Valentin Silvestrov - To Thee We Sing - Sacred Choral Works

Valentin SILVESTROV (b.1937)

To Thee We Sing

Sacred Choral Works

Alleluia (2006)

From Liturgical Chants

Diptych

Two Sacred Chants

Two Sacred Songs

Two Christmas Lullabies

Ieva Ezeriete (soprano)

Agate Burkina (soprano)

Dace Srautmane (alto)

Karlis Rutentals (tenor)

Rudolfs Bertins (tenor)

Latvian Radio Choir

Sigvards Klava

Released: October 2015

 

"It has the effect of a healing balm and I cannot recommend it too highly for those who require restoration from life’s vicissitudes".

Gramophone Editor's Choise, October 2015

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Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov (b. 1937) is an important contemporary voice in vocal music. In this new release Silvestrov's hauntingly beautiful vocal works are performed by the Latvian Radio Choir under their director Sigvards Kļava.

During his artistic career Silvestrov has explored a number of musical styles and techniques, such as avant-guard, post-modernism, neo-classicism, dodecaphony, aleatoric writing and pointillism. The fall of the Soviet Union, however, allowed Silvestrov to eventually compose spiritual works, inspired and influenced by his love of the Russian Orthodox Church music which

Silvestrov imbues with his own unique sound and bursts of surprising harmonic moves. Silvestrov's compositions are invested with the composer's own unique personality, musical sensibility and sense of beauty.