Alfred Momotenko: Choral Works Latvian Radio Choir & Sigvards Klava

• Alfred Momotenko (b. 1970): Creator of Angels:
• 1 Momotenko: Creator of Angels 08:55
• 3 Sacred Hymns:
• 2 Momotenko: 3 Sacred Hymns: No. 1, Ave Maria 03:39
• 3 Momotenko: 3 Sacred Hymns: No. 2, O Lord, Jesus Christ 03:41
• 4 Momotenko: 3 Sacred Hymns: No. 3, Our Father 05:19
• Lullaby:
• 5 Momotenko: Lullaby 05:21
• On the Passion:
• 6 Momotenko: On the Passion 19:01
• Mystery of Silence:
• 7 Momotenko: Mystery of Silence 08:36
• Miracle:
• 8 Momotenko: Miracle 08:30
• Total Runtime 01:03:02

Info for Alfred Momotenko: Choral Works

The new album by the Latvian Radio Choir, conducted by Sigvards Kļava, is the international debut of composer Alfred Momotenko. Momotenko was born in 1970 in Lviv, Ukraine. He studied at the Higher School of Arts in Sochi and later percussion at the State University of Culture and Arts in Moscow. After the political situation changed, Momotenko moved to the Netherlands in 1990, where he continued his studies at the Brabant Conservatory and the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. With his timeless choral works, Momotenko continues the centuries-old great tradition of choral music and combines it with a contemporary language, most recently coined by Alfred Schnittke.

Momotenko, who was surrounded by choral music in his youth, returned to the world of choral music relatively late in life: all the works on this album were written between 2017 and 2022. Many of his enigmatic choral works are religious and could be described as poems or chants-larger than a miniature but less substantial than a fantasy, a narrative, a ballad, or a story. Two contrasting musical languages are often heard: the ancient, original znamennyj chant and the modern language. Momotenko's choral works include liturgical texts as well as settings of poems by Boris Pasternak and Joseph Brodsky. The largest work, Na Strastnoy (On the Passion), is a companion piece to Rachmaninoff's All-Night Vigil.

Latvian Radio Choir
Sigvards Klava. direction

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