Description
Valentin Silvestrov – Silent Songs / ECM New Series 2x Audio CD 2004 / ECM 1898/99
UPC 602498214244
Valentyn Vasylyovych Sylvestrov (Ukrainian: Валенти́н Васи́льович Сильве́стров; born 30 September 1937) is a Ukrainian composer and pianist, who plays and writes contemporary classical music.
| Label: | ECM New Series – ECM 1898/99 |
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| Format: |
2 x CD, Album
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| Country: | Germany |
| Released: |
2004 |
| Genre: | Classical |
| Style: | Contemporary |
Tracklist:
| Silent Songs | |||
| I. Five Songs After Poems By Yevgeny Baratynsky, John Keats, Alexander Pushkin And Taras Shevchenko | |||
| 1-1 | Song Can Tend The Ailing Spirit (Baratynsky) | 3:25 | |
| 1-2 | There Were Some Storms And Blizzards (Baratynsky) | 3:36 | |
| 1-3 | La Belle Dame Sans Merci (Keats) | 6:59 | |
| 1-4 | O Melancholy Time (Pushkin) | 3:09 | |
| 1-5 | Farewell, O World, O Earth (Shevchenko) | 5:03 | |
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II. Eleven Songs After Poems By Alexander Pushkin, Osip Mandelstam, Mikhail Lermontov, Fyodor Tyutchev, Perce Bysshe Shelley And Sergei Yesenin |
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| 1-6 | What Meaning Has My Name For You? (Pushkin) | 2:31 | |
| 1-7 | I Will Tell You With Unswerving Frankness (Mandelstam) | 3:36 | |
| 1-8 | I'm Drinking To Mary (Pushkin) | 4:23 | |
| 1-9 | Winter Journey (Pushkin) | 5:21 | |
| 1-10 | White, A Solitary Sail (Lermontov) | 4:20 | |
| 1-11 | I Met You (Tyutchev) | 6:06 | |
| 1-12 | The Isle (Shelley) | 3:52 | |
| 2-1 | Something Tender, Blue, Unspoken (Yesenin) | 5:51 | |
| 2-2 | Autumn Song (Yesenin) | 4:25 | |
| 2-3 | Swamps And Marshes (Yesenin) | 4:52 | |
| 2-4 | Winter Evening (Pushkin) | 6:00 | |
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III. Three Songs After Poems By Mikhail Lermontov |
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| 2-5 | When The Cornfield, Yellowing, Stirs | 4:31 | |
| 2-6 | I Set Out On The Road Alone | 5:31 | |
| 2-7 | Mountain Summits | 4:51 | |
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IV. Five Songs After Poems By Alexander Pushkin, Fyodor Tyutchev, Osip Mandelstam And Vasily Zhukovsky |
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| 2-8 | Elegy. Verses Composed At Night, At A Time Of Insomnia (Pushkin) | 3:38 | |
| 2-9 | Choral. A Vengeful God (Tyutchev) | 2:10 | |
| 2-10 | Meditation. It's Time, My Friend, It's Time! (Pushkin) | 4:30 | |
| 2-11 | Ode. Schubert On Water (Mandelstam) | 3:52 | |
| 2-12 | Postludium. Those Sweet Companions (Zhukovsky) | 3:18 | |
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Four Songs After Osip Mandelstam |
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| 2-13 | My Lashes Are Pricking | 4:28 | |
| 2-14 | I Don't Know When | 1:38 | |
| 2-15 | For The Thunderous Grandeur Of Ages To Come | 3:25 | |
| 2-16 | The Oaks Drink From A Cold Vessel | 3:45 |
- Artwork – Sascha Kleis
- Baritone Vocals – Sergey Yakovenko
- Engineer – Piotr Kondrashin
- Photography By – Vladimir Mishukov
- Piano – Ilya Scheps (tracks: 1-1 to 2-12), Valentin Silvestrov (tracks: 2-13 to 2-16)
- Producer – Manfred Eicher
