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New York, New York, 158 Bleecker Street
PROGRAM:
Silvestrov: Nostalghia, The Messenger, Postludes, Waltzes, Piano Sonata No. 1 Stravinsky: Piano Sonata Scriabin: Piano Sonata No. 4 “When I first heard Silvestrov’s music, I was convinced it came from another world.” —Jenny Lin Silvestrov, once described by Arvo Pärt in a New Yorker interview as “one of the greatest composers of our time”, was born in 1937 in Kiev, a period of intense terror in Russian history. Malcolm MacDonald wrote that the “Russian sense of lamentation…reaches in Silvestrov a new expressive stage: he seems to compose, not the lament itself, but the lingering memory of it, the mood of sadness that it leaves behind.” Jenny Lin presents a solo program with some of Silvestrov’s most intimate piano works, culminating with his Piano Sonata No. 1, alongside the Sonatas of Stravinsky and Scriabin. “Valentin Silvestrov has created a cosmos unlike any other, with its own themes, characters and, above all, a very personal manner of thought, utterance and writing.”—Alexis Lubimov as part of The LPR (New)Classical Series standing seated |
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