Silvestrov/ Eser/ Muenchne - Requiem Fur LarissaValentin Silvestrov is probably the best known Ukrainian composer, and his "Requiem for Larissa", now released on album by BR KLASSIK, was written in response to the unexpected death in 1996 of his wife, the music and literature scholar Larissa Bondarenko. She had stood by his side from the very beginning of his artistic career. It was in 1999, shortly before the turn of the millennium, that Silvestrov was finally able to complete his Requiem. He did

Through his voice

she attended classes at the Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris- Alfred Cortot

Paul has written more music for us than any other composer and we love it's humanity

Nowhere is this more apparent than their performance of Cynthia Folio's four-part piece At the Edge of Great Quiet

and UNIT to stop him

Discover the remarkable story of The Drifters

17 min/TV-14/widescreen

It marked a turn towards the more pastoral pop songs that would dominate later XTC releases

the students display the different skills necessary to master the codes of classical dance and the French style

but they work

Zeltsman Marimba Festival

combining 'freshness of acting' (Daily Telegraph) with an expert use of the theatre crowd and space that stylishly underscores Shakespeare's thrilling dissection of politics in action