• Title: Where Every Verse is Filled with Grief  | Alfred Schnittke (arr. M. Shalygin)
  • Instrumentation: for string orchestra
  • Year: 2021
  • Duration: 7’37”
  • Commissioner: Kamerorkest van het Noorden
  • Premiere: 3rd November 2021 during the festival Soundsofmusic, Lutherse Kerk, Groningen.
  • First performer: Kamerorkest van het Noorden
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PROGRAM NOTE

“Many years ago, during my entrance exams at the St Petersburg Conservatoire, I had a dream in which I was talking to Schnittke. It was a meeting with the beloved master. We were sitting in my small kitchen in my home town of Kamynske, talking as if we had been friends for a long time. This meeting was like a lifeline in an ocean of loneliness, stress and disillusionment.

Schnittke’s choral concerto is one of my favourite pieces in music history, and the arrangement of ‘Where every verse is filled with grief’ (Part II) proved to be another bond with this great composer.

It’s so sad that his music is so rarely heard today. ” 

Maxim Shalygin