Hélène Grimaud – Silvestrov: Silent Songs (5 Songs) - No. 1, Song Can Heal the Ailing Spirit

Nearly twenty years have passed since Hélène Grimaud first encountered Valentin Silvestrov’s Silent Songs, and finally she has found a partner to perform these songs with in the sensational young baritone Konstantin Krimmel. “It is music which I find deeply touching in its authenticity and transparency of feelings. It is utterly poetic, never pretending to be something else.” The present selection was recorded at a concert in the Turbine Hall on the Stienitzsee just outside Berlin in the summer of 2022, and it was on this occasion that pianist and composer met for the first time.

The cycle Silent Songs, written between 1974 and 1977 on texts by classic poets, marks an important chapter in Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov’s creative life. The controversy that it sparked continues to rage today. What was exceptional about the piece was less its sheer length (a duration of two hours without a break was nothing new in early post-modern music); the more surprising feature was found to be its “traditional” structure and, especially, the fact that it came from the pen of one of the leading representatives of the then “Soviet avant-garde”. Silvestrov commented in an interview, “For me, this is not about renouncing positions, but rather the continuation of the most avant-garde movement that in its previous form has by and large reached a point of exhaustion. The Silent Songs and my piano cycle Kitsch Music (1977) are silence set to music.”

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Hélène Grimaud – Silvestrov: Silent Songs (5 Songs) - No. 1, Song Can Heal the Ailing Spirit
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