Hieroglyphen der Nacht

Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov’s work forms a bridge between past and present. His music for solo cello and two cellos features breathtaking silences and arching melodies frozen in time. Elegie for solo cello twitches and turns restlessly, and yet from the gloom, Bach emerges, hints of the Cello Suites coming and going like a dream. 8.VI.1810 … zum Geburtstag R.A. Schumann—for the birthday of Robert Schumann—is a musical conversation with the 19th century, while “Lacrimosa” is a tribute and response to the work of Silvestrov’s friend, composer Tigran Mansurian.