Kiev

The Italian operatic repertoire offers some of the most passionate and much-loved music in the classical canon. In this outstanding collection, Azer Zada has selected music of moving intensity, dramatic power and spiritual resolve in works by Donizetti, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Puccini and Verdi. Favourite tenor arias such as Nessun dorma!, Una furtiva lagrima, Recondita armonia and E lucevan le stelle are included, as well as three essential intermezzi by Mascagni.

The Book of Genesis tells us that in the beginning was the Word and that the Word was sound. But what if it was music? What if God, in contemplating the creation of Creation, sang being into being? If so, it might have sounded something like the Sacred Songs of Valentin Silvestrov. In this seventh ECM album devoted to the Ukrainian composer’s music, we thusly encounter a sense of space unique to the Russian liturgy: the more the voices unify in movement, the more they lift from one another like temporary tattoos, leaving behind mirror images that wash away with baptism into infinite oneness with the Holy Spirit. Sin as sun. Firmament as fundament.

Un témoignage de première main sur la vie quotidienne des Ukrainiens depuis le début de l'invasion russe déclenchée le 24 février 2022. L'écrivaine et photographe explique comment les habitants de Kiev, dont sa famille fait partie, vivent sous les bombes, dans une ville assiégée. Elle raconte le silence des rues éventrées, la solitude dans les bunkers, la sidération mais aussi l'espoir qui renaît. …

« Un tatouage effacé suffit-il pour échapper au passé ? »
En 2021, en Europe, une série de cyberattaques cible des laboratoires de biologie médicale, sous le nom de « Grand renouveau ».
Alors que le Service du Maintien de l’Ordre (S.M.O) instaure la terreur et que ses agents traquent les contrevenants aux nouvelles lois sanitaires, les disparitions mystérieuses se multiplient. …

« Un tatouage effacé suffit-il pour échapper au passé ? »
En 2021, en Europe, une série de cyberattaques cible des laboratoires de biologie médicale, sous le nom de « Grand renouveau ».
Alors que le Service du Maintien de l’Ordre (S.M.O) instaure la terreur et que ses agents traquent les contrevenants aux nouvelles lois sanitaires, les disparitions mystérieuses se multiplient. …

Founded by Anatoly Grindenko in the Holy Trinity Sergius Lavra monastery, near Moscow, the Moscow Russian Patriarchate Choir was created in 1980. Following tradition, it is composed of 12 to 13 members. The singers were all eminent researchers, passionate about the repertoire of compositions for male voices, from the religious music of the Orthodox Church to the lay songs of the final years of the Soviet regime. At the time, the choir spent several years deciphering ancient manuscripts and giving representations of works that had until then been in the shadows, sometimes for centuries. With the collapse of the USSR, the choir was able to open up to the world and perform in Europe and America, exposing its music to a much larger public.

Ukranian composer Valentin Silvestrov has said that I do not write new music. My music is a response to and an echo of what already exists. This is particularly pertinent to works such as the Two Dialogues with Postscript that engage hauntingly with Schubert and Wagner, and the evocative Moments of Memory II which alludes to Chopin and yearns for an unreachable past. Music is still song, even if one cannot literally sing it, says Silvestrov.