Valentin Silvestrov, Jenny Lin

Piano Works

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CD/ Track	Title	Duration
1.1	Nostalghia	04:30
1.2	Two pieces Benedictus	06:26
1.3	Two pieces Sanctus	09:32
1.4	Two Dialogues with an Epilogue Wedding Waltz	05:18
1.5	Two Dialogues with an Epilogue Postlodium	12:15
1.6	Two Dialogues with an Epilogue Morning Serenade	08:58
1.7	Three Postludes I	03:56
1.8	Three Postludes II	16:38
1.9	Three Postludes III	07:44
1.10	Three Pieces Bagatelle	03:47
1.11	Three Pieces Hymn 2001	05:54
1.12	Three Pieces Melody	02:34
1.13	Two Pieces Chopin Moments	04:34
1.14	Two Pieces Spring Moments	04:24
1.15	Three Waltzes Schoenberg	01:21
1.16	Three Waltzes Webern	00:55
1.17	Three Waltzes Berg	01:40
1.18	Sonata No. 1 I	11:46
1.19	Sonata No. 1 II	04:52
1.20	The Messenger - 1996	07:44

available

18,95 EUR

: SCM Hänssler
Art.-No.:: 098.229.000
: Compact Disc
: 12 S. Booklet
: May 2007
: *recommended retail price

The music of Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov is a unique and delicate tapestry of dramatic and emotional textures, that freely alludes to the entire history of music. "I do not write new music. My music is a response to and an echo of what already exists," Silvestrov has said. Beginning his creative career in the radical Soviet Avant-Garde, Silvestrov demonstrated an almost painful sensitivity to the intimacy that music can create between performer and listener. Silvestrov would later refute his modernist roots, saying “the most important lesson of the Avant-Garde is to be free of all conceived ideas, particularly those of the Avant-Garde” and began composing a series of works entitled “Postludium” that initiated the elegiac, poetic and highly personal relationship with silence which has come to characterize his most recent music. Haenssler Classic is proud to present pianist Jenny Lin in the World Premiere Recording of Silvestrov’s “Three Postludes”, a work composed especially for her.

“Jenny Lin, one of the finest classical pianists in New York (and that’s saying something… This disc is a must-own for Russian specialists and pianophiles, but offers plenty of pleasures for more casual music-lovers as well.”
- Steve Holtje (Review of “Preludes to a Revolution” Hänssler Classic CD 98.480)