When as a teenager I began writing music actively and even studying composition with Evgeny Gudkov, a professional composer, my mother was never tired of repeating: “Write joyful, optimistic music! Where do you get the craving for drama at your age, for conveying a joyless mood?” Well, the current stage of my life led me to the creation […]
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Is it possible to depict the sound of the wind while playing the cello? The question was not idle, because the second movement of my “Byzantine Chants” (a sacred concerto for a solo cello) according to its title – The Monastery service/The Sound of The Wind – began from the sound of the wind, and ended with it. Together with Andrey Tchekmazov, an amazing cellist for whom the “Chants” were written, using quite rare technique of playing the cello we found this “windy sound”.
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