Cat No:
4811259
Release Date: 20 April 2018
Label: ECM Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 028948112593
Composer/Series: Lukomoriye
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Description
The fourth ECM New Series album from the St Petersburg-based composer Alexander Knaifel (born 1943 in Tashkent) may be his most wide-ranging to date, voyaging from the sacred to the secular and back again via several inspired detours.
It includes two Prayers to the Holy Spirit, movingly performed by the Lege Artis Choir. The composer's wife, Tatiana Melentieva sings Bliss, based on Alexander Pushkin's poem, and the great Russian poet is cross-referenced with St Ephraim the Syrian in O Lord of All My Life (A Poem and a Prayer) sung by Piotr Migunov.
Oleg Malov, who accompanies both singers, is called upon to internalize texts in four further solo piano pieces. A mad tea party lives up to its title, with a surreal Wonderland spirit. This Child (after the Gospel of St Luke), A Confession and title piece Lukomoriye (both after Pushkin) are luminously quiet, and quietly magical.
Knaifel's music, described by the Frankfurter Rundschau as "one of the most important revelations of recent years", belongs to that circle of near-contemporaries and associates from the former Soviet lands which includes Arvo Pärt, Giya Kancheli, Tigran Mansurian, Valentin Silvestrov and Sofia Gubaidulina. But, although critics have found echoes of Pärt, Tavener and Górecki in Knaifel's quest for musical beauty, he has an idiom that is entirely his own, with its own expressive power.
Personnel: Oleg Malov (piano), Tatiana Melentieva (soprano), Piotr Migunov (bass), Lege Artis Choir, Boris Abalian (conductor) -
Tracklisting
- 1. Knaifel - O Comforter (Prayer to the Holy Spirit)
- 2. A mad tea-party (Royal version)
- 3. Bliss
- 4. This Child
- 5. Confession
- 6. O Lord of all my life
- 7. O Heavenly King (Prayer to the Holy Spirit)
- 8. Lukomoriye (of a magic piano)
Disc 1
Side 1
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