NEW CD BY VLADIMIR GENIN
Chamber music
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Kritik von Dominy Clements: CD REVIEW: MUSICWEB-ITNERNATIONAL
The complete booklet is here: BOOKLET
“Vladimir Genin’s idiom is essentially romantic, lyrical, and atmospheric. None of the pieces are in any way impenetrable in an avant-garde sense, although there is greater substance here than anything you might associate with ‘new age’”.
“As the longest cycle/piece of the four ["Letzte Augenblicke"], this is describes as the "emotional and conceptual core of the project." Tatiana Kuindji has a powerful and expressive soprano voice, which is equally at home with the extended lines of the first song, Lure-call of the bloom, as in the rhythmic angularity of for this only dance. The ensemble is completed by piano and cello, the last as a counter-balance to the soprano voice and as the appearance of a "kind of love triangle" in terms of instrumentation as well as symbolically. The overall impression is of darkness, brought to its deepest point with todgeburt, or ‘stillbirth’. This is another of those deceptively simple pieces, which to me show how less-is-more when expressing the strongest emotions. Higher energy levels come with the frenetic making time run through my fingers, which is driven by a low, high-density ostinato in the piano. These are songs which somehow express Russian-ness as well as the gamut of emotions in the texts, and while not the most cheerful of listening experiences I have to admit to being highly impressed.”
“...this is an impressive achievement, and contains a great deal of powerfully individual music. The young musicians play and sing their hearts out, and are completely in tune with the composer’s intentions. Genin’s own pianism is also impressive. As a combination of strong chamber-music performance and some stirring new music, this is a disc which deserves to be heard.”
INTERMèDE AVEC DEUX PANTOMIMES PLASTIQUES
(Interlude with Two Plastic Pantomimes)
Triptych for violin & piano
Pantomime I Hörprobe
Intermède Hörprobe
Pantomime II Hörprobe
LETZE AUGENBLICKE
(The Last Moments)
Seven songs for soprano, cello & piano to texts by Xenia Evangelista
