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Six Bagatelles & Suite​-​Homage to Alfred Schnittke

by Maxim Shalygin

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"Six Bagatelles" for two violins (2015)  & "Suite-Homage to Alfred Schnittke" for three celli (2013) were recorded in different years with Ukrainian musicians in Kyiv. Despite the terrible war in Ukraine started by Russia, these same musicians continue to remain in Kyiv today. Under bombardment by drones and rockets, under the threat of their lives, they continue the fight on the cultural front of their native country. You can support the Ukrainian contemporary musical environment via the KCMD fund: en.kcmd.eu/support#h.d4akxaoa2fpa

Alexander Sushinsky:
"The resistance of the moisture, the persistence of the cellists, the last peaceful autumn of 2013, [the time} when the Suite in memory of Schnittke was extracted in the space of Izolyatsia, a platform for cultural initiatives based in Donetsk. Furthermore, History with a faint glissando was already sliding into the abyss of spring, into the chasm of the war.

The six short pieces are almost a catalog of sensuality, oscillating from hymnal peace to baroque mort. And in between is an unsettling combination of ingredients: jubilation, intimacy, melancholic meltdown, and a lullaby fasciation crowning the final melody of thinking.

The suit is like a battle of MMA fighter and a grandmaster chess player: maneuvering enhanced by the blissful reverie. Everything is extremely compressed - in a quarter of an hour, or even less, you become a bluebird, torn in two, to play then bagatelles yet more.

Insidiously easy on the ear but challenging to perform, "Bagatelles" for two violins (2015), like the Suite "Homage to Alfred Schnittke" (2013), are in transit from "Letters to Anna" (2009-2010) for solo violin to the monumental "Lacrimosa" for 7 violins (2017) from the ambitious S I M I L A R grand cycle. Montage incisions, textures, unforeseen shifts, and high melting point whereby the organics of the instrumental intertwining generate a reaction that doesn't leave sedimental.

The trajectory of Maxim Shalygin fits neither the sleepy geometry of the old new complexity nor the möbiusian flows of furniture minimalism. Seemingly this sentient parabola has been launched by someone from afar. It's an untimely fragile path: a sort of chimerical idiorhythmie.

Those who are truly contemporary, who truly belong to their time, are those who neither perfectly coincide with it nor adjust themselves to its demands. Meantime, there is a struggle for the form. And the Form costs a lot".

"Six Bagatelles" for two violins (2015)
I. Butterflies
II. Aria
III. Toccata
IV. Scream
V. Waltz
VI. Capriccio

"Suite-Homage to Alfred Schnittke" for three celli (2013)
I. Sarabande
II. Baroque rap
III. Threni
IV. Waltz
V. Hymn
VI. Lullaby

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released November 24, 2022

"Six Bagatelles" for two violins - Ihor Zavhorodnii & Andrii Pavlov
recording & mastering: Andrii Mokrytskyi
mastering: Maxim Shalygin

"Suite-Homage to Alfred Schnittke" for three celli - Irina Kozlova, Sergey Kozakov & Igor Patsovsky
recording & mastering: Dmytriy Ganyshevich
mastering: Maxim Shalygin

photography & artwork: Maxim Shalygin

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