Release Date: 02 September 2022
Label: Br Klassik - Full Price / BR Klassik
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 4035719003444
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: Valentin Silvestrov
Description
Valentin Silvestrov is probably the best-known Ukrainian composer, and his Requiem for Larissa", now released on CD by BR-KLASSIK, was written in response to the unexpected death in 1996 of his wife, the music and literature scholar Larissa Bondarenko. She had stood by his side from the very beginning of his artistic career. It was in 1999, shortly before the turn of the millennium, that Silvestrov was finally able to complete his Requiem. He did not set a drama of the Last Judgement to music, as Mozart, Berlioz or Verdi had done before him, but rather wrote a lament - in seemingly endless, world-forlorn repetitions. The composer stepped out of the present and into the past, commenting on his life with Larissa with memories of music that had inspired her, and with profound allusions, retrospections and epilogues of the most personal nature."
VONDUNG/ARMAN/BR CHOIR
Suthaus:Rysanek:Karajan
MACELARU/ARMAN/BRSO & CHOIR
BR CHOIR/AKAMUS/ARMAN
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
CHOR DES BR/DIJKSTRA
Udo Wachtveitl, Bernhard Schir, Gert Heidenreich
Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Simon Rattle
