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Valentin SILVESTROV (b. 1937) Symphony for Violin and Orchestra ‘Widmung’ 1 Postludium for Piano and Orchestra 2 Janusz Wawrowski, Violin 1 • Jurgis Karnavičius, Piano 2 Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra Christopher Lyndon-Gee
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Valentin Silvestrov, Ukraine’s leading composer, currently lives in exile in Berlin. His life in the late-Soviet period was harsh and included expulsion from the Composers’ Union which led to his withdrawal from participation in public life. This album brings together the two superlative works of Silvestrov’s early maturity. Postludium for Piano and Orchestra is yearning and dissonant, embodying the atmosphere of a lament, but without nostalgia, cast in a style full of ambiguity and allusion. The Symphony for Violin and Orchestra ‘Widmung’ is another melancholy, mystic work, a homage to the human spirit and life-force, but also, through hard-won lyricism, to love, hope and renewal. Key Features: •
8.574413 Release Date: 10 May 2024
Valentin Silvestrov ’s Seventh Symphony is on 8.574123: ‘A demonstration-class recording and detailed notes by Christopher Lyndon-Gee complete a very appealing release’ ( Gramophone ). • His orchestral music on 8.573598 was praised by Fanfare : ‘These are beautiful, sensitive performances that make a strong impression even though they never raise their voices. Yablonsky gives these works the transparency of chamber music, and the Ukrainian musicians respond to the music’s tender requiems’. • Silvestrov’s Quintet is on an all-Ukrainian Piano Quintets disc on 8.579098. It won a Fanfare Want List accolade: ‘This is a terrific introduction to an unfamiliar corner of the chamber repertoire’ ( BBC Music Magazine ). • The Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra (LNSO) was established in 1940 by the composer, conductor and pianist Balys Dvarionas. The orchestra presents around 50 concerts annually in the Lithuanian National Philharmonic Hall and across Lithuania. It has also performed in some of the most prestigious international concert venues, such as the Musikverein Wien, the philharmonic halls of Cologne and Berlin, and the Barbican Centre in London.
Companion Titles – Christopher Lyndon-Gee and the Lithuanian National Symphony Orchestra
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Christopher Lyndon-Gee and Valentin Silvestrov
Click to listen to I. Allegro moderato con moto – Moderato
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Robert FUCHS (1847–1927) Violin Sonatas Nos. 4–6
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Hyejin Chung, Violin Warren Lee, Piano
Eminent composer and revered teacher, Robert Fuchs, was an established part of Vienna’s musical landscape. His six violin sonatas fuse lyricism with conversational ease and chromatic harmonies with folk- derived melodies. This second volume of the complete set (Volume 1 is on 8.574213) charts a decade’s worth of composition, from 1905 to 1915. No. 4 in E major is hymn-like, while No. 5 in A major is playful and deeply lyrical. His final violin sonata No. 6 in G minor , is sombre with a nervous energy reflective of the time of its composition, though still, as always, exuding Brahmsian richness and beauty. Key Features: •
This volume completes the recording of all of Robert Fuchs’s six sonatas. Gramophone commented on the previous volume (8.574213) that ‘the attentiveness of their music- making well served by the admirably lucid sound. Qualities, indeed, that will doubtless be equally in evidence on the follow-up release of Fuchs’s subsequent three sonatas’. • Violinist Hyejin Chung , together with pianist Warren Lee , recorded the Schubert Violin Sonatas on 8.573579 about which audiotechnique wrote: ‘Hyejin Chung and Warren Lee… are a perfect match… Recording sound is spacious … One can easily imagine being immersed in the music’.
8.574547 Release Date: 10 May 2024
Companion Titles – Recordings featuring Hyejin Chung and Warren Lee
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Click to listen to Violin Sonata No. 4 in E major, Op. 77: I. Allegro vivace
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