Yuri Kasparov

Internet Edition compiled by Onno van Rijen

Updated 22 July 2012

Born

8 June 1955 in Moscow.

Education

In 1978 he graduated from the Moscow Power Institute, and in 1984 from the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory.From 1985 to 1989 he had been working as musical editor-in-chief of the Russian State Central Studio of Documentary Films. In 1991 he graduated the Post-Graduated course of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory under Edison Denisov.

Works

Symphony No. 1 "Guernica" for orchestra (1984)
3,3,3,Sax,3 - 6,3,3,1 - harp - 2 pianos (1=celesta) - organ - electric guitar- 5 perc.- 16,14,12,10,8.
Duration: 35 min.
First performance: June of 1984, Moscow (Russia).
Symphony No. 2 "Kreutzer-Sinfonie" for orchestra (1987)
3,3,3,3 - 4,3,3,1 - harp - piano/celesta - 5 perc. - 14,12,10,8,6.
Duration: 20 min.
First performance: January of 1987, Yaroslavl (Russia).
"Epitaph in Memory of Alban Berg" for oboe, violin, harp and percussion (1988)
Duration: 3 min.
First performance: June of 1988, Moscow (Russia).
CD Olympia OCD 283: Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Alexei Vinogradov (conductor)
"Diffusion" for three ensembles and tuba out of stage (1988)
2,2,3,2 - 2,2,2,1 - harp - piano - 3 perc. - 3,0,2,2,1.
Duration: 10 min.
First performance: May of 1989, Tcheliabinsk (Russia).
"Lincos", sequence for orchestra (1988)
2,2,2,2 - 2,2,0,0 - harp - piano/celesta - 4 perc. - 10,8,6,6,4. Duration: 10 min.
First performance: April of 1990, Norrkoping (Sweden).
CD Olympia OCD 296: Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
Concerto for oboe and orchestra (1988)
3,0,3,0 - 0,0,3,0 - organ - amplified harpsichord/prepared piano/celesta - harp - banjo-6 perc.- oboe solo -8,6,6,4,2.
Duration: 18 min.
First performance: December of 1991, Moscow (Russia).
CD Olympia OCD 296: Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Vladimir Ponkin (conductor)
"Invention" for string quartet (1989)
Duration: 10 min.
First performance: October of 1989, Leningrad (Russia).
CD Olympia OCD 296: Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
"Silencium", chamber symphony No. 1 for fourteen performers (1989)
1,1,1,1 - 1,1,1,0 - harp - piano/celesta - 2 perc. -1,0,1,1,0.
Duration: 12 min.
First performance: April of 1990, Moscow (Russia).
LP Le Chant du Monde and Harmonia Mundi LDC-288060, CM 210 (1993)
"Ave Maria" for twelve voices, violin, organ and vibraphone (1989)
Duration: 9 min.
First performance: November of 1991, Moscow.
CD Olympia OCD 296: Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
"Sonata-Infernale" for bassoon solo (1989)
Duration: 10 min.
First performance: August of 1992, Frankfurt/Main (Germany).
CD Olympia OCD 295: Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Valery Popov
"Genesis", microsymphony for orchestra (1989)
2,2,2,2 - 2,2,2,0 - harp - piano/celesta - 3 perc. - 10,8,6,6,4.
Duration: 6 min.
First performance: January of 1994, Cardiff (UK).
CD Olympia OCD 296: Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Vladimir Ponkin (conductor)
"Cantus Firmus" for violin solo (1990)
Duration: 8 min.
First performance: June of 1990, Latina (Italy).
LP Le Chant du Monde and Harmonia Mundi LDC-288060, CM 210 (1993)
"Credo" for organ solo (1990)
Duration: 15 min.
LP Le Chant du Monde and Harmonia Mundi LDC-288060, CM 210 (1993)
"Devil's Trills", variations on Tartini's theme for sixteen performers (1990)
1,1,1,1 - 1,1,1,0 - harp - piano/celesta - 2 perc. - 1,1,1,1,1.
Duration: 7 min.
First performance: December of 1990, Moscow (Russia).
CD Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga MK 417036: Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Alexei Vinogradov (conductor) (1991)
