Georgi Sviridov(1915-98)

[vandermolen]

On February 13, 2023, the program "Georgy Sviridov and sacred music of the 20th century" will be performed in the Small Hall of the St. Petersburg Philharmonic.


Sviridov's tour in Kursk



https://riakursk.ru/po-mestam-georgiya-sviridova-v-kurske/

I don't think that I'll be attending that one!

[foxandpeng]

Canticles and Prayers. Outstanding.

I don't often appreciate choral religious music, so have to be in the right frame of mind. Composers like Sviridov, Vasks, Rautavaara, Kilar, and oddly, Penderecki are unusually gifted in my mind.

These Canticles and Prayers always seem to hit the right note.

[AnotherSpin]

Kursk is not so far from the state borders of Ukraine. Russia regularly attacks from Kursk, not with Sviridov's opuses, but with bombs and missiles. I hope the response will be not just adequate, but far beyond the fears of the Kremlin führer.

[Roy Bland]

Unknown Romances by Sviridov to Blok's Verses Published
The "Musical Academy" magazine has published unknown romances by Georgy Sviridov to the words of Alexander Blok for the first time. Blok was the most important imaginary interlocutor of Georgy Sviridov: over sixty years of "co-creation" Sviridov wrote more than eighty songs and romances to his poems. This CD presents the world's first recording of romances from 1938, which marked the beginning of Sviridov's immersion in Blok's poetry.

[Roy Bland]

http://choir-capella.ru/o-kapelle/diskografiya

[Mandryka]

I have just discovered the extraordinary Pushkin's Garland