related works
Triple Concerto (Des-dur) : for violin, violoncello, piano and symphony orchestra / Maxim Shalygin
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Orchestra
Scoring:
vl-solo vlc-solo pf-solo 2fl(picc) 2ob 2cl 2fg 4h 3trp 3trb tb timp perc hp str
Folk-Lyric : for string orchestra / Alan Mills
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
str
1. Sinfonie : für Streicher / Jacques G. Goosen
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
13vl 6vla 4vc 2db
The rite of strings : for cimbalom and string orchestra, 1999 / Maurice Horsthuis
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
String orchestra
Scoring:
cymb str
composition
Lullaby : for string orchestra / Maxim Shalygin
Author(s):
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.