1. how you come across to it:
The first time I hear it is preparing for the RTHK TV score-cuing. That's a late discovery for anybody serious in music. That's me. I've repeated the music in office and that was annoying to the level that I got complain from my colleagues. They are serious music lovers and are bothered by that high-tension music and brutally repeating motif.
2. why this piece?
I can't stand but to play this again when I was trying to review another cello item. This is irrepressible.
3. (and...)
Maybe except Han-na and Rostropovich, all others could be trashed.
4.1.09
Silvestrov: Silent Songs
1. how you come across to it:
The CD has been with me at the moment once it is available on the market. But sometime in 2007 when I attempted to survey all the Silvestrov pieces, I dig up my still mint copy of it and listened the entire song cycle. I was stunned, and gradually I switched off all the lights to listen to it again. Eventually in 2008 I listened to the entire cycle a few times, and on 1 Jan 2009 I picked it up again, and it was my first piece that I listened in 2009.
2. why this piece?
Almost the entire set require the Baritone soloist sung in sotto voce, and pianist una corda. The whole thing comes like a noctural whisper from a chain of laments. Without any loud passages, one felt totally alone and with one's spirit immensed in this 2 hour song cycle.
3. (and...)
This little film used Song No. 5 of the cycle - "Farewell, o world, o earth". May mail you lyrics if interested.
The CD has been with me at the moment once it is available on the market. But sometime in 2007 when I attempted to survey all the Silvestrov pieces, I dig up my still mint copy of it and listened the entire song cycle. I was stunned, and gradually I switched off all the lights to listen to it again. Eventually in 2008 I listened to the entire cycle a few times, and on 1 Jan 2009 I picked it up again, and it was my first piece that I listened in 2009.
2. why this piece?
Almost the entire set require the Baritone soloist sung in sotto voce, and pianist una corda. The whole thing comes like a noctural whisper from a chain of laments. Without any loud passages, one felt totally alone and with one's spirit immensed in this 2 hour song cycle.
3. (and...)
This little film used Song No. 5 of the cycle - "Farewell, o world, o earth". May mail you lyrics if interested.
2.1.09
Schnittke: String Trio
1. how you come across to it:
Actually this is the original version of what Bashmet later arranged as Trio Sonata for strings.
2. why this piece?
Strangely, what I have been listening since 2009 are all in minor keys. Just acquired an out-of-print recording played by Kremer-Bashmet-Rostropovich trio which I longed for. Immensely intense playing. No matter in the original chamber form or version for strings, both are highly recommended. Schnittke makes all densely dissonant chords sound like a sharp knife piercing on salted skin. Tonal passages no longer bring resolution, but just prelude to another storm of dissonances. The ending is no ending.
3. (and...)
Once again, DO NOT listen to this when one is extremely pressed, or depressed.
Actually this is the original version of what Bashmet later arranged as Trio Sonata for strings.
2. why this piece?
Strangely, what I have been listening since 2009 are all in minor keys. Just acquired an out-of-print recording played by Kremer-Bashmet-Rostropovich trio which I longed for. Immensely intense playing. No matter in the original chamber form or version for strings, both are highly recommended. Schnittke makes all densely dissonant chords sound like a sharp knife piercing on salted skin. Tonal passages no longer bring resolution, but just prelude to another storm of dissonances. The ending is no ending.
3. (and...)
Once again, DO NOT listen to this when one is extremely pressed, or depressed.
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