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🎵 Buy the MP3 album on the Official Halidon Music Store: 🎧 Stream it on Spotify: 🍎 iTunes & Apple Music: 📖 Complete score & individual parts: 👉 Sync licensing: ✨ Listen to Alexander’s complete Suites on Spotify: ☕ If you like what we do and would like to support us, you can now buy us a coffee: Donations will go towards keeping the YouTube channel going and funding new recording sessions with our amazing team of artists. Thank you! 🙏 Alexander Litvinovsky Suite for String Orchestra LE GRAND CAHIER (THE NOTEBOOK) Performed by Metamorphose String Orchestra Conducted by Pavel Lyubomudrov I. La Forêt et la Rivière 00:00 II. Les Alertes 02:46 III. L’Hiver 04:57 IV. Nos Etudes 08:33 V. La Servante et l’Ordonnance 11:22 VI. Le Bain 13:47 VII. Les Pommes de Grand-Mère 16:00 VIII. Théâtre 18:16 IX. Accusations 20:58 X. L’Incendie 24:04 XI. La Fin de la Guerre 26:24 XII. La Séparation 29:06 ABOUT ALEXANDER LITVINOVSKY Alexander Litvinovsky was born in Minsk in 1962. He graduated from the State Music College (1982) as a musicologist, from the Belarusian State Academy of Music in the class of composition under Prof. Dmitry Smolsky (1987) and received a post-graduate degree there (1991). He took part in workshops under the guidance of Jonathan Harvey and Michael Nyman (Great Britain), Louis Andriessen (Holland), Martin Bresnick (USA), Sylvano Bussotti (Italy), Tristan Murail and Fransois-Bernard Mache (France). As a composer he writes in various genres: from chamber, choral and symphonic music to electro-acoustic art. The creative concept: from tradition to avant-garde. Alexander’s music has been presented at various festivals and concerts around Europe and USA. ABOUT “LE GRAND CAHIER“ The Suite for Strings “Le Grand Cahier“ (The Notebook) was composed for a stage production based on the 1986 novel of the same name by Hungarian-Swiss writer Agota Kristof (1935-2011). Kristof’s novel tells the story of two teenage brothers struggling to survive in a Hungarian bordertown during World War II. Originally written in French and published in Switzerland, the critically acclaimed novel has been described as a “post-Nietzschean nightmare written in the style of a children’s diary“. ABOUT THE ORCHESTRA Captivating, soul-stirring performances of classical and contemporary music. The Metamorphose String Orchestra of Minsk, founded in 2015 by conductor Pavel Lyubomudrov, has been taking the Belarusian music scene by storm with a series of critically acclaimed concerts – and now has its eye on Europe. Exquisitely blending creativity, tradition and musicianship, the Orchestra’s performances exude a deep love and understanding of music. With a constantly-changing repertoire that spans from Baroque to original arrangements of popular music and contemporary Belarusian composers, the Orchestra proves true to its name: experimentation is in its DNA. Conductor Pavel Lyubomudrov, a graduate of the St. Petersburg State Conservatory and a pupil of Honoured Artist of the Russian Federation Alexander Vasilyevich Alekseev, has filled the Orchestra’s ranks with some of the country’s finest musicians. Alumni of the St. Petersburg, Moscow and Minsk Conservatoires have joined him on his artistic journey, sharing stages with renowned soloists such as cellists Mikael Samsonov (Germany) and Antonio Mostacci (Italy), violinists Lisa Jacobs (Netherlands) and Andrey Baranov (Switzerland), oboist Juan Manuel García-Cano (Spain), flutist Maria Fedotova and pianist Stanislav Soloviev (Russia), among others. “Music changes lives”, is the firm belief of Pavel Lyubomudrov. “By taking people into a region beyond words, it helps them connect with themselves – and others – on the highest, purest emotional level”. #litvinovsky #stringorchestra #modernclassical All rights reserved
