Valentin Silvestrov - Nostalghia /

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It's impossible to think these days about something other than Ukraine - that's why today the music is from this country.
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Valentin Silvestrov (b. 1937) - Nostalghia (2001)
The music of Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov is a unique and delicate tapestry of dramatic and emotional textures that freely alludes to the entire history of music. Beginning his creative career in the radical Soviet avant-garde, Silvestrov demonstrated an almost painful sensitivity to the intimacy that music can create between performer and listener. He would later refute his modernist roots, saying "the most important lesson of the avant-garde is to be free of all conceived ideas, particularly those of the avant-garde," and began composing a series of works entitled Postludium that initiated the elegiac, poetic, and highly personal relationship with silence which has come to characterize his most recent music.
The Brazilians call it saudade. It's an elusive, almost intoxicating mix of emotions suffused with longing, loss and memory, best evoked in music. Perhaps Ukrainians have their own word for it. But if not, it can surely be heard in Valentin Silvestrov's Nostalghia, a solo piano work from 2001 that may just leave you a little lightheaded and yearning for something inexplicable.
Nostalghia is music stripped bare. The fragments of melody, interrupted by profound stillness, float like hazy memories. Half-recalled scales, beautiful in their childlike impairment, recall Brian Eno's Music for Airports. But Silvestrov has calculated every nuance. The lingering mist is achieved by painstaking instructions in pedaling.
(c) NPR
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[@___yoursunrise]

Love this Bechstein.. Thank you

[@NelsonCleo616]

Man this is one of those videos id watch on drugs if I was Young n dumb again what a trip

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Deep & Sweet

[@___yoursunrise]

With drops in eyes and without any opportunity to play on instrument I want to ask you to perform this one - Myroslav Skoryk - “Melody”. The author died previous year. But what he left for us - this beautiful melody. With decades of suffer and sadness. But full of strength and freedom…
Thank you one more time 🙏😔🇺🇦🕊

He didn't die.

[@___yoursunrise]

@ Myroslav Skoryk (Ukrainian: Мирослав Михайлович Скорик (Myroslav Myxajlovyč Skoryk)), 13 July 1938 - 1 June 2020). Skoryk died on 1 June 2020 in Kyiv.

[@___yoursunrise]

@ yep. Sorry. Writing the comment I forgot to paste the musician I was talking about.. now updated

[@eduardolang3987]

Saudade is the saddest word we have in portuguese...

[@tomhighsmith]

Learned the word by Madredeus in the 1990s