SILVESTROV: SILENT SONGS Limited Vinyl 2LP Set New Release

Description

HELENE GRIMAUD & KONSTANTIN KRIMMELSILVESTROV: SILENT SONGS Limited Vinyl 2LP Set

Overview:

The gentle music and quiet nostalgia of some of the most exquisitely beautiful poetry ever written flows through Hélène Grimaud’s latest album, a tribute to the Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov. Together with baritone Konstantin Krimmel, winner of the 2018 International Helmut Deutsch Lied Competition, Grimaud presented extracts from Silvestrov’s song-cycle Silent Songs at the Stienitzsee Turbine Hall near Berlin last August, in the presence of the octogenarian composer, who has lived in Berlin as an exile from his war-torn homeland since March 2022.

Featured Tracks:

Disc: 1

1 Song Can Heal the Ailing Spirit2 There Were Storms and Tempests3 La Belle Dame Sans Merci4 O Melancholy Time! Delight for Eyes!5 Farewell, O World, Farewell, O Earth6 I Will Tell You With Complete Directness7 Here’s a Health to Thee, Mary8 Winter Journey9 The Isle

Disc: 2

1 Autumn Song2 Swamps and Marshes3 Winter Evening