related works
resonances : for any instrument / Dmitri Kourliandski
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players)
Scoring:
instr
Oresteia : opera in 3 acts, 1996, Act 1, Agamemnon / libretto after Aeschylos' Oresteia, Wim Laman
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
sopr sopr-m ten bar bas MK4 2333 2sax 4231 4perc pf(synth) str(12.12.8.8.6.) tape
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
recit 13soloists GK4 5rec 4duduk crumhorn 4440 musette 5sax mouth org 0221 2perc man banjo g pf cemb cel guiro hp 3vl 2vla vc cb
Hans en Grietje : kinderopera, voor sopraan en ensemble, 2001 / Gerard Beljon
Genre:
Opera, musical theatre
Subgenre:
Opera
Scoring:
sopr 1110 0000 2perc man g hp pf str
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
Other authors:
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