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Composer:
Valentin Silvestrov

Artist(s):
Ukraine National Choir

Conductor:
Vladimir Sirenko

Background: Ukrainian Valentin Silvestrov is acknowledged by his fellow composers as an artist of unique expressive power, creating at the highest level. The late Alfred Schnittke once said that 'Silvestrov is the greatest composer of our generation', a sentiment recently echoed by Arvo Part: 'Silvestrov is one of the greatest composers of our time'. This is the composer's most deeply personal work, the Requiem for Larissa, written in memory of his wife who died suddenly in 1996.

Silvestrov follows the requiem tradition of setting the Latin Mass for the Dead, but uses the text only in shards and fragments, conveying an incoherent, shocked grief. By the fourth movement there is a hint of consolation as the composer sets words by 19th century Ukrainian national poet Taras Schevchenko… and the music, having worked through the deepest, darkest emotions, concludes in a spirit of hopefulness.

CATALOGUE NR: 4721122
RECORD LABEL: ECM New Series
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: including VAT £ 12.65
RELEASE DATE: 05-Apr-2004

COMPOSER: Valentin Silvestrov
TITLE: Requiem for Larissa
ORCHESTRA: Ukraine National Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Vladimir Sirenko
ARTISTS: Ukraine National Choir      

- Jul-2004 5 star BBC Music Mag.

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