Sergey Yakovenko, Ilya Scheps - Silvestrov: Silent Songs (2004)
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 570 MB | 01:59:13
Genre: Classical | Label: ECM New Series
WEB | FLAC (tracks) - 570 MB | 01:59:13
Genre: Classical | Label: ECM New Series
Following the chamber music album “leggiero, pesante”, the orchestral “Metamusik/Postludium”, and the “Requiem for Larissa”, ECM New Series is pleased to present a most remarkable recording of Valentin Silvestrov’s “Stille Lieder”, a song cycle of great importance in the development and perception of the Ukrainian composer’s work, in a double album that also includes the premiere recording of his “Four Songs after Osip Mandelstam”.“We may feel we have always known these songs,” writes Paul Griffiths in the liner notes to the “Silent Songs”, “and in a sense we have.