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How do words and music meet in the works of Paul Celan? What do modern readers and artists find in the strikingly complex and succinct texts born at the cutting edge of the 20th century tragedies? These and other topics are covered in a talk of the composer and Dom Radio resident Alexey Retinsky with […]
3 years ago
What was Alfred Schnittke’s attitude towards his own works? What kind of intricate connection did he see between sacred and worldly music? How were his scores created and performed when the aesthetic norms of their time were too tight for them? We are going to get the answers to these and many other questions in […]
3 years ago
The second episode of Modern Audience Laboratory Online is live. Musicologist Anna Fefelova joins musicAeterna’s chief chorus master Vitaliy Polonsky to discuss the score of Alfred Schnittke’s Choir Concerto.
3 years ago
Today is officially known as Knowledge Day. However, we’ve decided to have Knowledge Day every Tuesday throughout September: this will help you and us to prepare for hearing Alfred Schnittke’s Choir Concerto. In the first episode of Modern Audience Laboratory Online, musicologist Anna Fefelova and musicAeterna’s chief chorus master Vitaliy Polonsky talk about Schnittke’s choral […]
3 years ago
Today, the first episode of “Dialogues” is up on the musicAeterna digital platform. “Dialogues” is a programme created by violinist and conductor Ilya Gaisin where he invites musicians to an online discussion of various sides of the art they have devoted their lives to. The first episode features musicAeterna’s clarinetist Georgi Mansurov, the orchestra’s only […]
3 years ago
Today we published the recording of a round table discussion featuring four musicians on the musicAeterna digital platform. The meeting had happened at Dom Radio in February 2020. Teodor Currentzis, Alexey Retinsky, Leonid Desyatnikov and Nikolay Komyagin talked and pondered on art, its perception and creation. The discussion marked the beginning of composer Alexey Retinsky’s […]
4 years ago