IDAGIO | Sviridov: Snow Is Falling - Music for Chamber Orchestra

Featuring

Yuri Serov
Nikolai Mazhara
Sergei Voloshchuk
Lyudmila Shkirtil
Rimsky-Korsakov College of Music Female Choir
St. Petersburg Television and Radio Children’s Chorus

St. Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra
Georgy Vasil'yevich Sviridov

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Composition History

Sviridov's song cycle "Russia Adrift" (Otchalivshaya Rus'), written in 1977, was a bold title choice during the era of 'developed Socialism' and sets poems by Sergey Yesenin.

Composer's Artistic Vision

Sviridov is particularly known for his vocal music, often setting Russian poetry by figures like Yesenin, Pushkin, and Pasternak to evoke images of his native land and its history.

Composition History

The version of "Russia Adrift" on this album for mezzo-soprano and orchestra was orchestrated by Leonid Rezetdinov (b. 1961), as the composer Sviridov had raised the idea of an orchestral version with the conductor's father.

Composer Biography

Sviridov became a celebrated figure of the Soviet regime, receiving honors such as the Lenin Prize and the titles of National Artist of the Soviet Union and Hero of Socialist Labour.

Composer Biography

Georgy Sviridov, the composer, was born in Kursk Oblast, Russia, in 1915 and later studied at the Leningrad Conservatory, where Dmitry Shostakovich was among his teachers.

Composition History

The small cantata "Snow is Falling" was written in 1965 after decades of Sviridov contemplating Boris Pasternak's poetry, marking the first time Pasternak's work inspired a composition from him.