Valentin Silvestrov: Requiem Für Larissa

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a challenge for the singers, met magnificently by the soloists and choir... A remarkable piece, handled with delicacy and great control. — Choir & Organ, December 2022 More…

Release Date: 2nd Sep 2022
Catalogue No: 900344
Label: BR Klassik
Length: 60 minutes

International Classical Music Awards

2023

Nominated - Contemporary Music

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Sylvestrov: Requiem for Larissa

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Priska Eser, Jutta Neumann, Andreas Hirtreiter, Wolfgang Klose, Michael Mantaj
Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Munich Radio Orchestra
Andres Mustonen

I. Requiem aeternam. Largo - Allegro vivace (Live)

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II. Tuba mirum. Adagio - Moderato - Allegro - Andantino (Live)

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III. Lacrimosa dies illa. Largo - Allegro moderato (Live)

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IV. Prochai svite. Largo (Live)

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V. Agnus Dei. Andante - Moderato (Live)

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VI. Requiem aeternam. Largo (Live)

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VII. Requiem aeternam. Allegro moderato - Andantino (Live)

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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.

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December 2022

a challenge for the singers, met magnificently by the soloists and choir... A remarkable piece, handled with delicacy and great control.

November 2022

One is reeled in like a fish on a line from the opening notes; the Munich players and singers under Mustonen spin from them the endless web of Silvestrov’s melody...This is a great work in a great recording.

December 2022

The performance by the Chorus of Bavarian Radio and the Munich Radio Orchestra under Andres Mustonen is magnificent... I can recommend this new issue to those who are interested in modern music from Eastern Europe.

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