componist
Dmitri Kourliandski, born 1976 in Moscow, graduated from the Moscow Conservatory and completed post-graduate course led by Leonid Bobylev. His compositions won prizes at the international composers competitions, including the ...
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Dolce Stil Nuovo : String quartet Nº 3 / Dmitri Kourliandski
Genre:
Kamermuziek
Subgenre:
Strijkkwartet (2 violen, altviool, cello)
Bezetting:
2vn vla vc
Westerling : een kameropera, 1994-1995 / libretto: Graa Boomsma, Jan Bus
Genre:
Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre:
Opera
Bezetting:
ten bar 2actors GK4 cl(cl-b) perc hp vla
Genre:
Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre:
Opera
Bezetting:
zang ob(eh/ob d'amore) sax(sax-s/sax-a/sax-bar/cl-b) pf hp vn cb
Genre:
Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre:
Opera
Bezetting:
sopr-m recit GK4 2222 2sax 2221 4perc cel el.g hp cemb ham.org pf archiphone str(6.6.4.4.2.)
compositie
octavia. trepanation : Opera based on the tragedy "Octavia", attributed to Seneca and Trotsky's essay on Lenin / Dmitri Kourliandski; libretto: Boris Yukhananov and Dmitri Kourliandski
Toelichting:
In conducting our trepanation of revolution, we open a forehead and discover death, blood and tiranny. We sanitize it and graft a Buddha into the cavity, then we sew the forehead back up. We remove the source of the bloody revolution to seal off the notion of war forever. We transform a tyrant and send him to Nirvana.
Boris Yukhananov
The Opera’s music is based on the opening phrases of the revolutionary song Varshavyanika, but streches them out in almost 100 times. The temporal transformation of the song reveals various harmonic and melodic metamorphoses that become “nutritional material” for the 80-voice chorus, soloists and live electronic music thus arises a hermetic, self-referential construction that feeds on itself.
Dmitri Kourliandski