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Louth Contemporary Music Society presents Monk’s Music and other works by the Russian Composer Alexander Raskatov. Monk’s Music, Seven Words by Starets Silouan Raskatov’s monumental work for string quartet and bass voice, was completed in 2005 but following the death of its commissioner, cellist Valentin Berlinsky of the Borodin Quartet, the work was never performed. The premiere finally took place in Dundalk, Ireland in February 2013, courtesy of Louth Contemporary Music Society which then recorded the album, Monk’s Music. Michael Dervan in the Irish Times included the performance and subsequent recording as one of the cultural highlights of 2013 writing “Alexander Raskatov’s Monk’s Music, modelled on Haydn’s Seven Last Words, made a big impression in concert in Dundalk and on disc”.
On 3 May 2014, Monk’s Music will be performed by the Carducci Quartet and Robert Macdonald.The composer Alexander Raskatov with soprano Elena Vassilieva will also perform some additional Raskatov song cyles. The performance will take place on Saturday 3 May 2014 at 8pm in St. Peter’s Church of Ireland Drogheda as part of the Drogheda Arts Festival.
Raskatov’s composition Monks Music is based on seven brief texts by the Russian Orthodox monk Elder (“Starets”) Silouan, who was described by Thomas Merton as the “most authentic monk of the 20th century”, and declared a saint in 1987. Loosely modelled on Hadyn’s Seven Last Words from the Cross, Raskatov has scored the work, by turns mystical and dramatic, for solo bass and string quartet. It was written in memoriam Mieczyslaw Weinberg.
Raskatov whom Alfred Schnittke once called “one of the most interesting composers of his generation” has received commissions for new works from Gidon Kremer, the Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble, Netherlands Wind Ensemble, the Hilliard Ensemble and the Schoenberg Ensemble, among others. He received the composition prize of the Salzburg Easter Festival in 1998. Raskatov was born in Moscow in 1953 and finished his studies at Moscow Conservatory in 1978. In 1990 he joined the Russian Contemporary Music Association. His interests centre especially on vocal and instrumental chamber music and symphonic sonorities.
(read more:http://www.louthcms.org/monks-music-3-may-2014)
Monk’s Music is funded by the Arts Council and financially supported by Create Louth.
Tickets : €10 available from www.droghedaartsfestival.ie and www.centralticketbureau.com
Tel: 041 9833946 and 0818 205 205
http://www.louthcms.org/monks-music-3-may-2014
On 3 May 2014, Monk’s Music will be performed by the Carducci Quartet and Robert Macdonald.The composer Alexander Raskatov with soprano Elena Vassilieva will also perform some additional Raskatov song cyles. The performance will take place on Saturday 3 May 2014 at 8pm in St. Peter’s Church of Ireland Drogheda as part of the Drogheda Arts Festival.
Raskatov’s composition Monks Music is based on seven brief texts by the Russian Orthodox monk Elder (“Starets”) Silouan, who was described by Thomas Merton as the “most authentic monk of the 20th century”, and declared a saint in 1987. Loosely modelled on Hadyn’s Seven Last Words from the Cross, Raskatov has scored the work, by turns mystical and dramatic, for solo bass and string quartet. It was written in memoriam Mieczyslaw Weinberg.
Raskatov whom Alfred Schnittke once called “one of the most interesting composers of his generation” has received commissions for new works from Gidon Kremer, the Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble, Netherlands Wind Ensemble, the Hilliard Ensemble and the Schoenberg Ensemble, among others. He received the composition prize of the Salzburg Easter Festival in 1998. Raskatov was born in Moscow in 1953 and finished his studies at Moscow Conservatory in 1978. In 1990 he joined the Russian Contemporary Music Association. His interests centre especially on vocal and instrumental chamber music and symphonic sonorities.
(read more:http://www.louthcms.org/monks-music-3-may-2014)
Monk’s Music is funded by the Arts Council and financially supported by Create Louth.
Tickets : €10 available from www.droghedaartsfestival.ie and www.centralticketbureau.com
Tel: 041 9833946 and 0818 205 205
http://www.louthcms.org/monks-music-3-may-2014