CD Le Chant Du Monde 2781120: Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Alexei Vinogradov (conductor)
"Sketch of a picture with collage" for violin, trumpet and piano (1990)
Duration: 8 min.
First performance: June of 1992, Korshom (Finland).
"Variations" for clarinet and piano (1990)
Duration: 8 min.
First performance: July of 1992, Chester (UK).
LP Le Chant du Monde and Harmonia Mundi LDC-288060, CM 210 (1993)
"Postludio" for harp solo (1990)
Duration: 8 min.
First performance: April of 1994, Gent (Belgium).
LP Le Chant du Monde and Harmonia Mundi LDC-288060, CM 210 (1993)
"Notturno" for clarinet, violin and piano (1991)
Duration: 10 min.
First performance: September of 1991, Cologne (Germany).
CD Olympia OCD 282: Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (1991)
"Stabat Mater" for soprano and string quartet (1991)
Duration: 10 min.
First performance: July of 1992, Kulundborg (Denmark).
CD Olympia OCD 296: Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
"Landscape Fading Into Infinity" for clarinet, violin, cello and piano (1991)
Duration: 10 min.
First performance: September of 1992, Frankfurt/Main (Germany).
LP Le Chant du Monde and Harmonia Mundi: LDC-288060, CM 210: Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble (1993)
"Goat Song" for bassoon, double-bass and percussion (1991)
Duration: 20 min.
First performance: May of 1994, Valencia (Spain).
CD Olympia OCD 297: Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble
"Over Eternal Peace", chamber concerto for bassoon and fourteen performers (1992)
1,1,1,0 - 1,1,1,0 - piano - 2 perc. - bassoon solo - 1,1,1,1,1.
Duration: 15 min.
First performance: November of 1992, Zurich (Switzerland).
CD Private: Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Alexei Vinogradov (conductor), Valery Popov (bassoon)
"Chaconne" for bassoon, cello and live-electronics (1992)
Duration: 32 min.
First performance: February of 1993, Paris (France).
"Nevermore", mono-opera for baritone and seventeen performers (1992)
On the poem by Edgar Allan Poe "The Raven".
1,1,1,1-1,1,1,1-harp-piano/clavesin/celesta-2 perc.- baritone solo-1,1,1,1,1.
Duration: 35 min.
First performance: November of 1995, Moscow (Russia).
LP Le Chant du Monde and Harmonia Mundi LDC-288060, CM 210 (Overture)(1993)
CD Private: Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Gregorio Gutierres (cond), Vassily Savenko (bass-baritone)
"Logos", concerto for orchestra (1993)
2,2,2,2 - 2,2,2,0 - harp - piano/celesta - 4 perc. - 10,8,6,6,4.
Duration: 15 min.
"Schoenberg's Space" for violin, cello and piano (1993)
Duration: 20 min.
First performance: November of 1993, Hamburg (Germany).
"Reminiscence" for piano and tape (1993)
Duration: 10 min.
First performance: May of 1997, Boswil (Switzerland).
CD Le Chant Du Monde 2781120: Yuri Kasparov
"Briefly about a serious matter" for trombone and organ (1994)
Duration: 8 min.
First performance: September of 1994, Moscow (Russia).
"Game of Gale" for tenor-saxophone, marimba and piano (1995)
Duration: 7 min.
"Seven Illusory Images of Memory" for sixteen performers (1995)
1,1,2,1 - 1,1,1,0 - piano/celesta - 2 perc. - 1,1,1,1,1.
Duration: 15 min.
First performance: May of 1995, Frankfurt/Main (Germany).
CD Le Chant Du Monde 2781120: Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Alexei Vinogradov (conductor)
"Touching", chamber symphony No. 2 for sixteen performers (1995)
1,1,1,1 - 1,1,1,0 - harp - piano/celesta - 2 perc. - 1,1,1,1,1.
Duration: 16 min.
"Effet de Nuit" for bass-baritone, clarinet, horn, piano, vibraphone and cello (1996)
On the poem by Paul Verlaine.
Duration: 10 min.
First performance: September of 1996, Saint-Pierre-des-Corps (France).
Concerto for bassoon and orchestra (1996)
2,2,2,Sax.,1 - 4,3,2,1 - harp - piano/celesta - 4 perc. - bassoon solo - 10,8,6,6,4.
Duration: 19 min.
