Vladislav Shoot

Vladislav Alekseyevich Schut (Russian Владислав Алексеевич Шуть; scientific transliteration Vladislav Alekseevich Shut '; born March 3, 1941 in Wosnessenka Perscha, Soviet Union) is a British- Russian composer.

Life

Schut studied at the Moscow Institute Gnessins composition with Nikolai Peiko, where he graduated in 1967 took off. Between 1967 and 1983 he worked as a lecturer at the Soviet music magazine " Sowjetski compositor ", before he concentrated on his work as a freelance composer. During this time he made ​​himself especially by film scores a name. Although he saw exposed to massive pressure and even performance prohibitions to Schut committed since the 70s of Soviet avant-garde music. After the fall of the Iron Curtain Schut founded in 1990 together with a group of Moscow composers, including Edison Denisov, Jelena Firsova, Nikolai Korndorf and Dmitri Smirnov, the Society for Contemporary Music (ASM Assozijazija sowremennoi musyki ). In 1992, he accepted an offer to to act in Dartington Hall for three years as Composer-in- Residence, and remained even after expiration of this program in England.

Also Schuts kids today are musically active: his son Eli also acts as a composer, his daughter Niki as a pianist.

Music

Schut is considered a representative of "pure " music: he does not build his works on non-musical content such as text or art on, but always goes from a sound as a basic idea from. He uses a variety of elements such as aleatoric, serial music, twelve-tone technique or stylistic quotations and allusions, most clearly, however, can account for the influence of Alban Berg in his music. Schut herself says of his music:

" I love a music in which there is next to all the beauty and perfection of a kind of irrational door, a black hole ', a place of chaos and grief. It must be the less sometimes reveal this hole, the better, but present. "

In the Orchestration Schut preferred mostly smaller ensembles that he can in turn often divided into groups and create different, overlapping soundscapes. He always lets the performer within the limits aleatory some freedom.

Schuts music has been performed at various festivals around the world, such as the " Moscow Autumn ", the " Almeida Festival " ( London), the Schleswig -Holstein Music Festival, Wien Modern, the " Présences " (Paris ) and the " Ars Musica " (Brussels). In other European countries, the USA and Korea found his works appeal. He also composed several commissioned works, including for the BBC Symphony Orchestra (High Cross Symphony, 1998), the Philharmonia Orchestra, Radio France and for various festivals, organizations and ensembles. Broadcasters in Berlin, Budapest, Cologne, London, Moscow and Paris took to his works.

Schut lets his works from the music publisher MP Belaieff move from Mainz, individual works have been published by Boosey & Hawkes and Sikorski Music Publishers.

Works (selection)

Orchestral works

  • Sinfonia da Camera No. 3 for Flute, Oboe and 2 ensemble (percussion and strings ), 1978
  • Romantic Messages for flute, bassoon, prepared piano and string orchestra, 1979
  • Largo Symphony for organ and small orchestra ( 15 players ), 1981
  • Why? for small orchestra ( 15 players ), 1986
  • Ex Animo for symphony orchestra, 1988
  • Sinfonia da Camera No.. 4 for Tam - Tam and Strings, 1992
  • Sinfonia da Camera No.. 5 for small orchestra ( 16 players ), 1992
  • Serenade for String Orchestra, 1995
  • Divertimento for flute, vibraphone and string orchestra, 1997
  • High -Cross Symphony for Symphony Orchestra, 1998
  • Sinfonia da Camera No.. 6 for string orchestra and percussion, 2005

Chamber Music

  • Sonata - Fantasia for Violin and Piano, 1969, revised in 2001
  • Cuckoo's Rhymes (20 miniatures for children), for violin and piano, 1969, revised 1999
  • Sonata for Cello, 1970, revised 1999
  • Youth album, for Violin and Piano, 1971, revised 1999
  • Sinfonia da Camera No.. 1 for 4 cellos, double bass and timpani, 1973
  • Sinfonia da Camera No.. 2 for flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, bassoon, viola, cello and double bass, 1975
  • Five Easy Pieces for Horn and Piano, 1976, revised in 2001
  • Sonata Breve for Flute, 1977
  • Trio for bassoon, cello and percussion, 1978
  • Solo per Fagotto for bassoon, 1978
  • Metamorphosis for saxophone, harp, double bass and percussion, 1979
  • Trio for 2 Clarinets and Bass Clarinet, 1982
  • Parable for percussion ( 6 players ), 1983
  • Espressivo for flute, oboe, violin, cello and piano, 1984
  • Epitaph for French horn, 2 trumpets, trombone and tuba, 1984
  • Mini - partita for Viola and Piano, 1987
  • Four Versions for bassoon and string quartet, 1990 ( also arranged for Bassoon, Violin, Viola and Cello, 1996)
  • Offering for Violin, Cello and Piano, 1991
  • Serenade for String Quartet, 1994
  • Pantomime for Flute and Harpsichord, 1995
  • Con Passione, for string quartet and piano, 1995
  • Amoroso, for clarinet and string quartet, 1996
  • Chaconne for bayan, 1999
  • Pastorale for Flute, Clarinet, Oboe, Bassoon and Piano, 2002
  • Eternal rest, for percussion ( 3 players ), 2002
  • Suite for String Orchestra, 2003
  • Three Encounters with Shostakovich for clarinet, horn, string quartet, piano and percussion, 2006

