componist

Kourliandski, Dmitri

Dmitri Kourliandski was born in 1976 in Moscow. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory and completed post-graduate course led by Leonid Bobylev. His compositions won several prizes at the international composers ...

gerelateerde werken

PS [passé simple] : for piano solo and optional instrumental ensemble / Dmitri Kourliandski

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

Salto mortale : opera in twee bedrijven, 1980 / muziek: Wim Stoppelenburg, libretto: Belcampo

Genre: Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre: Opera
Bezetting: sopr alt ten bar bas 1111 1110 timp perc pf(cel) str(6.5.4.4.2.)

Frau Helga von Stavern : Musikdrama in drei Aufzügen, (nach einer friesischen Legende) / Text und Musik von Jan van Gilse

Genre: Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre: Opera
Bezetting: soloists GK4 3333 4331 timp 3perc hp str

Aan de Wannsee : opera, 1986 / libretto Louis Ferron, Geert van Keulen

Genre: Opera, muziektheater
Subgenre: Opera
Bezetting: sopr-m bar cl(cl-b cl-cb) h 2perc synth 2vl vla vc tape

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