Two composers meet in idyll

Two composers meet in idyll

Orchestras

norman lebrecht

June 10, 2024

The exiled Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov paid a call yesterday on his contemporary Arvo Pärt in his Estonian retreat.

The Estonia Hall in Talinn is putting on a Silvestrov concert tonight.

Comments

  • Henry Cohen says:
    June 10, 2024 at 11:17 am

    I took your advice and bought the recent CD of the week, Silvestrov’s Widmung and Postludium. I’m glad I did.

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  • Yuri K says:
    June 10, 2024 at 5:14 pm

    And who exactly “exiled” him? He left Ukraine voluneerly.

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    • Jean says:
      June 11, 2024 at 7:04 pm

      Silvestrov lived in Kyiv until Rushists started bombing it in 2022.

      1,569 civilians have died in the Kyiv region since the war started. Silvestrov did not want to be one of them: he still has plenty of music to write.

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  • Hmmm says:
    June 10, 2024 at 10:47 pm

    Is it just me or do these two people resemble Alan Alda and Larry David?

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  • mel says:
    June 11, 2024 at 4:34 pm

    Tallinn, please. It’s really offensive to use the 1 N “Russian” version…

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  • Botvinov says:
    June 13, 2024 at 3:59 am

    Silvestrov chamber music concert was initiated by Odessa Classics festival, which 10th Season is being held this year in exile, Zurich, Luzern, Bremen, Ghent, Vilnius and this concert in Tallinn Estonia hall. I am very happy that because of our invitation of Mr.Silvestrov to Tallinn this remarkable meeting of old friends became possible.
    Alexey Botvinov. Pianist and Odessa Classics festival founder

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