Hymn - 2001
composer: Valentin Silvestrov
Instrumentation: string orchestra
Orchestra instrumentation: 6-4-4-3-2
Publisher: M.P. Belaieff Musikverlag
Duration: 7' 0''
Year of composition: 2001
Edition: score
16 Pages - Saddle stitching
ISMN: 979-0-2030-0380-9
Order number: BEL 659
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This work is a noble song of praise with a fanned-out texture on a tonal and harmonic basis. 'My hymn is enveloped in silence although it looks like a normal string setting on the outside. The paradox of Cage's ('4:33') is also present in a latent form. But this is the 'silence of new music'. Everything melodic from my other compositions can be found here as well.
A rest not only is a missing sound but also a state of retardation, of paralysis or a stop in time. In early music, there was the occasional need for silence, but here it is a fundamental feature.' (V. Silvestrov)
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