(CD) MISTERIOSO
ALEXEI LUBIMOV, ALEXANDER TROSTIANSKY, KIRILL RYBAKOV
SILVESTROV VALENTIN, PART ARVO, USTVOLSKAYA GALINAΚωδ. Πολιτείας: 1639-0316
Παρουσίαση
Alexei Lubimov, heir to the great Russian piano tradition, has joined forces with two outstanding young musicians from his native country. "The thing that connects us is our strong interest in contemporary music", he explains. Even as a young man Lubimov consistently championed the cause of modern composers, despite repressive measures from the Soviet regime. "Playing with younger colleagues is becoming more and more important to me. Kyrill Rybakov and Alexander Trostiansky already combine keen musical intuition with immense professional expertise. And as a performer, my practical encounter with the musical outlook of a completely different generation has been even more valuable to me. It has worked like a new energy source."Rybakov and Lubimov had met while the clarinettist was studying in Paris. Shortly thereafter all three musicians got together for the first time in the chamber music circles of cellist Alexander Rudin in Moscow. Misterioso is their debut recording as a trio. Although they see themselves more as a union of soloists than a permanent ensemble, the three men regularly give recitals together. Their focus on contemporary repertoire seemed only logical for it was not until Stravinsky's original arrangement of L'histoire du soldat and Bart?k's Contrasts that the trio format of clarinet, violin and piano became established. Galina Ustvolskaya's Trio, composed in 1949 (her former teacher Dmitri Shostakovich quoted its final movement in several of his own works), is one of the early masterpieces for this combination of instruments.
All the works on our album were studied with their respective composers or performed in their presence. "Galina Ustvolskaya doesn't rehearse with performers at all any more," Lubimov points out. "She lives a very secluded life. But in June 2004 we played the Trio and the Violin Sonata in St. Petersburg at a festive concert for her 85th birthday." A few years ago clarinettist Rybakov and pianist Lubimov played the violin version of Arvo Part's Spiegel im Spiegel to the composer in Berlin. Part was so taken with it that he decided to officially release a version for clarinet. "He gave us many valuable tips for our performance and worked very thoroughly on our agogics, colour and phrasing." In contrast, Lubimov has been working very closely with the Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov for years. The three musicians have played the works on this album in Silvestrov's presence in the course of several portrait recitals, including one at the Basle Culturescapes Festival, where Silvestrov was composer-in-residence in 2004.
Like Messe Noire, Lubimov's programme of masterpieces of 20th-century Russian piano music, released last year by ECM, the repertoire of Misterioso is intentionally rich in contrasts. The pieces date from a period covering almost 50 years. Here three uncompromising nonconformists representing radically individualist stances and world-views raise their voices, each in a different way, to speak of what Lubimov calls "existential layers of spiritual life". Part's Spiegel im Spiegel functions as a line of demarcation, equally intent on separation and rapprochement, between the fundamentally antithetical pairs of works by Silvestrov and Ustvolskaya. Not only does this illustrate the broad range of Soviet and post-Soviet music, it also reveals the great wealth in Silvestrov's and Ustvolskaya's compositional styles, which cannot be reduced to a common denominator.
The CD box contains a 32-page illustrated booklet with an essay by Jurg Stenzl in German and English.
Περιεχόμενα
VALENTIN SILVESTROVPost scriptum - Sonata for violin and piano
1. I Largo - Allegro
2. II Andantino
3. III Allegro vivace, con moto
4. Misterioso - for clarinet solo (with piano)
ARVO PART
5. Spiegel Im Spiegel - Version for clarinet and piano
GALINA USTVOLSKAYA
Trio - For Clarinet, Violin And Piano
6. I Espressivo
7. II Dolce
8. III Energico
9. Sonate fur Violine und Klavier
Alexei Lubimov: piano
Alexander Trostiansky: violin
Kirill Rybakov: clarinet
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