℗ 2023 Deutsche Grammophon, Berlin
Released | March 3, 2023 |
Duration | 56m 18s |
Record Label | Deutsche Grammophon (DG) |
Genre | Classical |
Silvestrov: Silent Songs
Hélène Grimaud, Konstantin Krimmel
Available in 96 kHz / 24-bit AIFF, FLAC high resolution audio formats
Silent Songs / 5 Songs
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1.1
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No. 1, Song Can Heal the Ailing Spirit
Valentin Silvestrov; Yevgeny Abramovich Baratynsky; Hélène Grimaud; Konstantin Krimmel |
3:38 | |||
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No. 2, There Were Storms and Tempests
Valentin Silvestrov; Yevgeny Abramovich Baratynsky; Hélène Grimaud; Konstantin Krimmel |
4:05 | |||
1.3
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No. 3, La belle dame sans merci
Valentin Silvestrov; John Keats; Hélène Grimaud; Konstantin Krimmel |
6:18 | |||
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No. 4, O Melancholy Time! Delight for Eyes!
Valentin Silvestrov; Alexander Puschkin; Hélène Grimaud; Konstantin Krimmel |
3:05 | |||
1.5
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No. 5, Farewell, O World, Farewell, O Earth
Valentin Silvestrov; Taras Shevchenko; Hélène Grimaud; Konstantin Krimmel |
4:49 | |||
Silent Songs / 11 Songs
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1.6
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No. 2, I Will Tell You with Complete Directness
Valentin Silvestrov; Osip Mandelstam; Hélène Grimaud; Konstantin Krimmel |
3:27 | |||
1.7
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No. 3, Here's a Health to Thee, Mary
Valentin Silvestrov; Alexander Puschkin; Hélène Grimaud; Konstantin Krimmel |
5:43 | |||
1.8
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No. 4, Winter Journey
Valentin Silvestrov; Alexander Puschkin; Hélène Grimaud; Konstantin Krimmel |
5:41 | |||
1.9
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No. 7, The Isle
Valentin Silvestrov; Percy Bysshe Shelley; Hélène Grimaud; Konstantin Krimmel |
4:16 | |||
1.10
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No. 9, Autumn Song
Valentin Silvestrov; Sergei Yesenin; Hélène Grimaud; Konstantin Krimmel |
4:45 | |||
1.11
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No. 10, Swamps and Marshes
Valentin Silvestrov; Sergei Yesenin; Hélène Grimaud; Konstantin Krimmel |
4:54 | |||
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No. 11, Winter Evening
Valentin Silvestrov; Alexander Puschkin; Hélène Grimaud; Konstantin Krimmel |
5:37 | |||
Digital Booklet
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The gentle music and quiet nostalgia of some of the most exquisitely beautiful poetry ever written flows through Hélène Grimaud’s latest album. Valentin Silvestrov’s "Silent Songs" includes contemplative settings of verse by Golden and Silver Age Russian poets Pushkin, Lermontov, Tyutchev, Baratynsky, Zhukovsky, Yesenin and Mandelstam, Ukrainian lyrics by Taras Shevchenko, and Russian translations of poetry by Keats and Shelley. Grimaud presents a dozen pieces from this haunting tribute to the innate music of poetic words. She is joined by the young baritone Konstantin Krimmel, winner of the 2018 International Helmut Deutsch Lied Competition.
Hélène Grimaud discovered Silvestrov’s Silent Songs almost 20 years ago when she received a recording of the complete song-cycle as a birthday gift. Enchanted by the composer’s music, she soon added a number of his piano pieces to her repertoire and began a long search for the ideal voice to partner in Silent Songs. Her search came to an end when she was introduced to German-Romanian baritone Konstantin Krimmel. They presented their Silvestrov programme at the Stienitzsee Turbine Hall near Berlin at the end of August 2022, performing it in the presence of the octogenarian composer, who has lived in Berlin as an exile from his war-torn homeland since March. It was on this occasion that Grimaud and Silvestrov met for the first time.
“It is music which I find deeply touching in its authenticity and transparency of feelings. It is utterly poetic, never pretending to be something else. I am always happy to see how much it resonates with people. When I first asked to programme some of the pieces in concert, there might perhaps have been some scepticism. But I’ve always felt that we interpreters are an open channel between the world of the composer and the inner world of the audience. It’s only in that moment of acquaintance, when the sound resonates, that the connection happens, and it’s a powerful one. I’ve never not experienced it in sharing Silvestrov’s music with the audience, and that’s a beautiful thing to live through.”
- Hélène Grimaud
96 kHz / 24-bit PCM – Deutsche Grammophon (DG) Studio Masters
Track title | Peak (dB FS) | RMS (dB FS) | LUFS (integrated) | DR | |
Album average Range of values | -2.06 -4.09 to -1.22 | -22.51 -24.55 to -19.82 | -19.18 -21.30 to -16.60 | 13 12 to 14 | |
1 | No. 1, Song Can Heal the Ailing Spirit | -3.09 | -23.62 | -19.7 | 13 |
2 | No. 2, There Were Storms and Tempests | -1.22 | -21.23 | -17.6 | 12 |
3 | No. 3, La belle dame sans merci | -1.32 | -22.92 | -19.8 | 14 |
4 | No. 4, O Melancholy Time! Delight for Eyes! | -1.22 | -19.82 | -16.6 | 12 |
5 | No. 5, Farewell, O World, Farewell, O Earth | -1.22 | -21.37 | -17.8 | 13 |
6 | No. 2, I Will Tell You with Complete Directness | -1.37 | -22.48 | -19.3 | 13 |
7 | No. 3, Here's a Health to Thee, Mary | -4.09 | -24.55 | -21.3 | 13 |
8 | No. 4, Winter Journey | -1.22 | -21.25 | -18.1 | 13 |
9 | No. 7, The Isle | -3.56 | -24.25 | -20.8 | 13 |
10 | No. 9, Autumn Song | -1.40 | -21.84 | -18.4 | 13 |
11 | No. 10, Swamps and Marshes | -3.82 | -24.34 | -21.3 | 14 |
12 | No. 11, Winter Evening | -1.22 | -22.49 | -19.4 | 13 |