Sergey Yakovenko & Ilya Scheps
Release Date: 19 December 2008
Label: ECM New Series
Packaging Type: Brilliant Case (Jewel Case size, Holds 2 CDs)
No of Units: 2
Barcode: 602498214244
Genres: Classical
Description
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', "and in a sense we have. The first hearing will not seem the first, though we will remember it for that slow shock of familiarity, how it awakens memories...Yet the songs are new - startlingly new for 1974-77, when composers in the Soviet Union were stretching boundaries...Just when composers could at last make big personal statement in public, here was one letting the past express itself, in the private dimensions of whispered song".
Recorded 1986, in Moscow
Personnel: Sergey Yakovenko (baritone), Ilya Scheps (piano), Valentin Silvestrov (piano)
Tracklisting
Delian Quartett
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
Roberta Invernizzi, Accademia Strumentale Italiana, Alberto Rasi
Philippe Thuriot
Paul Guinery
Pietro Battistoni, Rosso Verona Baroque Ensemble
Sarah Hennies
Donna McKevitt
Eric Guo, Oh! Orchestra, Vaclav Luks
Arthur Rubinstein (piano), Lodz Philharmonic Orchestra, Henryk Czyz
