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For mezzo-soprano, organ, string quartet and percussion.
Performed by: State Ippolitov-Ivanov Music Institute, Maria Kondrashkova (mezzo-soprano), Garri Eprikyan (organ), Alexandr Leyer (percussion). Conducted by Vyacheslav Valeev.
Credo is composed on the request of the India delegation in Moscow. The initial concept was the synthesis of traditional Indian and European cultures. But this time I was more interested in the Catholicism and it’s interaction with Orthodox culture and the Islam. And this eternal problem that is always in the focus of my works is also represented here inCredo…
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Author: A. Kouznetsov Genre: acoustics, chamber ensemble, organ, vocal
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Metamorphoses is a composition for 12 performers which lasts 11 minutes.
Concept
12 stages of transformation of a sound «d»: space, pitch, rhythm, spectrum, number, harmony, polystructures, mutation, matter, form, time, energy.
In the basis of the piece there is a mathematical proportion 3:1:2:1:3. The musical intonation system leans on this proportion and is not changed during the piece. The only thing that changes is an aspect angle of how this intonation system is being showed, thus giving us full impression of the main idea. From the timbre point of view the piece presents a logic of development several timbre lines. This development organizes a special music space.
Instruments
Flute, clarinet B, trumpet B, horn F, trombone, 2 percussions, 2 violins, viola, cello and double bass.
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Author: A. Mikhailova Genre: acoustics, chamber ensemble
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Concerto for cello and five wind instruments. Performed by eNsemble (ProArte Institute, final round of Step to the left competition. February 8, 2008).
Adagio molto is based on a one-part instrumental concerto’s framework that includes two themes, virtuosic cadenza and the opposition of a solo instrument and the ensemble. Title is related to quite low main tempo, but also emphasizes lyric aspect of composition, which is hidden and broken by outward hardness of material and “some deliberately provocative musical gestures”.
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Author: G. Dorokhov Genre: acoustics, chamber ensemble
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Performed by Alex Kruglov on basset horn and Alex Nadzharov on live electronics. Recorded November 21, 2007 at Rachmaninov Hall of Moscow Conservatory
The main concept is an interaction of a musician that freely interprets the score and the electronic algorithmic part in Max/MSP making all sounds from recombining and processing the live sound source
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Author: A. Nadzharov Genre: electronics, live electronics, maxmsp, solo
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Electronic piece
“…a fast change of alternating images that remain a part of a single process while they appear and disappear. Piano part is dominating above that flow, emerging other sounds and images and then gradually uniting in a single spot of sound, like in an impressionists’ paintings…”
Author: E. Sanicheva Genre: electronics
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