Chimes (Gavrilin)

Chimes (Перезвоны - По прочтении В. М. Шукшина) is a Russian-language choral work by composer Valery Gavrilin. The work was written 1978—1982 and premiered in 1984. The texts, inspired after a reading of Vasily Shukshin, are compiled from folk poetry, Albina Shulgina (1936–2009), and Gavrilin himself. The premiere in 1984 was seen as a turning away from European themes to Russian themes in Gavrilin's output.^[1] The work was recorded by Melodiya in 1988, with the soloists Natalia Gerasimova, Svetlana Beloklokova, Ludmila Slepneva, Anatoly Lyubimov, and the Moscow Chamber Choir, under Vladimir Minin.

Movements

• Весело на душе, Смерть разбойника. Дудочка, Ерунда, Дудочка, Посиделки, Дудочка, Ти-ри-ри, Дудочка, Воскресенье..

References

1. Solomon Volkov - St Petersburg: A Cultural History 2010 - Page 546 1451603150 "A sensation was caused by the premiere in Petersburg of Bell Chimes, a nationalistic “symphony-ritual” (as the composer called it) by Valery Gavrilin, a follower of Georgy Sviridov, a leading Slavophile musician (and former student of Shostakovich) and composer of the Petersburg Songs."