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TRACKS
"Maze of Pleasures" (LP) by Maxim Shalyign feat. Viktoriia Vitrenko (voice/soprano) from his last album of electronic music, 2020.
Alla Zagaykevych "MISTO" (2017) on texts by Michaylo Semenko for voice and electronics. Live in Kyiv, 2018.
ALBUMS
forgotten word i wished to say
Solo piano works and the vocal cycle "Stufen" by the Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov, performed by pianist Alexei Lubimov and soprano Viktoriia Vitrenko, are featured on the album "Valentin Silvestrov: Forgotten Word I Wished to Say," released by Sony Classical in co-production with BR-KLASSIK.
Valentin Silvestrov is Ukraine’s most significant contemporary composer. Since 2022, he has lived in Berlin. At the age of 84, he was forced to leave his hometown of Kyiv due to the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. The album "Forgotten Word I Wished to Say" includes works composed between the 1970s and 2023. Alongside the vocal cycle "Stufen" and the piano cycle "Kitschmusik" from 2012, the album also features two pieces composed in his Berlin exile, now recorded for the first time. The multi-part "Kitschmusik" for solo piano references the great Romantics Schumann, Chopin, and Brahms, while the "Three Pieces" for solo piano (2012) are dedicated to Silvestrov's late wife, Larissa Bondarenko. In the piano cycle "Two Pieces" (Berlin, 2023), a harmless moment contrasts with a tragic lullaby. This work, filled with pain and nostalgia, seems to have been composed under the impression of the terrible events that have become everyday occurrences since the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Yet, in the end, one can hear a floating, transparent, bright sound that expresses hope for peace in the near future.
SCENES
György Kurtág, 93, is one of the great living composers of classical modernism. He developed his aphoristic style of succinct miniatures to full bloom through consistent abridgement and pointedness.
With previously unpublished works by Kurtág presented here for the first time, this new CD of 22 movements based on Georg Christoph Lichtenberg's Sudelbüchern, scored for soprano and double bass, is a true "aphorism discovery." Also based on a literary model are the Scenes from a Novel op. 19 after 15 poems by Rimma Dalos (soprano, violin, cymbal, double bass). The Seven Songs op. 22 (soprano, cymbal) and In Memory of a Winter Evening op. 8 (soprano, violin, cymbal) appear here for the first time in CD format.
This carefully assembled collection reveals the Hungarian master as one of the most personal artistic voices of our time.
The four internationally renowned soloists — here in the original charming formation of soprano, violin, cymbal and double bass — interpret some of György Kurtág's densest works.
MAZE OF PLEASURES
The album explores the theme of love in all of its manifestations: from tender contemplation of the beloved to wild passion bordering on aggression. The emotions range from seduction to mental insanity, from gentle love to lust, from the extremely quiet and slow to the unbearably painful and screaming loud.
- From the Other Side Beyond the Mirror
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Sexual
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Holy Drill
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Seduction
- Maze of Pleasures (feat. Viktoriia Vitrenko)