SILVESTROV: SILENT SONGS Limited Vinyl 2LP Set

HELENE GRIMAUD & KONSTANTIN KRIMMEL SILVESTROV: SILENT SONGS Limited Vinyl 2LP Set

Overview:

The gentle music and quiet nostalgia of some of the most exquisitely beautiful poetry ever written flows through Hélène Grimaud’s latest album, a tribute to the Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov. Together with baritone Konstantin Krimmel, winner of the 2018 International Helmut Deutsch Lied Competition, Grimaud presented extracts from Silvestrov’s song-cycle Silent Songs at the Stienitzsee Turbine Hall near Berlin last August, in the presence of the octogenarian composer, who has lived in Berlin as an exile from his war-torn homeland since March 2022.

Featured Tracks:

Disc: 1

1 Song Can Heal the Ailing Spirit
2 There Were Storms and Tempests
3 La Belle Dame Sans Merci
4 O Melancholy Time! Delight for Eyes!
5 Farewell, O World, Farewell, O Earth
6 I Will Tell You With Complete Directness
7 Here's a Health to Thee, Mary
8 Winter Journey
9 The Isle

Disc: 2

1 Autumn Song
2 Swamps and Marshes
3 Winter Evening