Credits:

Olafsson, Vikingur

Description:

Echoes of Romanticism Heard from a Distance A collection of beautiful and mysterious small works by the great composer Silvestrov, born in Kiev in 1937, Silvestrov shifted his style from writing avant-garde music to using tonal sounds and became widely recognized. This collection contains small-format pieces with a simple writing style that is stripped down to the bare essentials, but with a quirky brushstroke that produces a unique beauty. The music is full of gentle consolation and nostalgia, even mysticism, as if he were simply watching the angle of the light change. I am not writing new music. My music is a response, an echo, to the music of the past." "Even if you cannot sing literally, music is still a song.