Composer: Sergey Akhunov
Performer: Dmitry Sinkovsky, Olesya Petrova, La Voce Strumentale
Conductor: Dmitry Sinkovsky
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Glossa
Catalogue: GCD924402
Release: 2021
Size: 605 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
Poems
01. No. 1, Though Your Sorrows Not
02. No. 2, There Is a Moon Sole
03. No. 3, Who Sharpens Every Dull
04. No. 4, Rain or Hail
05. No. 5, I Carry Your Heart with Me
06. No. 6, Dreamingly
07. The Imprint
Songs
08. No. 1, These Things Amazed Me
09. No. 2, Homeland! My Heart Shouted
10. No. 3, The Pond Says
11. No. 4, In Falling, They Fall Not
12. No. 5, There on a Mountain
13. No. 6, Do You Know
14. No. 7, Not in This World
15. Cherubic Chant (Version for String Quartet)
The Russian composer Sergey Akhunov (b. 1967) was educated at the Kiev State Conservatory, before he started his career as an oboe player. He subsequently gained experience in various musical styles and genres such as electronic music and rock.
In the mid-2000s, he consistently turned to composing orchestral, chamber and vocal music, but also film music.
This recording presents vocal music by Akhunov, including “Songs”, which he wrote as a commission for La Voce Strumentale.
Dmitry Sinkovsky as the spiritus rector of the recording – he is at the same time singer (countertenor) and conductor – succeeds in an impressive way, among others seconded by soprano Julia Lezhneva in three songs, in combining tonal contemporary music with the sound of an early music ensemble.