related works
Possible Places : for violin solo and ensemble / Dmitri Kourliandski
Genre:
Orchestra
Subgenre:
Violin and large ensemble
Scoring:
vl-solo fl-a fl-b eh cl-b cl-cb cfg 2tpt trb tb perc gt hp pf 2vn 2vla 2vc db
Die Visioen : Oper in einem Akt / Robert de Roos
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
sopr 2ten bar bas GK4 2233 4330 timp perc str
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
sopr-m recit GK4 2222 2sax 2221 4perc cel el.g hp cemb ham.org pf archiphone str(6.6.4.4.2.)
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
zang cl sax-t/cl-b/cl-cb h tpt trb tp perc pf harm pipa zheng diedze dzing vn vla vc db
composition
octavia. trepanation : Opera based on the tragedy "Octavia", attributed to Seneca and Trotsky's essay on Lenin / Dmitri Kourliandski; libretto: Boris Yukhananov and Dmitri Kourliandski
Author(s):
Kourliandski, Dmitri
(Composer)
Description:
In conducting our trepanation of revolution, we open a forehead and discover death, blood and tiranny. We sanitize it and graft a Buddha into the cavity, then we sew the forehead back up. We remove the source of the bloody revolution to seal off the notion of war forever. We transform a tyrant and send him to Nirvana.
Boris Yukhananov
The Opera’s music is based on the opening phrases of the revolutionary song Varshavyanika, but streches them out in almost 100 times. The temporal transformation of the song reveals various harmonic and melodic metamorphoses that become “nutritional material” for the 80-voice chorus, soloists and live electronic music thus arises a hermetic, self-referential construction that feeds on itself.
Dmitri Kourliandski