Juri Butsko: Diary of a Madman, Lacrimosa, The Canon to the Menacing Angel, the Commander and Guardian

Release Date: 2nd Nov 2018
Catalogue No: MELCD1002556
Label: Melodiya
Length: 2 hours 9 minutes

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Butsko: Diary of a Madman

Work length1:07:41

Sergey Yakovenko
Novosibirsk Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Moscow Conservatory Choir
Arnold Kats

Diary of a Madman: Prologue "Zapiski sumasshedshego"

Track length2:35

No. 1 "S segodnyashnego dnya sluchilos"

Track length6:16

No. 2 "Nash direktor dolgno byt ochen, ochen, ochen umnyy chelovek"

Track length4:27

No. 3 "Ech, hotel by zaglyanyt tuda"

Track length3:03

No. 4 "Segodnya byl v teatre"

Track length3:13

No. 5 "Nas vzbesil nachalnik otdeleniya"

Track length4:01

No. 6 "Pochemu ya - titulyarnyy sovetnik"

Track length6:01

No. 7 "Vtoroy akt opery"

Track length6:35

No. 8 "Segodnyasniy den - est den torzhestva velichayshego"

Track length6:32

No. 9 "O, ya ponyal, ya ponyal!"

Track length5:32

No. 10 "Itak, ya v Ispanii"

Track length6:34

No. 11, Final "Net, ya ne imeyu bolshe sil terpet"

Track length12:52

Butsko: Lacrimosa for String Orchestra

Work length14:46

Moscow Conservatory Chamber Orchestra, Moscow Conservatory Choir
Gennady Cherkasov

Butsko: The Canon to the Menacing Angel, the Commander and Guardian

Work length46:50

Anton Zarayev, Sergei Spiridonov
Moscow Conservatory Choir, Moscow Conservatory Chamber Orchestra, Novosibirsk Philharmonic Orchestra
Stanislav Kalinin

No. 1. The Eve

Track length4:44

No. 2. Exclamation

Track length1:27

No. 3. Glory

Track length5:36

No. 4. Don’t Leave Me

Track length4:49

No. 5 When Time Comes

Track length11:39

No. 6 Until You Return to the Ground

Track length9:00

No. 7 Of Heavenly King

Track length4:25

No. 8 Conclusion

Track length2:51

No. 9 Amen

Track length2:19

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Firma Melodiya presents a set of music by Russian composer Yuri Butsko dedicated to the composer’s 80th anniversary. His music is difficult to ascribe to a certain style and school. Being neither government-favored nor dissident, without cashing in on “socialist realism”, he never flirted with avant-garde. Yuiri Butsko showed his worth in different genres – opera, symphony, choral and chamber music. This set features works reflecting the diversity of the composer’s palette and simultaneously the evolution of his artistic way. The opera Diary of a Madman (1964), one of Butsko’s early works, is still among his most popular ones. When he still was a sophomore student of the conservatory, he managed to feel the tragic eccentricity of Gogol’s text so keenly that his mono-opera, which was sharply criticized by the establishment when it saw light of the day, became a classic of Soviet art during the composer’s lifetime. Lacrimosa for string orchestra is the third movement of Chamber Symphony No. 3 (1982). It was subtitled “Holy Rhyme” and secretly dedicated to the Lykovs, an extraordinary family of reclusive Old Believers who were found in the 1970s by an expedition in Altai. The story of the Lykovs stunned the composer. The Canon to the Menacing Angel, the Commander and Guardian, an oratorio based on the texts of Ivan the Terrible for chorus, soloists and instrumental ensemble, is one of the composer’s last works (2009). Butsko set an original Old Russian text about the cruel tsar’s repentance to music. Without citing any Znamenny chants, the composer musically reexamines this deeply emotional text. Yuri Butsko’s works are performed by the musicians who were the composer’s close associates for many years – singer Sergei Yakovenko and the symphony orchestra of the Novosibirsk Philharmonic Society led by Arnold Katz, the chamber orchestra of the Moscow Conservatory conducted by Gennady Cherkasov and the choir of students of the Moscow Conservatory led by Stanislav Kalinin.

Juri Butsko: Diary of a Madman, Lacrimosa, The Canon to the Menacing Angel, the Commander and Guardian

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