First performance: October of 1996, Stavanger (Norway).
CD Private: Stavanger Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Dmitriev (conductor), Valery Popov (bassoon)
"Twelve Samples of Interrelations between bassoon, eight double-basses and eight kettle-drums" (1996)
Duration: 15 min.
First performance: November of 1996, Moscow (Russia).
CD Le Chant Du Monde 2781120: Jeffrey Lyman (bassoon), The double bass octet of Rustem Gabdullin, Victor Grishin and Igor Prokopov (kettle- drums).
"A Dream" for soprano and organ (1996)
On the poem by Edgar Allan Poe.
Duration: 8 min.
First performance: July of 1997, Loccum (Germany).
CD Le Chant Du Monde 2781120: Ekaterina Kichigina (soprano) and Ludmila Golub (organ)
"The World As It Is", musical picture for orchestra (1997)
3,3,3,3 - 4,3,3,1 - 2 harps - piano/celesta - 5 perc. - 16,14,12,10,8.
Duration: 10 min.
First performancve: October 2006 in Moscow.
"Scrappy Reflections" for cello, piano and percussion (1997)
Duration: 15 min.
First performance: November of 1997, Moscow (Russia).
"Chorale" for four double-basses (1997)
Duration: 6 min.
"Gas-Bag" for soprano-saxophone and alto-saxophone (1997)
Duration: 10 min.
First performance: March of 1999, Rouen (France).
"Trois Fables de Jean de La Fontaine" for bass-baritone, oboe, clarinet, trombone, percussion, violin, viola and cello (1997)
Duration: 15 min.
First performance: November of 2002, Tours (France).
"Beyond the Time", variations on Denisov's theme for fourteen performers (1998)
1,1,1,1 - 1,1,1,0 - piano - 1 perc. - 1,1,1,1,1.
Duration: 12 min.
First performance: May of 1998, Bielefeld (Germany).
"Crossthoughts" for bassoon and cello quartet (1998)
First performance: June of 1998, Villeneuve-lez-Avignon (France)
Concerto for cello and orchestra (1998)
3,2,3,2 - 4,3,2,0 - harp - piano/celesta - 5 perc. - cello solo - 12,10,8,8,6.
Duration: 20 min.
First performance: November of 2000, Moscow (Russia).
"Concertando con forza tanta" for cello and piano (1999)
Duration: 7 min.
First performance: October of 1999, Lviv (Ukraine).
"Light and Shade - Setting off", chamber symphony No. 3 for seven performers (1999)
0,1,1,1 - 0,0,0,0 - piano - percussion - 1,0,0,1,0.
Duration: 12 min.
First performance: October of 1999, Bacau (Romania).
CD Le Chant Du Monde 2781120: Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Alexei Vinogradov (conductor)
Symphony No. 3 "Ecclesiastes" for orchestra (1999)
2,2,2,2 - 2,2,1,0 - timp. - 1 perc. - 10,8,6,6,4.
Duration: 15 min.
First performance: March of 2000, Tours (France)
"DSCH-Meditation" for organ and twenty strings (1999)
Strings: 6,5,4,4,1.
First performance: 10 min.
"Con moto morto", fantasy for four buckets, string orchestra, organ and clockwork monkey (2000)
Duration: 8 minutes.
First performance: in 2006 in Rostov-on-Don (Russia).
"La Bonne Humeur de Monsieur Degeyter", musical joke for organ solo (2000)
Duration: 4 min.
First performance: September of 2000, Roquevaire (France).
CD Harmonia Mundi MAN 5028 HMCD 78
"Magic Violin" for mezzo-soprano and tape (2001)
On the poem by Nikolai Gumilev).
Duration: 7 min. 30 sec.
First performance: April of 2001, Genoa (Italy).
"Ghost of Music" for clarinet, bassoon, organ and percussion (2002)
Duration: 5 min.
First performance: September of 2002, Moscow (Russia).
"La Leçon de la Démocratie", musical joke for organ solo (2002)
Duration: 5 min.
First performance: October 2002 in Paris (France).
"Les Symboles de Picasso" for twelve performers (2003)
1,0,1,1 - 1,1,1,0 - harp - 1 perc. - 1,0,1,1,1.
Duration: 12 min.
First performance: June 2004 in Paris (France) by Ensemble "2e2m" under Paul Mefano.
CD Private: Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Stefano Mazzoleni (cond)
"C'est la vie", concerto for flute and orchestra (2003)
