«Ex oriente...III»
Eight Composers from the former USSR

Philip Gershkovich, Boris Tishchenko, Leonid Grabovsky, Alexander Knaifel, Vladislav Shoot, Alexander Vustin, Alexander Raskatov, Sergei Pavlenko

Edited by Valeria Tsenova

English edition.

(studia slavica musicologica, Bd. 31), 206 pp., music illus.,
price: 49,95 € (in Germany); 51,30 € (in Austria), 98,00 CHF (other countries).
ISBN 3-928864-92-0 (Format 21 x 14,8 cm)

Ex oriente…– III is a part of the book series dedicated to the work of several famous contemporary composers from the former USSR.

The first two issues of Ex oriente… were published by Verlag Ernst Kuhn (Berlin) in 2002 and 2003 and represented portraits of the composers of different generations and artistic trends. Ex oriente…– I: Nikolai Sidelnikov, Vladimir Martynov, Andrei Eshpai, Galina Ustvolskaya, Boris Chaikovsky, Yury Kasparov, Arvo Pärt, Viktor Suslin, Dmitry Smirnov, Elena Firsova. Ex oriente…– II: Andrei Volkonsky, Sergei Slonimsky, Alemdar Karamanov, Valentin Silvestrov, Nikolai Karetnikov, Roman Ledenyov, Faraj Karaev, Victor Ekimovsky, Vladimir Tarnopolsky.

The third part of this series comprises portraits of eight more composers: Philip Gershkovich, Boris Tishchenko, Leonid Grabovsky, Alexander Knaifel, Vladislav Shoot, Alexander Vustin, Alexander Raskatov and Sergei Pavlenko.

The composers featured in all three parts of this book series come from different regions of the former USSR: from Russia (Moscow, St. Petersburg), Estonia, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, Crimea. Some of them are now resident in Western Europe and the USA. But all of them are representing the image of great Russian culture of the second part of the 20th century. All the articles are actualized till the beginning of 2003.

Contents

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

Yuri Kholopov:
Philip Gershkovich’s search for the lost essence of music........... 1
List of Philip Gershkovich’s musicological research studies.................. 18
List of Philip Gershkovich’s musical compositions 20
Some of Philip Gershkovich’s aphorisms... 21 

Valentina Kholopova:
Boris Tishchenko: striking spontaneity against a rationalistic background. 23
List of Boris Tishchenko’s principal works.................. 50 

Svetlana Savenko:
Leonid Grabovsky: constants of style........... 55
List of Leonid Grabovsky's principal works.................. 73 

Svetlana Savenko:
The magic of Alexander Knaifel’s message.... 75
List of Alexander Knaifel’s principal works.................. 97 

Valentina Kholopova:
Secrets of the Moscow composition school in Vladislav Shoot’s "pure music"...... 103
List of Vladislav Shoot’s principal works................ 125 

Valeria Tsenova:
Alexander Vustin: the battlefield is the soul.......... 129
List of Alexander Vustin’s principal works................ 152 

Vladimir Barsky:
Apologia of Raskatov..........................157
List of Alexander Raskatov's principal works................ 178 

Vladimir Barsky:
Sergei Pavlenko: on the way to simplicity.. 183
List of Sergei Pavlenko's principal works................ 200 

Index........ 204

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