Edison Denisov - Ode, Klarinettenquintett, Klarinette Konzert (1994)

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Edison Denisov - Ode, Klarinettenquintett, Klarinette Konzert (1994)
Classical | EAC: FLAC+Cue+Log | 1 Cd, Covers | 204 Mb
Label: col legno - Date: 1994

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Edison Vasilievich Denisov (Russian: Эдисо́н Васи́льевич Дени́сов) (April 6, 1929, Tomsk, Russia — November 24, 1996, Paris, France) was a Russian composer of so called "Underground" — "Anti-Collectivist", "alternative" or "nonconformist" division in the Soviet music.

Denisov was born in Tomsk, Siberia into the family of a radio-physicist, who gave him the very unusual first name Edison, in honour of the great American inventor. He studied mathematics before deciding to spend his life composing. This decision was enthusiastically supported by Dmitri Shostakovich, who gave him instructions in composition.

In 1951-56 Denisov studied at the Moscow Conservatory — composition with Vissarion Shebalin, orchestration with Nikolai Rakov, analysis with Viktor Zuckerman and piano with Vladimir Belov. In 1956-59 he composed an opera Ivan-Soldat (Soldier Ivan) in three acts on a subject from Russian folk fairy tales.

He began his own study of scores, which were difficult to obtain in the USSR at that time, including music ranging from Mahler and Debussy to Boulez and Stockhausen. He wrote a series of articles giving a detailed analysis of different aspects of contemporary compositional techniques and at same time actively experimented as a composer trying to find his own way.

After graduating from the Moscow Conservatory he taught there orchestration and later composition. Among his pupils there were the composers Dmitri Smirnov, Elena Firsova, Vladimir Tarnopolsky, Sergei Pavlenko, Ivan Sokolov, Yuri Kasparov, Dmitri Kapyrin and Alexander Shchetinsky.

In 1979 he was blacklisted as one of the "Khrennikov's Seven" at the Sixth Congress of the Union of Soviet Composers for unapproved participation in some festivals of Soviet music in the West.

Denisov became a leader of the ACM - Association for Contemporary Music reestablished in Moscow in 1990. Later Denisov moved to France, where after an accident and long illness he died in a Paris hospital in 1996.

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Tracks:

Edison Denisov (1929-1996)

01.Ode 09:16
für Klarinette, Klavier und Schlagzeug
(for clarinet, piano and percussion)

Klarinettenquintett 17:06
(Clarinet Quintet)
02.I.Agitato
03.II.Molto tranquillo
04.III.Agitato

Konzert für Klarinette und Orchester 25:54
(Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra)
05.I.Agitato
06.II.Lento

Eduard Brunner, Klarinette