Schnittke Silvestrov

Matangi Quartet - Outcast - Schnittke, Silvestrov & Shostakovich (2022) [Official Digital Download]

Matangi Quartet - Outcast - Schnittke, Silvestrov & Shostakovich (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/44,1 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 69:40 minutes | 602 MB
Classical | Label: Matangi Quartet, Official Digital Download

With "Outcast", the Dutch string quartet Matangi breaks a lance for artistic freedom and musical expression - and now also against a senseless war. The three Soviet Russian composers composed music that ran dangerously counter to the tastes of the regime under which they lived. Shostakovich kept a packed suitcase ready in case he was arrested by the KGB. Schnittke's work was viewed with suspicion and his performances were regularly prevented. In addition to his musical work, the Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov is also known for his political commitment.
Matangi Quartet - Outcast - Schnittke, Silvestrov & Shostakovich (2022)

Matangi Quartet - Outcast - Schnittke, Silvestrov & Shostakovich (2022)
WEB FLAC (tracks) - 253 Mb | MP3 CBR 320 kbps - 160 Mb | Digital booklet | 01:09:40
Classical | Label: Self-Released

With "Outcast", the Dutch string quartet Matangi breaks a lance for artistic freedom and musical expression - and now also against a senseless war. The three Soviet Russian composers composed music that ran dangerously counter to the tastes of the regime under which they lived. Shostakovich kept a packed suitcase ready in case he was arrested by the KGB. Schnittke's work was viewed with suspicion and his performances were regularly prevented. In addition to his musical work, the Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov is also known for his political commitment.

Jenny Lin - Nostalghia: Piano Works by Valentin Silvestrov (2006)  Music

Posted by Designol at March 27, 2024
Jenny Lin - Nostalghia: Piano Works by Valentin Silvestrov (2006)

Jenny Lin - Nostalghia: Piano Works by Valentin Silvestrov (2006)
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 192 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 181 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Contemporary | Label: Hänssler Classic | # CD 98.229 | Time: 01:15:27

The music of Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov is a unique and delicate tapestry of dramatic and emotional textures, that freely alludes to the entire history of music. "I do not write new music. My music is a response to and an echo of what already exists," Silvestrov has said. Beginning his creative career in the radical Soviet Avant-Garde, Silvestrov demonstrated an almost painful sensitivity to the intimacy that music can create between performer and listener. Silvestrov would later refute his modernist roots, saying “the most important lesson of the Avant-Garde is to be free of all conceived ideas, particularly those of the Avant-Garde” and began composing a series of works entitled “Postludium” that initiated the elegiac, poetic and highly personal relationship with silence which has come to characterize his most recent music. Haenssler Classic is proud to present pianist Jenny Lin in the World Premiere Recording of Silvestrov’s “Three Postludes”, a work composed especially for her.

Valentin Silvestrov - New Bagatelles (2017) 3CDs  Music

Posted by Designol at March 10, 2021
Valentin Silvestrov - New Bagatelles (2017) 3CDs

Valentin Silvestrov - New Bagatelles (2017) 3CDs
EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue&Log) ~ 779 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 532 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Дух і Літера | # None | Time: 03:46:57

Alfred Schnittke and Arvo Pärt have both called the Ukrainian Valentin Silvestrov "one of the greatest composers of our time”. He is also one of its true originals; though a leading figure in the former Soviet Union’s avant-garde in the 1960s, he subsequently came to realise that "the most important lesson of the avant-garde was to be free of all preconceived ideas – particularly those of the avant-garde." Silvestrov was born in Kiev in 1937 and studied the piano at Kiev Evening Music School, then composition, harmony and counterpoint at the Tchaikovsky Conservatory. His early experimental orientation meant that his work received official criticism in the Soviet Union and, despite prizes and some prominent champions, recognition in his homeland and beyond was hard won. Over time, Silvestrov’s compositional practice evolved into what he would come to call his “metaphorical style” or “meta-music.” The composer wishes his works to be seen as “codas” to musical history because “fewer and fewer texts are possible which… begin at the beginning”. He has declared that “I do not write new music. My music is a response to and an echo of what already exists.”
Alexei Lubimov, Jana Ivanilova - Valentin Silvestrov: Stufen (Song Cycle) (1999)

Valentin Silvestrov: Stufen (Song Cycle) (1999)
Alexei Lubimov (piano), Jana Ivanilova (Soprano), Valentin Silvestrov (piano)

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 154 Mb | Covers included | Time: 01:12:42
Classical, Contemporary | Label: Megadisc | # MDC 7832

