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From The Book "Liber Usualis. Missae Et Officii Pro Dominicis Et Festis Cum Cantu Gregoriano"

New sacred music of famous Russian composer Vladimir Martynov.

Two new works for the strings and voices - 'Requiem' and 'Stabat Mater' of Vladimir Martynov, who follows his aspiration for the creation of the new sacred space. The title connecting these two works - TEMENOS - means 'the territory around the temple'. On that territory Vladimir Martynov creates this new sacred space.

The work for two pianos of two friends-composers was created 'in correspondence'. Composers live in different cities (and even different countries after falling dawn of the USSR) and they sent each other letters with scores of the new parts of the work, which developed and added the initial musical idea.

Vladimir Martynov's attempt to create a New Sacral Space

New big work of the one of the leading Russian composers Anton Batagov inspired by Buddhist's spiritual practice.

«…I tried to fit into the situation created by Vassiliev in the most organic way, so that the music would become an inseparable part of this situation. Nonetheless, I believe that the music to The Iliad is capable of an independent existence. This is greatly enhanced by the remarkable performance skills of the chorus of The Iliad, obtained in collaboration work with Andrei Kotov, Svetlana Anistratova and Tatiana Grindenko – the latter should be especially credited for the majority of innovations in terms of acoustics and articulation, which have become a hallmark of the present recording…» Vladimir Martynov

“ …when we listen to the same music repeating itself, do we remain one and the same? And what is this 'one and the same?' Тhis particular mystery of 'one and the same' is what minimalism is preoccupied with”. Vladimir Martynov