SILVESTROV VALENTIN

(2-CD Set) SILENT SONGS
Following the chamber music album "leggiero, pesante", the orchestral "Metamusik/Postludium", and the "Requiem for Larissa", ECM New Series is pleased to present a most remarkable recording of Valentin Silvestrov's "Stille Lieder", a song cycle of great importance in the development and perception of the Ukrainian composer's work, in a double album that also includes the premiere recording of his "Four Songs after Osip Mandelstam"."We may feel we have always known these songs," writes Paul Griffiths in the liner notes to the "Silent Songs"...
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(CD) MISTERIOSO
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 e...
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(CD) SACRED SONGS
Since 2001, ECM has enthusiastically championed the art of Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov with recordings of his orchestral, chamber and vocal works - creations that stand as some of the most arresting and moving in contemporary music. This continues in Silvestrov's 75th birthday year with "Sacred Songs", the eighth album ECM has devoted wholly to the composer's music; it collects sets of songs, refrains, psalms and prayers composed from 2006 to 2008 that reflect the composer's late-blooming interest in writing for a cappella voice...
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(CD) SACRED WORKS
This album of sacred a-cappella works from recent years offers a most fascinating addition to the wide spectrum of music by Valentin Silvestrov on ECM New Series. Silvestrov's interest in the choir came compartively late in his career. "Being an individualist, I never imagined that I would be scoring choral works", he has said. It was partly due to conductor Mykola Hobdytsch persistent encouragement that Silvestrov decided to immerse himself more deeply into the choral world and to study old Russian litanies. Once he had started reading th...
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