Of passion, pain and drunkenness-ORION ENSEMBLE

In this programme we hear how the Russian romantic soul forces its way out musically. How initially its melancholy, its sadness still sounds classically restrained ( Glinka ), and how next its passion sings more and more exuberantly (Arensky). With Rachmaninoff the soul changes its tone: melancholy turns into gloom. Finally we hear in Schnittke’s world of sounds how that very same Russian soul seemingly resolves in a musical universum that is detached from any national character. Here the whole scala of the human soul makes itself heard, from passion to pain, from intimacy to resignation. Who ever then dares to speak of the typically Russian soul? Here music sounds in its very essence: pure and universal.

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Of passion, pain and drunkenness

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