gerelateerde werken

Je t'aime : version for violin and violoncello / Maxim Shalygin

Genre: Kamermuziek
Subgenre: Gemengd ensemble (2-12 spelers)
Bezetting: vln vcl

Lamento : per archi = for string orchestra, 1980 / Peter Visser

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Strijkorkest
Bezetting: str

Duodecimet no. 1 : voor 12 strijkers, 1979 / Hardy Mertens

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Andere combinaties van strijkinstrumenten; Strijkorkest
Bezetting: 3vl 2vla 2vladg 3vc 2cb

Toccata : pour orchestre à cordes / Jan van Dijk

Genre: Orkest
Subgenre: Strijkorkest
Bezetting: str

compositie

Lullaby : for string orchestra / Maxim Shalygin

Auteur(s):
Shalygin, Maxim (Componist)
Toelichting:
It is, as the composer himself writes, a ‘hymn to life’. He explains: ‘There is an African tribe with a wondrous tradition. When two lovers decide to have a baby, they listen to the silence. They do this until they hear the song of the child that wants to be born onto this earth. Its whole life the child will be accompanied by that song. Thats is why regard Lullaby as a hymn to life.’ 
Shalygin catches this in music by slowly repeating and piling one and the same melody. A bass player plucks a slow and obstinate walking bass line. On top of that the strings constantly repeat the same melody. This starts with a single string instrument, but one by one more string players join the growing canon. Finally, the bass player stops his walking bass line and plays the melody in a lower range. This way Shalygin’s own lullaby is born.