Iryna Starodub, Kiev Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Dmitry Yablonsky – Valentin Silvestrov: Moments of Memory II (2017)
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Ukranian composer Valentin Silvestrov has said that I do not write new music. My music is a response to and an echo of what already exists. This is particularly pertinent to works such as the Two Dialogues with Postscript that engage hauntingly with Schubert and Wagner, and the evocative Moments of Memory II which alludes to Chopin and yearns for an unreachable past. Music is still song, even if one cannot literally sing it, says Silvestrov.
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Bogdana Pivnenko, Taras Yaropud, Kateryna Suprun, Yurii Pogoretskyi, Iryna Starodub – Lyatoshynsky, Poleva & Silvestrov: Piano Quintets (2021)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:17:36 minutes | 1,28 GB | Genre: Classical
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The early 20th century saw the Ukrainian region suffer considerable political instability and oppression. Following the long and bitterly fought war of independence (1917 to 1921), the Soviet government introduced a new policy of korenizatsiya (‘putting down roots’) which allowed the Soviet republics much greater freedom. This resulted in a vibrant yet short-lived cultural renaissance, and the emergence of a new generation of artists, writers, and musicians who drew variously on Eastern and Western models while looking to their national heritage.
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