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Moving Classics - Reflective Moments

Art has a feature of avoiding straightforward statements. 

More precisely, those thoughts originality of which requires an artistic language are rarely simple or straightforward. In this case, a musical statement becomes a metaphorical one. 

But what features - linguistic and stylistic - are inherent to this kind of statement? And what tasks as a result appear before the performer, the interpreter? 

Sometimes we expect a metaphor to be something complex, deliberately ambiguous, but if by the statement we gain new ways of understanding, a metaphor survives. It becomes obvious and natural like a long-time proven assertion in mathematics, which over time has become a well-known theorem... 

But then a new layer of metaphors appear. It comes naturally as a new coil of what was proven in the previous turn… Maybe there again is a choice appearing in front of the artist? What should the artist do, take part in the pursuit of the evolution of the metaphorical language, or hide, using seemingly familiar tools and forming a completely new context? 

The author, obviously, selects the second. 

Of course, this makes his music defenseless and extremely vulnerable to the performance. The slightest inaccuracy of the interpretation could trigger a completely different association and a metaphorical statement will be destroyed... 

I hope that we were able to uncover the author's intention in his modern sound where archaisms, modern expression and avant-garde ideas give birth to a new dramaturgy. 

Ilya Hoffman
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Polina Osetinskaya: piano

Composed by: Sergey Akhunov 

Recorded by: Alexei Barashkin 
Recorded at: The D. D. Shostakovich Saint Petersburg Academic Philharmonia, Large Hall, 31 May – 4 June, 2016 
Edited by: Alexei Barashkin 
Mixed, mastered by: Alexander Mikhlin 
Cover photo by: Anna Zyabreva

Sketches

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Sergey Akhunov - Sketch VII (Performed by Polina Osetinskaya)

The program of “Music Anthology of young Russian Composers’ is an attempt to present the prospect of ideas of young authors from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Niznny Novgorod, Kazan, Rostov-on-Don, Ufa and Perm. The works by young composers are performed by MolOt-ensemble and Festino Chamber Choir - the youth formations from St. Petersburg. The interaction between young composers and performers created the new layer of Russian musical culture, a layer filled with the energy of renewal. 

Integrating into the European musical context, the Russian school keeps its bright individual features. As in the previous ages, young Russian composers can be characterized by the love to extremes, high emotional degree and a special sense of time flow. We sincerely hope the listener of “Anthology “ will sense this originality of expression and appreciate the individuality of the works presented in this album. 

Artur Zobnin, translated by Adrian Mocanu
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Recorded by: Kira Malevskaya, Petersburg Recording Studio, Saint Petersburg, 2017 February 5-16 
Edited by: Anna Kuznetsova 
Mixed, mastered by: Alexander Mikhlin 
Cover design by: Stepan Lyaptsev 
Liner photos: Vasiliy Shishkin , Valeriy Vasiliev
Produced by: Artur Zobnin 
Executive producer: Sergey Krasin 
Thanks to: Youth Department of the Union of Composers of the Russia, Vasiliy Shishkin School of Graphic Design 

Commissioned by: Federal Agency for Youth Affairs

Music Anthology of Young Russian Composers

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Denis Khorov - Barcarolle

This piano piece is an impressionistic expression of the feeling known to the  most people. Doubts...

Doubts

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Тамара Зарицкая - вокал;
Виолетта Ремизова - флейта;
Виктор Самохвалов - рояль;
Станислав Поспелов - гитара;
Игорь Мозгалев - бас;
Пётр Талалай - барабаны;

Станислав Поспелов - стихи;
Чик Кория - музыка;
Юлия Ованесян - дизайн, офорт;
Игорь Смирнов - звук.

Арт-группа "Дальний свет" - Рыба тебя любит

This is my contribution to the 2019 observance of Piano Day.

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Reverie - Piano Solo #pianoday

Recorded in one take - 'Lost Dream' is a sublime and super chilled solo piano track from Andrew James Johnson. Recorded at Tileyeard Studios on a vintage Steinway upright piano with the full felt treatment, the sonorous sound world is perfect for delicate voicing of the composer. Andrew writes with emotion at the heart of his music, with subtle shifts in texture and tempo to keep the listener engaged and drawn into his mellifluous sound world...

Lost Dream

The first piano interlude from the musical revue The Yellow Cake Revue  "Farewell to Stromness", has become one of Davies' most popular pieces, and has been arranged for various instruments. (1980)

Farewell To Stromness  by Peter Maxwell Davies

Moving Classics TV is a popular platform for new piano music www.movingclassics.tv It is curated by a concert pianist and founder Anna Heller.

FANCYMUSIC is a record label focused on contemporary new music recordings. It is a broad platform for a wide variety of contemporary new music composed by different russian musicians. FANCYMUSIC is also a platform on which newer names may be encountered.

Denis Khorov - Barcarolle

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