647Z

Trawling through YouTube clips that feature Silvestrov's music is a fascinating experience.

One video of his Postlude for cello and piano has what sounds like a hairdryer augmenting the cello line -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3C0-PJdi2M&feature=related

Perhaps it escaped from the Magic Spa and Hairdresser in Oslo City Shopping Center which is the unlikely venue for a performance of Silvestrov's Kitsch Music -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5m9RSxRwJ7s&feature=related