Chorales

  • She came and went ( text by James Russell Lowell ) for mixed chorus, 2001 ( also available in a version for mixed choir, soprano and flute, 2001)
  • Two Holy Sonnets ( text by John Donne ) for mixed choir, 2003

Vocal works

  • Two songs of Robert Burns ( translated by Samuil Marshak ) for mezzo - soprano and piano, 1964, revised 2002
  • Six Poems by Sergei Gorodetsky for high voice and piano, 1970
  • Gleam of Light ( text by Boris Pasternak ) for medium high voice and piano, 1988
  • Anticipation ( text by Rainer Maria Rilke ) for high voice, 2 clarinets, viola, cello and double bass, 1993
  • Four Songs on Words by P.B. Shelley for soprano and string quartet, 1994
  • Three Songs on Words by Osip Mandelstam for high voice, flute, clarinet and string quartet, 1994
  • Day and Night ( text by Fyodor Tjuttschew ) for high voice, recorder and string quartet, 2000
  • The Miller 's Daughter ( text of an English folk song ) for soprano, clarinet and percussion, 2001

Piano

  • Silhouettes, 1973
  • Sonatina, 1974, revised 2002
  • Children's Album, 1975, revised 1995

Organ

  • Confession, 1993, revised 2000

Film scores

  • Privet s fronta (1983) ( TV) Привет с фронта "Letter from the Front"
  • Tayna zemli (1985 ) Тайна земли "The secret of the earth"
  • Karusel na bazarnoy ploshchadi (1986 ) Карусель на базарной площади " carousel in the bazaar place "
  • Pro lyubov, druzhbu i sud'bu (1987 ) Про любовь, дружбу и судьбу " From love, friendship and fate "
  • Amulanga (1987)
  • Korabl (1988 ) Корабль "The Ship "
  • Mest (1989 ) Месть "Revenge " (International / English title: "The red flute" )
  • Karyer (1990 ) Карьер "sandbox"
  • Garem Stepana Guslyakova (1990 ) Гарем Степана Гуслякова " Stepan Ghusliakov 's Harem"
  • Tsareubiytsa (1991 ) Цареубийца " The Assassin of the Tsar "
  • Lyuk (1991 ) Люк " The Hatch "
  • Serebryannye Lozhki (1991 ) Серебряные Ложки " Silver Spoons "
  • Sumashedshaya Liubov (1992 ) Сумасшедшая Любовь " Crazy Love "

Discography

  • Romantic Messages. Valeri Popov, bassoon; Valeri Polyanski / Moscow Conservatory Orchestra ( Melodiya, 1980) ( LP)
  • Four Versions. Valeri Popov, bassoon; Vladimir Ponkin / Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble ( Mezhdunarodnaya Kniga: MK 417 036, 1991)
  • Why? Alexey Vinogradov / Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble ( Olympia OCD 283, 1991)
  • Trio. Valeri Popov, bassoon; Natalia Sawinowa, cello; Alexander Suvorov, Percussion ( Olympia OCD 297, 1993)
  • Three Songs on Words by Osip Mandelstam. Katia Kichigina, soprano; Oxalys Ensemble ( Explicit! Records: E 99004, 2000! )
  • Ex Animo; Sinfonia da Camera No.. 5; High -Cross Symphony. Vladimir Ponkin / Rachmaninov Symphony Orchestra ( Sojuz: CD0001, 2003)
  • Four Songs on Words by P.B. Shelley. Jelena Wassiliewa, soprano; Sine Nomine ( Claves CD 50-2303, 2003)
  • Miniature Partita. Filip Davidse, saxophone; Naomi Tamura, piano in " The Soviet Saxophone " ( Opus 35: OP3501, 2008)

Bibliography

  • Holopowa, Valentina: Secrets of the Moscow School Composition in Vladislav Shoot 's " Pure Music " in: " Ex oriente ... III ": Eight Composers from the former USSR, edited by V. Tsenowa (. Studia musicologica Slavica, vol 31 ) (Berlin: Ernst Kuhn, 1997), ISBN 3-928864-92-0
  • Lobanowa, Marina: Musical Styla and Genre: History and Modernity (Amsterdam: Harwood Academic Publishers, 2000), pp. 167-9.
  • McBurney, Gerard: " Vladislav Shoot ," The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians edited by S. Sadie and J. Tyrrell (London: Macmillan, 2001), vol. 23, pp. 275-6.
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