Helene Grimaud&Konstantin Krimmel
SILVESTROV: SILENT SONGS LP 2x12"
4864105
Deutsche Grammophon
177Format: 2x12inch VinylRelease: 07.04.2023
TRACKLIST
- A1: Song Can Heal The Ailing Spirit - Yevgeni Abramovich Baratynsky
- A2: There Were Storms And Tempests - Yevgeni Abramovich Baratynsky
- A3: La Belle Dame Sans Merci - John Keats (Transl. Wilhelm Veniaminovich Lewick)
- A4: O Melancholy Time! Delight For Eyes! - Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (Excerpt From “Autumn”)
- A5: Farewell, O World, Farewell, O Earth - Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (Excerpt From “The Dream”)
- A6: I Will Tell You With Complete Directness - Osip Emil’evich Mandelstam
- B1: Here’s A Health To Thee, Mary - Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin (After A Poem By Bryan Waller Procter)
- B2: Winter Journey - Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin
- 9: The Isle - Percy Bysshe Shelley (Transl. Aleksandr Solomonovich Rapoport)
- B3: Autumn Song - Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin
- B4: Swamps And Marshes - Sergei Aleksandrovich Yesenin
- B5: Winter Evening - Aleksandr Sergeyevich Pushkin
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The gentle music and quiet nostalgia of some of the most exquisitely beautiful poetry ever written flows through Hélène Grimaud’s latest album, a tribute to the Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov. Together with baritone Konstantin Krimmel, winner of the 2018 International Helmut Deutsch Lied Competition, Grimaud presented extracts from Silvestrov’s song-cycle Silent Songs at the Stienitzsee Turbine Hall near Berlin last August, in the presence of the octogenarian composer, who has lived in Berlin as an exile from his war-torn homeland since March 2022.
