ORCHESTRAL MUSIC:
CARPE DIEM (2020)
("AS IF BEETHOVEN LIVED IN ODESSA")
Carpe Diem
("Якби Бетховен жив в Одесі")
The title of the piece is translated from Latin as "seize the day".
The piece begins with the most famous and fateful musical statement in history by L. van Beethoven, whose 250th anniversary we celebrate this year.
Lowering one of the notes by a semitone metamorphoses the "knock on the door" into an Odessa-like kletzmer-like pathetic tune, tune of a little man who can seize the day and overcome anything on Earth through his music and humour.
Orchestral version of this piece was written for Hobart Earle and the National Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra in February-March 2020.
CONCERTOS
FOR SOLOISTS AND ORCHESTRA:
VOCAL MUSIC:
CHAMBER MUSIC:
LIKHTAR (2011)
ЛІХТАР
after the painting by Kоstyantyn Lyashev
за картиною Костянтина Ляшева
This piece was composed after the eponymous painting by Kiev artist Konstantin Lyashev for our joint project – concert/art exposition for which we presented works inspired by each other’s art. When the piece was almost finished, I felt that it goes beyond the given topic, and two days before the event on the basis of the same material, I totally rewrote it making it more simple, ascetic and even naive, but better corresponding to the nostalgic, meditative mood of the painting.
PIANO MUSIC:
MIGNONETTES ET POEMETTES DE NOTRE TEMPS (2009)
МИНЬОНЕТЫ И ПОЭМЕТТЫ НАШЕГО ВРЕМЕНИ
for ensemble Nostri Temporis (fl, ob, bcl, bn, hn, vn, vl, vc, cb, pn) 6'
also version for piano four hands
This set of four small pieces betrays my predilection for the so-called “Silver Age” of Russian poetry that chronologically encompasses the first two decades of the 20th century.
“Mignonette”, “Poemette”, “Diesel” are fancy names invented and used by Igor Severyanin, a cult poet of that time, to define his colourful and glamorous verses full of sentimentality, hidden eroticism and machine age modernity. To that flavour I add a somewhat nostalgic look from “our times” (“Notre Temps” in French).
Published by Editions Musica Ferrum the work was selected through a call for scores by the “New Muse Piano Duo” for their US universities tour and recording of the CD “Transhuman”.