Lera Auerbach – Ballet for a Lonely Violinist (2006)

Thanks for this Lera's Ballet: now I've on my library 3 cd of her and it's music is interesting and fascinating

I have four now. I managed to find "Tolstoy's Waltz" on the net(@192, unfortunately). We hear her as a performer on that album, not as a composer. It's quite interesting though: the album presents compositions by famous men who weren't known for their musical abilities, such as Leo Tolstoy, Boris Pasternak, Diaghilev and Balanchine.

I can get another cd, which contains one of her most interesting compositions, "Cetera Desunt", a quartet. But it's a SACD, grrrr!! Most probably I won't be able to rip it.

Now, some SACDs will, and others won't be read by my cd-rom drive - somebody please explain that inconsistency to me.

Thanks! I have seen your share at another place - there is Lera's fest going on!

Nice.
From what I've seen on intoclassics for example, the lady's quite popular in Russia (44 comments on a post of Tolstoy's Waltz)
I hope somebody will eventually come up with a translated poem of hers - it's just too stupid I cannot find any of her writings on the net

d'Avignon, in fact little of 44 comments there are relevant to the music.

U can find German poetry translation here
http://www.leraauerbach.com/content/poetry_german_read.html

Thanks very much, d'Avignon

Thank you, t42! I'll check it out immediately. I'm glad I can read German just as well as English. It's on her own website - now why didn't I see it before? I visted it, of course.
If you say the comments on intoclassics weren't relevant (I don't understand Russian, so I don't know),I have a pretty good idea what else was being discussed, hm. Or am I being suggestive now? It's undeniable, at 37 she's one gorgeous-looking woman.

In the meantime, I found two poems in English:

The Stage
To Zhenya Kissin

“May God be with you!” – not yet our salvation,
But clearly we sense the coming End,
With reckless thrall of inspiration
And sacrificial meekness of the Lamb.
The stage. Its shape is finely chiselled,
The piano is my steed, lathered to rage by silence,
And rearing to touch your souls with magic,
To reign supreme over the fierce crowd.
To become one with music – and to exit thus,
Beyond the boundless canopy of stars,
Where silence reigns and light,
Where you stand tall, to your full height.

To become one with music – and to exit thus,
Beyond the boundless canopy of stars,
Where silence reigns and light,
Where you stand tall, to your full height.


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Perhaps a sound means more than a word
And intonation – more than verse.
Everything has its spire, and its foundations,
And before all of that comes silence.

And rhythm was born before the line,
And music first was heard in metre –
All of space, condensed to a single point,
The writings of the prophets.
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Obviously, both her talents go hand in hand.

Many thanks for the poetry,
you can find more in English in her diary as well:
http://blogs.myspace.com/leraauerbach

thanks - fantastic stuff