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Janusz Wawrowski, Jurgis Karnavičius, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Lyndon-Gee – Valentin Silvestrov: Widmung & Postludium for Piano & Orchestra (2024)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:03:06 minutes | 1,04 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos
Valentin Silvestrov, Ukraine’s leading composer, currently lives in exile in Berlin. His life in the late-Soviet period was harsh and included expulsion from the Composers’ Union which led to his withdrawal from participation in public life. This album brings together the two superlative works of Silvestrov’s early maturity. Postludium for Piano and Orchestra is yearning and dissonant, embodying the atmosphere of a lament, but without nostalgia, cast in a style full of ambiguity and allusion. The Symphony for Violin and Orchestra ‘Widmung’ is another melancholy, mystic work, a homage to the human spirit and life-force, but also, through hard-won lyricism, to love, hope and renewal.
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Inna Galatenko, Oleg Bezborodko, Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra & Christopher Lyndon-Gee – Valentin Silvestrov: Works (2020)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:13:02 minutes | 1,08 GB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Naxos
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. Ode to a Nightingale is a masterly response to Keats’ unsentimental reflection on human mortality, contrasting with the beauty and affecting intimacy of the Cantata No. 4 and the resonant emotional world of its companion piece, the Concertino. Starkness set against elegiac melancholy are the shared features of Moments of Poetry and Music and the Seventh Symphony – an embodiment of Silvestrov’s dual musical nature of anguish and tenderness. Valentine Silvestrov’s music has become widely acclaimed and appreciated through numerous recordings, and he has been dubbed ‘one of the greatest composers of our time’ by the likes of Alfred Schnittke and Arvo Part. Naxos and Grand Piano have added to his catalogue with significant releases and ‘beautiful, sensitive performances that make a strong impression even though they never raise their voices.’ (Fanfare)
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Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic Orchestra, Christopher Lyndon Gee, Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, Mikel Toms – Douglas Knehans: Concertos (2015)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 01:02:10 minutes | 581 MB | Genre: Classical
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Ablaze Records
Concertos is a disc that I and all of the artists featured on it have been working on for years. Initial recording took place in 2011 in Zlin, Czech Republic with the Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic. Some years separted these recordings and the more recent ones from Brno with the superb Brno Philharmonic orchestra and Mikel Toms.
The works on this disc span a period of about eight years of my creative life and move between dramatic and assertive music to music marked by fragility, tenderness and emotion. The performances are uniformly excellent and the audio quality is something about which we are proud!
For your consideration—please do think of this terrific disc when nominating season comes around!!
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