Georgi Sviridov(1915-98)

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vandermolen

Quote from: Roy Bland on January 24, 2023, 07:56:41 PMOn February 13, 2023, the program "Georgy Sviridov and sacred music of the 20th century" will be performed in the Small Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic.


Sviridov's tour in Kursk



https://riakursk.ru/po-mestam-georgiya-sviridova-v-kurske/
I don't think that I'll be attending that one!
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foxandpeng

Canticles and Prayers. Outstanding.

I don't often appreciate choral religious music, so have to be in the right frame of mind. Composers like Sviridov, Vasks, Rautavaara, Kilar, and oddly, Penderecki are unusually gifted in my mind.

These Canticles and Prayers always seem to hit the right note.
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AnotherSpin

Kursk is not so far from the state borders of Ukraine. Russia regularly attacks from Kursk, not with Sviridov's opuses, but with bombs and missiles. I hope the response will be not just adequate, but far beyond the fears of the Kremlin führer.

Roy Bland


Unknown Romances by Sviridov to Blok's Verses Published
The "Musical Academy" magazine has published unknown romances by Georgy Sviridov to the words of Alexander Blok for the first time. Blok was the most important imaginary interlocutor of Georgy Sviridov: over sixty years of "co-creation" Sviridov wrote more than eighty songs and romances to his poems. This CD presents the world's first recording of romances from 1938, which marked the beginning of Sviridov's immersion in Blok's poetry.

Roy Bland


Mandryka

I have just discovered the extraordinary Pushkin's Garland

Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen

kyjo

Sviridov seems to be best-known for his vocal/choral works, but judging by his Piano Trio and Piano Quintet (both from 1945), his instrumental works deserve to be remembered as well:



Simply put, if you like Shostakovich's Piano Trio No. 2 and Piano Quintet, you're really going to enjoy this! One could accuse Sviridov as being a bit too derivative of DSCH at times, but his musical ideas are so strong that this didn't bother me. Sviridov really knows how to build momentum and write effective climaxes, and his writing for chamber forces is expert and virtuosic. The beautifully melancholic Romance from The Snow Storm (arr. for piano trio) serves as a nice encore, and the performances here do full justice to the music.
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff

Mandryka

Quote from: kyjo on February 11, 2025, 08:13:00 PMSviridov seems to be best-known for his vocal/choral works, but judging by his Piano Trio and Piano Quintet (both from 1945), his instrumental works deserve to be remembered as well:



Simply put, if you like Shostakovich's Piano Trio No. 2 and Piano Quintet, you're really going to enjoy this! One could accuse Sviridov as being a bit too derivative of DSCH at times, but his musical ideas are so strong that this didn't bother me. Sviridov really knows how to build momentum and write effective climaxes, and his writing for chamber forces is expert and virtuosic. The beautifully melancholic Romance from The Snow Storm (arr. for piano trio) serves as a nice encore, and the performances here do full justice to the music.

Actually I prefer the Sviridov trio to the Shostakovich trio.
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kyjo

Quote from: Mandryka on February 11, 2025, 11:56:50 PMActually I prefer the Sviridov trio to the Shostakovich trio.

I can't blame you for that! ;) Sviridov's trio is less prone to scathing irony and bleak introspection than Shostakovich's (which makes for more congenial everyday listening to me), while retaining that composer's great sense of drama, forward momentum, and thematic memorability. 
"Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music" - Sergei Rachmaninoff