Valentin Silvestrov is not just the Ukraine’s most prominent composer but also a major voice in the music of our time: a quiet voice, to be sure, and one that some will pigeon-hole at the soft-core end of the New Spirituality. But even a first encounter should suggest the presence of deeper perspectives, and encounters with the full range of his music only serve to confirm that impression. Russian commentators have long since ranged Silvestrov alongside Schnittke, Gubaidulina and Denisov as one of the most important figures that came to maturity in the 1970s. It was then that he produced music such as the two Cantatas – the earlier one for soprano and chamber orchestra, setting words by Tyuchev and Blok, the later one for a cappella choir to verses by Ukraine’s national poet, Taras Chevchenko. Both works blend Webernian angularity with an ecstatic lyricism.
National Choir of Ukraine, 'Dumka', Yevhen Savchuk - Valentin Silvestrov: Requiem for Larissa (2004)

Valentin Silvestrov: Requiem for Larissa (2004)
National Symphony Orchestra Of Ukraine, conducted by Volodymyr Sirenko
National Choir of Ukraine "Dumka", Yevhen Savchuk, choirmaster

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 209 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 150 Mb | Scans included
Classical, Choral | Label: ECM | # ECM New Series 1778, 472 1122 | Time: 00:52:33

Valentin Silvestrov composed Requiem for Larissa between 1997 and 1999 as a memorial to his wife, musicologist Larissa Bondarenko, who died in 1996. It is a big and unceasingly somber work, scored for chorus and orchestra. Understandably, this Requiem is to a degree reflective, incorporating musical themes drawn from older works that had special meaning to the couple. While Silvestrov's typically glacial tempos are in evidence here, some of the opening half of the piece has an angular spikiness that recalls serial techniques without actively engaging in them. Instrumentally, Requiem for Larissa is dark, atmospheric, and even a little cinematic; the choral parts are sparse and minimally applied. In the fourth-movement Largo, the voices take over and settle down into an ethereal texture that leavens the gloom somewhat, but by this time 25-and-a-half minutes have gone by and some listeners will have already tuned out owing to the toughness of the opening section.Requiem for Larissa is an intensely personal piece performed with respect and care by the Ukrainian National Chorus and Symphony Orchestra under conductor Vladimir Sirenko.

Gidon Kremer & Kremerata Baltica - After Mozart (2001)  Music

Posted by Designol at Nov. 13, 2022
Gidon Kremer & Kremerata Baltica - After Mozart (2001)

Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica - After Mozart (2001)
W.A. Mozart - Alexander Raskatov - Valentin Silvestrov - Alfred Schnittke - Leopold Mozart

EAC | FLAC | Image (Cue&Log) ~ 290 Mb | Mp3 (CBR320) ~ 177 Mb | Scans included
Genre: Classical | Label: Nonesuch | # 79633-2 | Time: 01:06:25

After Mozart, the 2001 Grammy winner for Best Small Ensemble Performance, by Gidon Kremer and Kremerata Baltica, brings together the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (and his father, Leopold), with three contemporary works inspired by him. The works included, by contemporary Eastern European composers such as Alexander Raskatov, Valentin Silvestrov and Alfred Schnittke, invoke Mozart’s memory in ways direct and more subtle, and the more familiar Mozart pieces sandwiched in serve to bring the listener to a new way of hearing the more familiar pieces. The disc is an attempt, in Kremer’s words, to “set Mozart in the frame of our own time”.
Sonic Overload: Alfred Schnittke, Valentin Silvestrov, and Polystylism in the Late USSR

Sonic Overload: Alfred Schnittke, Valentin Silvestrov, and Polystylism in the Late USSR By Peter J. Schmelz
2020 | 430 Pages | ISBN: 0197541259 | PDF | 10 MB

Boris Berman - Valentin Silvestrov (2023) [Official Digital Download]  Vinyl & HR

Posted by pyatak at Feb. 21, 2023
Boris Berman - Valentin Silvestrov (2023) [Official Digital Download]

Boris Berman - Valentin Silvestrov (2023) [Official Digital Download]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/88.2 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 01:45:15 minutes | 1.57 GB
Classical | Studio Master, Official Digital Download

Berman studierte am Moskauer Konservatorium bei Lew Oborin und erhielt 1971 den Mastergrad in den Fächern Cembalo und Klavier.
Inna Galatenko, Oleg Bezborodko - Valentin Silvestrov - Works (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]

Inna Galatenko, Oleg Bezborodko - Valentin Silvestrov - Works (2020) [Official Digital Download 24/96]
FLAC (tracks) 24-bit/96 kHz | Front Cover | Time - 01:13:02 minutes | 1,08 GB
Classical | Label: Naxos, Official Digital Download

Valentin Silvestrov’s elusive post-modern style is rich in nostalgia for the lost music of a barely remembered past filled with beauty and spiritual aspiration.