Requiem (Tichtchenko)

œuvre de Boris Tichtchenko

Requiem, op35, est une œuvre composée en 1966 par Boris Tichtchenko pour soprano, ténor et orchestre symphonique. Le texte est d'Anna Akhmatova[1],[2],[3].

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  1. Daniel Jaffé, Historical Dictionary of Russian Music 2012, p. 328 - "He became a friend of the poet Joseph Brodsky, who introduced him to the work of Anna Akhmatova. Tishchenko set her Requiem cycle, Akhmatova's unpublished “underground” memorial to the victims of Stalin's Terror. Written for two voices ..."
  2. Valeria Tsenova, Underground Music from the Former USSR, , 272 p. (ISBN 978-1-134-37158-7 et 1-134-37158-6, lire en ligne), p. 53 - "As for his own work, it was a high act of civic spirit to write Requiem to the lyrics of Anna Akhamatova, another remarkable ... convey to the listeners the entire poetical text of Anna Akhmatova without turning his music into an illustration to her verse."
  3. (en) Pauline Fairclough, Shostakovich Studies 2, Cambridge/New York, Cambridge University Press, , 323 p. (ISBN 978-0-521-11118-8 et 0-521-11118-8, lire en ligne), p. 196 - "We should add here the Requiem of 1966 by Shostakovich's pupil Boris Tishchenko for soprano, tenor and orchestra based on poems of Anna Akhmatova; like Shostakovich's symphony, it is a setting of selected verses in a non-standard .."