Alexander Knaifel - Svete Tikhiy (2002)

Tracklist

- In Air Clean And Unseen
1. In Some Exhausted Reverie
2. An Autumn Evening
3. In Air Clean And Unseen

- Svete Tikhiy
4. Ringing Of The Chruch Bells
5. The Song Of The Most Holy Theotokos
6. Svete Tikhiy

personnel :

Alexander Knaifel - Composer
Andras Keller - violin
Janos Pilz - violin
Zoltan Gal - viola
Judit Szabo - cello
Oleg Malov - piano
Tatiana Melentieva - soprano
Andrei Siegle - sampler

ECM's documentation of outstanding music from the former Soviet Union continues with Svete Tikhiy, the first of several albums from the Uzbekistan-born and St Petersburg-based composer, Alexander Knaifel. This recording - featuring the distinguished Keller Quartett with pianist Oleg Malov, and the voice of Tatiana Melentieva processed by Andrei Siegle - brings together important new developments and impulses in Knaifel's music. The Keller Quartet play with the conviction and imagination they also brought to their prize-winning and critically acclaimed New Series recordings of the string music of Gyorgy Kurtag ("Musik fur Streichinstrumente") and Bach's "Die Kunst der Fuge".