«Ex oriente...II»
Nine Composers from the former USSR

Andrei Volkonsky, Sergei Slonimsky, Alemdar Karamanov, Valentin Silvestrov, Nikolai Karetnikov, Roman Ledenyov, Faraj Karaev, Victor Ekimovsky, Vladimir Tarnopolsky

Edited by Valeria Tsenova

 English Edition only.

(studia slavica musicologica, Bd. 30), 245 pp., music illus., 
price: 49,95 € (in Germany); 51,30 € (in Austria), 98,00 CHF (other countries).
ISBN 3-928864-91-2 (Format 21 x 14,8 cm)

This issue is the second part of the book series  Ex oriente…dedicated to the work of several famous contemporary composers from the former USSR.

The first issue – Ex oriente…– I was published by Verlag Ernst Kuhn (Berlin) in 2002 and represented portraits of the following composers: Nikolai Sidelnikov, Vladimir Martynov, Andrei Eshpai, Galina Ustvolskaya, Boris Chaikovsky, Yury Kasparov, Arvo Pärt, Viktor Suslin, Dmitry Smirnov, Elena Firsova.

Ex oriente…II contains portraits of nine composers of different generations and artistic trends: Andrei Volkonsky, Sergei Slonimsky, Alemdar Karamanov, Valentin Silvestrov, Nikolai Karetnikov, Roman Ledenyov, Faraj Karaev, Victor Ekimovsky and Vladimir Tarnopolsky. The lists of composer’s works are provided at the end of each article and actualized till the beginning of 2003. The series Ex oriente… will be continued.

Contents:

Introduction by Valeria Tsenova.................. VII 

Yuri Kholopov:
Andrei Volkonsky the initiator: a profile of his life and work...... 1

List of Andrei Volkonsky's principal works................. 26 
 

Valentina Kholopova:
Sergei Slonimsky: the impetus to innovation and cultural synthesis.... 29

List of Sergei Slonimsky's principal works................. 26 
 

Yuri Kholopov:
Alemdar Karamanov: an outsider in Soviet music 59

List of Alemdar Karamanov's principal works................. 79
 

Svetlana Savenko:
Valentin Silvestrov's lyrical universe................. 83

List of Valentin Silvestrov's principal works................ 104
 

Mikhail Tarakanov:
A drama of non-recognition: a profile of Nikolai Karetnikov’s life and work.. 109

List of Nikolai Karetnikov’s principal works................ 130
 

Valentina Kholopova:
The labyrinths of Roman Ledenyov’s creative work................ 133

List of Roman Ledenyov’s principal works................ 157
 

Vladimir Barsky:
Faraj Karayev: "genug" or "not genug"...... 161

List of Faraj Karayev's principal works................ 185
 

Vladimir Barsky:
A lyrical digression with commentary or, that ‘notorious’ Ekimovsky 189

List of Victor Ekimovsky's principal works................ 207
 

Valeria Tsenova:
The "culturology" of Vladimir Tarnopolsky 211

List of Vladimir Tarnopolsky's principal works................ 239
 

Index........ 241

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