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    Valentin Silvestrov - Silent Songs (2004)

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    Valentin Silvestrov - Silent Songs (2004)

    Valentin Silvestrov - Silent Songs (2004)
    EAC | FLAC | Tracks (Cue & Log) ~ 498 mb | MP3 320 kbps CBR ~ 294 mb | Scans included | 119 min
    Classical | Label: ECM Records | Rel: 2004

    "Silent Songs" is a 24-song cycle dating from 1974-77, and is a grand gamble. For its entirety, almost two hours, its tempo is moderately slow, its texture open and spare, its dynamic hushed. The actual music is a sort of distilled late-Romantic tonality. The piano accompaniment is made of delicately shaped arpeggios. The harmonies are studded with appoggiaturas (downbeat dissonances that resolve) and surprising (but satisfying) substitutions for where one would expect a progression to go. Yakovenko is stunning in both his intensity and restraint, and Scheps is an ideally sensitive accompanist.

    When producer Manfred Eicher decided to make the Stille Lieder of Valentin Silvestrov available on ECM, he accomplished one of the most unprecedented rescue efforts from Russian label Melodiya’s peerless archive. The title, I have it on good word, is more accurately rendered as “Quiet Songs,” and indeed they are startlingly present in their subtlety and depth of thematic power. Silvestrov’s score demands that the trained baritone sing at the threshold of his capacity, enabling a strained, vulnerable quality to what might normally be a commanding eloquence. Yet in that vulnerability the singer spreads wings that perhaps have remained folded since childhood, arresting the heart via a new level of narrative intimacy. The piano, played to gossamer effect by Ilya Scheps, floats Sergey Yakovenko’s emphatic wonders on a current of ink and time. These melodies look deep into the core of every poem (though the music is so evocative one needn’t even refer to the translations), and find in themselves the means to flourish in a space stilled by anticipation.

    These are mournful songs of lost love, unstoppable nostalgia, and (sometimes satiric) exile, and from their nearly two-hour expanse one is hard-pressed to choose favorites. Yet in the interest of exposition I can hardly ignore the heartfelt intensities—in both composition and performance—of Silvestrov’s Pushkin settings, in particular “Winter Journey” and the elegiac “Verses Composed At Night At A Time Of Insomnia.” Like footprints in snow, they are deep and prone to disappearance. By contrast, two Lermentov settings—“When The Cornfield, Yellowing, Stirs” and “Mountain Summits”—stretch Yakovenko to the cycle’s highest registers, overflowing therefrom with honest innocence. In these one senses the same diffuse gaze as Yesenin’s “Autumn Song,” which aside from being one of the most heart-stopping of the set also lifts us above the landscapes through which we otherwise trudge in desperation.

    The crowning highlight in this regard, however, is Keats’s “La Belle Dame Sans Merci,” which twists the mind into a simulacrum of its own cognition. Having sung this piece myself, my feelings toward it are admittedly skewed, though I will venture to say that if it doesn’t move you then nothing in these lieder will. “La Belle” is also representative of Scheps’s sensitivity, which renders the keys as might the wind rustle whispers from leaves. It is just present enough to carry along the voice without overpowering it, allowing its contours the grace of self-definition. Similarly, Shevchenko’s “Farewell, O World, O Earth” inspires some of Silvestrov’s most inspired songcraft, which he would revisit in his Requiem for Larissa.

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    CD1

    01. Song Can Tend The Ailing Spirit (Baratynsky)
    02. There Were Some Storms And Blizzards (Baratynsky)
    03. La Belle Dame Sans Merci (Keats)
    04. O Melancholy Time (Pushkin)
    05. Farewell, O World, O Earth (Shevchenko)
    06. What Meaning Has My Name For You (Pushkin)
    07. I Will Tell You With Unswerving Frankness (Mandelstam)
    08. I'm Drinking To Mary (Pushkin)
    09. Winter Journey (Pushkin)
    10. White, A Solitary Sail (Lermontov)
    11. I Met You (Tyutchev)
    12. The Isle (Shelley)

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    CD2

    01. Eleven Songs. Something tender, blue, unspoken (Yesenin)
    02. Autumn Song (Yesenin)
    03. Swamps and marshes (Yesenin)
    04. Winter Evening (Pushkin)
    05. Three Songs. When the cornfield, yellowing, stirs (Lermontov)
    06. I set out on the road alone (Lermontov)
    07. Mountain summits (Lermontov)
    08. Five songs. Elegy. Verses Composed at Night, at a Time of Insomnia (Pushkin)
    09. Choral. A vengeful God (Tyutchev)
    10. Meditation. It's time, my friend, it's time (Pushkin)
    11. Ode. Schubert on water (Mandelstam)
    12. Postludium. Those sweet companions (Zhukovsky)
    13. Four songs. My lashes are pricking (Mandelstam)
    14. I don't know when (Mandelstam)
    15. For the thunderous grandeur of ages to come (Mandelstam)
    16. The oaks drink from a cold vessel (Mandelstam)

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    Sergey Yakovenko - Baritone
    Ilya Scheps - Piano
    Valentin Silvestrov - Piano

    All thanks to the original uploader: AneL