FULL Poem in memory of Sergei Yesenin (Sviridov) Moscow 2005 Maxim Paster
Information on the Performance
- Work Title: Poem in memory of Sergei Yesenin
- Composer: Sviridov Georgy
- Libretto: Anna Akhmatova
- Venue & Opera Company: Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory, Moscow, Russia
- Recorded: 2005
- Type: Concert Live
- Singers: Maxim Paster
- Conductor: Alexander Vedernikov
- Orchestra: Orchestra of the Bolshoi Theatre
- Chorus: Chorus of the Bolshoi Theatre
- Stage Director:
- Costume Designer:
Information about the Recording
- Format: Broadcast
- Quality Video: 3 Audio:3
- Subtitles: nosubs
- Video Recording from: YouTube FULL VIDEO
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION ON THIS PERFORMANCE
Georgy Vasilyevich Sviridov (Russian: Гео́ргий Васи́льевич Свири́дов; 16 December 1915 – 6 January 1998) was a Soviet and Russian neoromantic composer. He is most widely known for his choral music, strongly influenced by the traditional chant of the Russian Orthodox Church, as well as his orchestral works which often celebrate elements of Russian culture.
Sviridov employed, especially in his choral music, rich and dense harmonic textures, embracing a romantic-era tonality; his works would come to incorporate not only sacred elements of Russian church music, including vocal work for the basso profundo, but also the influence of Eastern European folk music, 19th-century European romantic composers (especially Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky), and neoromantic contemporaries outside of Russia. He wrote musical settings of Russian Romantic poetry by poets such as Mikhail Lermontov, Fyodor Tyutchev, and Alexander Blok. Sviridov enjoyed critical acclaim for much of his career in the Soviet Union and Russia.
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