1,2,2,2 - 4,3,2,0 - harp - piano/celesta - 5 perc. - flute solo - 12,10,8,8,6.
Duration: 12 min 30 sec.
CD Private: Russian State Cinematographic Symphony Orchestra, Sergei Skripka (cond), Pierre-Yves Artaud (flute)
"Castles in the air" for twenty-four flutes (2003)
4 fl. picc., 6 fl., 6 fl. alti, 6 fl. bassi, 2 fl. octobassi.
Duration: 20 min.
First performance: March 2005 in Paris (France) by Orchestre des flûtes françqise under Pierre-Alain Biget.
"Quintessence" for piano solo (2003)
Duration: 2 min.
First performance: November 2003 in Cagliari (Sardinia).
“Contro lamento” for sixteen performers (2004)
1,1,1,1 – 1,1,1,0 – harp – piano – 2 perc. – 1,1,1,1,1.
Duration: 9 min.
First performance: November 2004 in Moscow.
"Obélisque", concerto for organ and orchestra (2005)
2.2.2.2 – 4.3.3.1 – celesta – arpa – timp. – 4 perc. organ solo– 12.10.8.8.6
Duration: 10 min.
First performance: November 2006 in Moscow.
"Le cauchemar nocturne de l'agent Fix", plaisanterie musical pour orchestre de chambre à cordes (2005)
4.3.2.2.1
D'après Le tour du Monde en quatre-vingts jours de Jules Verne.
Duration: 6 min.
First performance: June 2005 in Paris (France).
Hommage à Honegger for nine performers (2005)
1.1.1.1 – 0.0.0.0 – piano – 1.1.1.1.0.
Duration: 9 min.
First performance: September 2005 in Warsaw (Poland).
Dialogue with commentaries for double bass and piano (2005)
Duration: 5 min.
"Lontano", documentary music for organ and tape (2005)
Duration: 5 min.
First performance: January 2006 in Paris (France).
"Lullaby for Moscow" for flute, clarinet, horn, violin, viola, cello, double-bass, tape and video (2007)
Based on fragment of movie "Moscow" (1927) by Mikhail Kaufman and Ilya Kopalin.
Duration: 15 min.
First performance: March 2007 in Moscow.
"Woman in White" for string quartet and two short phonograms (2007)
Duration: 12 min.
First performance: November 2007 in Moscow (Russia).
Symphony No.4 "Notre Dame" for orchestra (2008)
3.3.3.3 - 4.3.3.1 - piano/celesta - 3 perc. - 14.12.10.8.6
Duration: 15 min.
First performance: November 2008 in Moscow (Russia).
"Promenade Sentimentale" for two choirs (4.4.4.4 and 3.3.3.3) on a poem by Paul Verlaine (2008)
Duration: 11 min.
First performance: June 2009 in Paris (France).
"Monody" for cello quartet (2008)
Duration: 10 min.
First performance: November 2008 in Moscow (Russia).
"Untransparent Emptiness" for flute and cello (2008)
Duration: 8 min.
First performance: November 2009 in Moscow.
Prelude, Toccata and Fugue for two pianos (2008)
Duration: 16 min.
First performance: September 2008 in Moscow.
Ballad for bassoon and piano (2009)
Duration: 9 min.
First performance: July 2009 in Birmingham (UK).
"Le monde disparaissant, chamber symphony No. 4 for 8 performers (2010)
1.0.1.0 - sax. alto - 0.0.1.0 - piano - harp - 1.0.0.1.0.
Duration: 12 minutes.
First performance: May 2010 in Paris (France).
"Five pictures of Invisibility", chamber symphony No. 5 for 6 performers (2010)
For flute, bass clarinet, piano, percussion, violin and cello.
Duration: 13 min.
First performance: June 2010 in Feldkirch (Austria).
"La Berceuse Dramatique" for piano and organ (2010)
Duration: 3 min.
First performance: February 2010 in Paris.
"L'Ange des Catastrophes", chamber cantata for baritone and 16 performers (2011)
On the poem by Vadim Cherchenevich.
1.1.1.1-1.1.1.1.0-harp-piano-perc.-baritone-1.1.1.1.1.
Duration: 25 min.
First performance: May 2012 in Firminy (France).
"Folk-tune Metamorphoses" for 10 brass instruments (2012)
For 2 horns, 4 trumpets, 2 tenor-trombones, trombone basso and tuba.
Duration: 9 min.
"Something Strange Out of the Cage" for flute, piano, bayan, 2 percussions and cello (2012)
Duration: 12 min.
First performance: July 2012 in Milano (Italy).

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