related works

Amandante : Opera / Maxim Shalygin; libretto by Paul van der Woerd

Genre: Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre: Opera
Scoring: 2sopr 2bar pf 2vn vla cv db

Méditation : pour orchestre à cordes / Henk Klop

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: String orchestra
Scoring: str

Variations for strings : 1985 / Tristan Keuris

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: String orchestra; Other combinations of string instruments
Scoring: 7vl 2vla 2vc cb

Satarsa : for string orchestra / Maxim Shalygin

Genre: Orchestra
Subgenre: String orchestra
Scoring: str

composition

Lullaby : for string orchestra / Maxim Shalygin

Other authors:
Shalygin, Maxim (Composer)
Description:
It is, as the composer himself writes, a ‘hymn to life’. He explains: ‘There is an African tribe with a wondrous tradition. When two lovers decide to have a baby, they listen to the silence. They do this until they hear the song of the child that wants to be born onto this earth. Its whole life the child will be accompanied by that song. Thats is why regard Lullaby as a hymn to life.’ 
Shalygin catches this in music by slowly repeating and piling one and the same melody. A bass player plucks a slow and obstinate walking bass line. On top of that the strings constantly repeat the same melody. This starts with a single string instrument, but one by one more string players join the growing canon. Finally, the bass player stops his walking bass line and plays the melody in a lower range. This way Shalygin’s own lullaby is born.