Concert Symphony-action. Gavrilin. Chimes Moscow theatre "New Opera"
Schedule for Symphony-action. Gavrilin. Chimes 2022
Orchestra: Symphony Orchestra of the "New Opera" Theatre
Gavrilin. Chimes
The Mariinsky Chorus Conductor: Andrei Petrenko
The
programme includes:Valery Gavrilin
Chimes (on reading
Vasily Shukshin) Choral symphonic work
for soloists, mixed chorus, oboe, percussion and narrator
One of the most difficult, emotionally deep works for choir,
Chimes by a prominent Russian composer Valery
Gavrilin will be performed at the Mariinsky Concert
Hall. Vocal and instrumental music (with the outwardly apparent paucity
of expressive means of the latter) came together in this
monumental composition. Choral “orchestration” made by Gavrilin
is full of bright colours and witty details.
It is absolutely amazing how the composer makes use of the wealth
of the human voice and makes the Chimes truly symphonic work.
Genuine emotional message embedded by the composer in this work, tells
the story of the human soul and one’s spiritual growth.
The epigraph to Chimes composed by Valery Alexandrovich
Gavrilin (1939–1999) could come in the form of his own poetic lines:
Never was a tale of more affliction Than to live
according to one’s convictions… “As I see it,” said the composer,
“the work should convey the spiritual life of the people through
the fate of one man – from birth, through childhood and youth into
maturity. The path to the finish is an endless road travelled by
people, generation after generation, images of the road, of the path,
of the river of life…” The core of Chimes is the story
of the human soul, man’s spiritual growth. From a collective pagan
ritual to a man’s prayerful transfiguration. From the merry and
riotous conduct of innately pagan amusements to Christian penitence. Gavrilin’s
choral symphonic work presupposes elements of theatricality when being
performed. It is a monumental work in which music that sings and music
that plays are miraculously blended together into an inseparable whole.
Gavrilin’s choral “orchestration”, full of vivid colours and witty details,
stuns us with its truly genuine symphonism. It was not by chance that Valery
Gavrilin gave the most important work of his life the title
Chimes. The academic Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachev recalled an
ancient Russian custom in later years: “To ring out the sin – to
cast a bell so that its ringing called out to God for forgiveness. Or to
cast a bell in someone’s memory.” Iosif Raiskin
Schedule for Symphony-action. Gavrilin. Chimes 2022
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