Leonid Desyatnikov: The Leaden Echo
Roman Mints, William Purefoy, Maxim Rysanov, Kristine Blaumane, Boris Andrianov, Alexei Goribol, Dmitri Bulgakov, Jacob Katsnelson, Anton Dressler, Anna Panina, Fedor Lednev, Pavel Stepin, Serj Poltavski, Evgeny Rumyantsev & Petr Kodrashin
In this first all-Desyatnikov album released in the UK, we are transported to an eerie, sometimes dream-like and often disturbing soundworld...But it's the title track...which most suggests...
Leonid Desyatnikov: The Leaden Echo
Roman Mints, William Purefoy, Maxim Rysanov, Kristine Blaumane, Boris Andrianov, Alexei Goribol, Dmitri Bulgakov, Jacob Katsnelson, Anton Dressler, Anna Panina, Fedor Lednev, Pavel Stepin, Serj Poltavski, Evgeny Rumyantsev & Petr Kodrashin
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In this first all-Desyatnikov album released in the UK, we are transported to an eerie, sometimes dream-like and often disturbing soundworld...But it's the title track...which most suggests...
About
Leonid Desyatnikov is one of the most successful living Russian composers. The release of Leaden Echo with words by Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of the disc’s six works which the composer considers to be amongst the most important of his output. Roman Mints has brought together some of the finest Russian musicians recording today along with the outstanding young British counter tenor William Purefoy.
Contents and tracklist
- Dmitri Bulgakov (oboe), Anton Dressler (clarinet), Roman Mints (violin), Anna Panina (violin), Maxim Rysanov (viola), Kristine Blaumane (cello), Leonid Arkad'yevich Desyatnikov (tape)
- Alexei Goribol (piano), Leonid Arkad'yevich Desyatnikov (piano)
- Boris Andrianov (cello), Alexei Goribol (piano)
- Roman Mints (violin), Jacob Katsnelson (piano)
- William Purefoy (countertenor), Dmitri Sharov (trombone), Kirill Koloskov (trombone), Roman Mints (violin), Serj Poltavsky (viola), Eveny Rumyantsev (cello), Pyotr Kondrashin (cello), Pavel Stepin (double bass), Dmitri Vlassik (timpani)
- Fedor Lednev
- Roman Mints (violin)
- Homecoming Strings
Awards and reviews
August 2011
In this first all-Desyatnikov album released in the UK, we are transported to an eerie, sometimes dream-like and often disturbing soundworld...But it's the title track...which most suggests that Desyatnikov may be a successor of Schnittke's nightmarish world...The performances, supervised by the composer, are exemplary.
May 2011
The performances are technically flawless and have a hint of missionary zeal about them, as if the performers know how much Desyatnikov's international standing hangs on their first portrait CD, and the excellent recording captures that sense of excitement.
