"The music on this disc is a fascinating exploration of instrumental textures, with Shalygin creating structures and then disturbing them in intriguing ways. It is a striking sound world, and makes you keen to hear some of his more recent music." Planet Hugill
Six Bagatelles & Suite-Homage to Alfred Schnittke; Performers: Ihor Zavhorodnii, Andrii Pavlov, Irina Kozlova, Sergey Kozakov and Igor Patsovsky. Reviewed 10 January 2023
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Dear all, in April there will be an event that I have long dreamed of, which I aspired to, but could not imagine that its realization would happen so unexpectedly.
On April 15th and 16th, Minimal Music Festival at the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ will feature four chapters from the S I M I L A R cycle. That's over 5 hours of music with 28 musicians, not counting me as the conductor of the two chapters. I'm deeply grateful to each person who helped me to achieve this moment. I'm very much looking to it and hope to share this special moment with you.
The Minimal Music Festival commissioned chapter IV and presents the cycle together for the first time since I launched it in 2017. "Not only do the three existing parts sound during the festival, in the closing concert on 16th April will be premiered the brand new fourth chapter. Delirium has the instrumentation of four grand pianos – in S I M I L A R, sound wizard Shalygin digs deep into the possibilities of ensembles consisting entirely of identical instruments. Four top pianists will perform the unheard-of nuances of sound and emotion."
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