Osvaldo Golijov

[vera]

Многие ли знакомы с его творчеством? Какое мнение?

[Стас]

Многие ли знакомы с его творчеством? Какое мнение?

Из того, что слышал, очень нравятся "Last Round" и "The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind"

[regards]

Потрясающий композитор! Я бы сказал, что он, возможно, - единственный живущий сейчас гений. К сожалению, мои упоминания его на форуме не встретили поддержки - вероятно, потому, что он мало известен в России. Я и сам ничего не знал о нем ещё полтора года назад, и обязан знакомству с его музыкой Степану Пачикову - романтику компьютерного бизнеса и абсолютно нетривиальному во всех своих проявлениях человеку, "открывшему" Голихова для себя так же независимо, как я в своё время открыл для себя Мессиана.

Совершенно оглушительные по воздействию Страсти и песни плюс участие в проектах О.Голихова потрясающих музыкантов, таких как квартет Кронос и Dawn Upshaw, делают его уникальным явлением без всяких скидок на море сегодняшних поделок и имитаций.

На форуме есть его захватывающее интервью.

[Degen1103]

ОСЛОВОДАМ:
Golijov - Yiddishbbuk - St Lawrence String Quartet, Palmer (2002 EMI)

265 МБ АРЕ, CUE, обложка.

St Lawrence String Quartet
Osvaldo Golijov: Yiddishbbuk
(EMI Classics)

Osvaldo Golijov was raised in an Eastern European Jewish household in La Plata, Argentina, where he grew up surrounded by classical chamber music and Jewish liturgical chant as well as klezmer and the New Tango of Astor Piazzolla - and every one of those traditions is represented on this new CD of Golijov's chamber music from the St Lawrence String Quartet of Toronto. None of which would matter a whole lot if Golijov wasn't such an instinctive and emotional communicator, able to knit these diverse elements into an ear-catching confection that can intrigue, delight and terrify by turn. You'll know how well Golijov can use these extra-classical influences if you've heard his arrangements of world music for the Kronos Quartet, or his St Mark Passion - a huge hit in 2000, the Bach anniversary year, and full of earthy Latin American sounds.

Last Round is for double string quartet and double bass, written in memory of Piazzolla, and conceived as an idealized version of his keyless accordion, the bandoneon. The first section's a fierce compression of the squeezebox over violent tango rhythms and wailing impressions of the instrument's reeds - and there's also the idea of the two quartets physically confronting each other, bows flying, a final contest in memory of a man who would get himself into fistfights all his life. Then an exhalation, a sigh, and a song - a rich, sensuous lament.

Lullaby and Doina is the simplest thing here, beginning with variations on a Yiddish lullaby and ending with a gallop nicked from the Rumanian gypsy band Taraf de Haidouks. What follows comes almost as a physical blow: Yiddishbbuk, named after an apocryphal psalm collection read by Kafka in Prague, and reconstructed here in the form of three musical memorials for string quartet. The first is a howl of grief over the deaths of three children interned at the Terezin concentration camp; these are the toughest and most chilling sounds on the CD - you can, and should, get goosebumps.

Finally the piece written for the St Lawrence String Quartet, but recorded first by the Kronos Quartet: The Dreams and Prayers of Isaac the Blind, in which the klezmer music of Jewish births, weddings and funerals is set against a meditation on the ideas of the great rabbi from Provence, communion between musicians, and the character of different languages spoken by the Jewish people. The Kronos have klezmer clarinettist David Krakauer, who's the real thing, and there's a wildness and authentic edge to his performance that's perfect...but for a Methodist from Maryland, Todd Palmer runs him pretty close and the St Lawrence String Quartet aren't eclipsed by their better-known brethren.

In fact their playing throughout the disc is superb, passionately committed as you'd expect from the first string quartet to have worked closely with Golijov; Yiddishbbuk was written for them. The recording is warm, and close...but a slight sense of claustrophobia only increases the impact of Golijov's music. If he's new to you, try and hear this CD. However you react to it, you're unlikely to forget it.

Reviewer: Andrew McGregor, presenter of CD Review on Radio 3

[philolog]

Многие ли знакомы с его творчеством? Какое мнение?

"Страсти по Марку" Голихова для меня - одно из наиболее сильных музыкальных впечатлений последних лет. Очень люблю также вокальные циклы (хотя данное жанровое определение, вероятно, не вполне уместно) в исполнении Доу Апшоу. Еще очень люблю его оперу "Айнадамар". Часто переслушиваю музыку этого композитора.