Simple Music
Polina Osetinskaya- PÄRT - Für Alina
- SILVESTROV - Kitsch Music, I. Allegro vivace
- SILVESTROV - Kitsch Music, II. Moderato
- SILVESTROV - Kitsch Music, III. Allegretto
- SILVESTROV - Kitsch Music, IV. Moderato
- SILVESTROV - Kitsch Music, V. Allegretto
- PÄRT - Variations for the Healing of Arinushka
- KANCHELI - 33 Miniatures: Miniature No. 1, King Lear
- KANCHELI - 33 Miniatures: Miniature No. 2, The Eccentrics
- KANCHELI - 33 Miniatures: Miniature No. 3, When Almonds Blossomed
- KANCHELI - 33 Miniatures: Miniature No. 5, As You Like It
- KANCHELI - 33 Miniatures: Miniature No. 6, Don Quixote
- KANCHELI - 33 Miniatures: Miniature No. 8, Mimino
- KANCHELI - 33 Miniatures: Miniature No. 9, Mother Courage and her Children
- KANCHELI - 33 Miniatures: Miniature No. 10, Twelfth Night
- KANCHELI - 33 Miniatures: Miniature No. 11, The Blue Mountains
- KANCHELI - 33 Miniatures: Miniature No. 12, Waiting for Godot
- KANCHELI - 33 Miniatures: Miniature No. 14, Khanuma
- KANCHELI - 33 Miniatures: Miniature No. 15, The Caucasian Chalk Circle
- KANCHELI - 33 Miniatures: Miniature No. 16, The Role for a Beginner
- KANCHELI - 33 Miniatures: Miniature No. 17, Richard III
- KANCHELI - 33 Miniatures: Miniature No. 19, The Crucibles
- KANCHELI - 33 Miniatures: Miniature No. 23, Bear’s Kiss
- KANCHELI - 33 Miniatures: Miniature No. 24, Kin-Dza-Dza
- KANCHELI - 33 Miniatures: Miniature No. 25, Hamlet
- KANCHELI - 33 Miniatures: Miniature No. 30, The Role of a Beginner
- KANCHELI - 33 Miniatures: Miniature No. 33, Romeo and Juliet
- PÄRT - Ukuaru valss
Georgian composer Giya Kancheli wrote 'Simple Music', in which he used motifs from his numerous pieces composed for film and theatre. After attempting the serial adventure, Valentin Silvestrov composed ‘Kitsch Music’, oscillating between tonality and modality, which contributed to making his work ‘the ultimate epilogue of Romanticism’. Arvo Pärt also experienced this trajectory, with ‘Für Alina’ marking a turning point in the life of the Estonian composer, definitively putting his indelible stamp on the history of music: minimalism, spirituality inspired by Orthodox faith, contemplation.
Like Pärt, who left Tallinn in 1980 to escape censorship, Silvestrov, a native and resident of Kiev, went into exile in 2022. That year, Polina Osetinkaya conceived this programme and brought these three composers together, underlining the creative and spiritual freedom that links them.