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Vyacheslav Artyomov has dedicated his Requiem
to "Martyrs of Long Suffering Russia" and, on a scale commensurate to
the immensity of the tragedy, has created a gigantic sound epic, a majestic
monument with meticulously elaborate details, fine treatment of each feature and
all- immense. A grandiose painting, it provides a subject for a long, close
"contemplation" - going into and taken by semantic meaning, then it
amazes one with its majesty, the might of its artistic impression.
The composer’s choice of the Requiem was symbolic to
him for the complicity of the Russian tragedy with tragedies of the world
history and for its joining with eternal spiritual values, the eventual
cognition of which takes place only on the borderline between life and death.
With all this the composer interprets traditional text
of the requiem in a different way, projecting it at the events of national
history, comprehending it as an onlooker, an eyewitness. Canonical text becomes
an impulse, a source of pictures, images - appearing in the creative mind of a
composer.
We perceive the continuity of Artyomov’s
"Requiem" with the best works of this genre in the world music, a
deep, basic connection with the music of Bach. An illusion of a boundless sound
space, of the cosmic scale of "action". It has a zone of associative
analogies with Scriabin’s cosmos. The radiant light of the "Sanctus"
addresses the listener’s memory to pages of "The Tale of the Invisible
City of Kitezh" by Rimsky-Korsakov. And the very conception of the
composition – the redemption, quiet forgiveness and rise of the spirit in the
face of the eternity. It the healing conception of all great Russian art.
One more thing should be mentioned – the integrity of
the artistic language of the composition, the beauty as an original, ethical
provision of all means, all devices of expression. No extreme devices are used
to affect the audience, no pressure, no excesses - strictly classical conception
of the art.
V. Artyomov
Requiem
I. Introitus
1. Requiem
II. Kyrie
2. Kyrie
3. Dies irae
4. Tuba mirum
5. Recordare
6. Confutatis
7. Lacrimosa
III. Offertorium
8. Domine
9. Hostias
IV. Sanctus
10. Sanctus
11. Benedictus
V. Agnus dei
12. Agnus dei
VI. Libera me
13. Libera me
14. Requiem
VI. In Paradisum
15. In Paradisum
Total time – 57:25
In Latin
Inna Polyanskaya, soprano (3,4,9,10,12,15)
Lubov Sharnina, soprano (3,4,9,10,12,15)
Elena Brylyova, soprano (4,9,10,12,13)
Alexei Martinov, tenor (3,4,5,10,12,15)
Mikhail Lanskoi, baritone (3,4,5,10,12,15)
Andrei Azovsky, descant (10)
Oleg Yanchenko, organ
The Sveshnikov Boys Chorus of the Moscow Chorus School
Artistic director Victor Popov
Kaunas State Chorus
Artistic director Petras Bingelis
The Moscow Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Dmitri Kitaenko
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