Margarita Gritskova, Alexander Mikhailov, Eduard Kiprsky - Eduard Kiprsky: Friedensgebet (2025) [Hi-Res]

Tracklist

01. Arioso for Piano, Violin, and Cello
02. Gebet (Hermann Hesse)
03. Gebet (Eduard Mörike)
04. Sehnsucht (Joseph von Eichendorff)
05. Der Einsiedler (Joseph von Eichendorff)
06. Trost (Joseph von Eichendorff)
07. Winterstraum (Joseph von Eichendorff)
08. Sie liebten sich beide, doch keiner (Heinrich Heine)
09. Ich grolle nicht (Heinrich Heine)
10. Die Sinnestäuschung (Heinrich Heine)
11. Du schlank und rein wie eine Flamme (Stefan George)
12. Wiegenlied (Clemens Brentano)
13. Intermezzo (Heinrich Heine)
14. Wiegenlied (Friedrich Wilhelm Gotter)
15. Friedensgebet - Chaconne for String Quartet

Pianist and composer Eduard Kiprsky, a native of St. Petersburg and winner of countless international composition awards, has long been involved with writing song cycles. On this album, titled “Friedensgebet” (Prayer for Peace), mezzo-soprano Margarita Gritskova - a beloved ensemble member of the Vienna State Opera - and Alexander Mikhailov, tenor at St. Petersburg’s Mariinsky Theatre, join Kiprsky at the piano to perform a selection of his songs. These settings of poems by Heinrich Heine, Eduard Mörike, Hermann Hesse, Joseph von Eichendorff, and Clemens Brentano, among others, explore doubt, loss, and suffering, yet also love, hope, and resilience. Framing the vocal works are two instrumental pieces: the Arioso for Piano, Violin, and Cello and the award-winning “Friedensgebet” String Quartet, which lends the album its title. Kiprsky reflects: My music strives to touch the most vulnerable facets of human existence. In its search for meaning, hope, and faith, it contemplates eternal truths - the perfection of nature and its harmony.

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