Valentin Silvestrov: Maidan
Kyiv Chamber Choir & Mykola Hobdych
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Release Date: 30 September 2022
Label: ECM New Series
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 028948580842
Kyiv Chamber Choir & Mykola Hobdych
Release Date: 30 September 2022
Label: ECM New Series
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 028948580842
Description
With Maidan, Valentin Silvestrov continues his longstanding association with ECM and this time presents a programme of choir music that is as timely as it is dear to the Ukrainian composer's heart, the album is released as Silvestrov turns 85.
Like the albums Sacred Songs and Sacred Works, Maidan embraces Silvestrov's composing for vocal ensemble and captures the Kyiv Chamber Choir under Mykola Hobdych in an impassioned performance at the St. Michael's Cathedral in Kyiv from 2016. Silvestrov, who in spring 2022 had to leave his Kyiv home of over half a century, composed "Maidan 2014", a 'cycle of cycles', in the wake of the 'Euromaidan' - the wave of demonstrations that hit Ukraine in 2014. Replete with liturgical passages and verses by Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchencko, Maidan offers a wealth of melodies with both hymnal and chant-like structures.
In the CD's liner text, Silvestrov points out how "it's no accident that the symbolic crown and ending of the "Maidan 2014" cycle is a quiet lullaby. For I'm neither able nor willing to duplicate the noise of this terrible war. Instead, I want to show how fragile our civilisation is. I try, with my music, to safeguard and preserve a day of peace.".
Kyiv Chamber Choir
Mykola Hobdych: conductor
Tracklisting
Anna Gourari, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana & Markus Poschner
Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica & Vida Mikneviciute
Arvo Part
Thomas Larcher
John Holloway Ensemble
Heinz Holliger & Anton Kernjak
Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Tallinn Chamber Orchestra & Tonu Kaljuste
Karlheinz Stockhausen Michaels Reise
Oslo Kammerkor, Hakon Daniel Nystedt
Hans-Christoph Rademann, NDR Chor Hamburg
Chorwerk Ruhr, Florian Helgath
BachWerkVokal, Gordon Safari
Dionysos Now!
Soloists; Les Traversees Baroques; Meyer
The Gesualdo Six / Owain Park
La Compagnia del Madrigale