Choral Works by Rodion Shchedrin. 21st Century

Evgeniya Krivitskaya

Issue № 4 (772) | 2020

Choral Works by Rodion Shchedrin. 21st Century

This article is written in Russian. You can read it here.

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DOI 10.34690/119

Author Evgeniya D. Krivitskaya

Affiliation Tchaikovsky Moscow State Conservatory, Moscow, Russia

Email ekrivitskaia@gmail.com

ORCID

0000-0002-6080-248

Abstract

The article is a review of compositions for a cappella choir, written by Rodion Shchedrin in the 21st century. The works are viewed in chronological order, many of them are inspired by creative relationships with the Chamber Choir of Moscow Conservatory and with its leaders—the founder of the collective Boris Tevlin and his successor Aleksandr Solovyov.

Among the composer’s choral works, there are music on verses by Russian poets—Andrei Voznesensky, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Velimir Khlebnikov, and opuses written on biblical texts—“Count Tolstoy’s Epigraph to the Novel ‘Anna Karenina’”, Mass of Commemoration; the latters can be attributed to the field of sacred music. A number of works are marked by civic pathos (Diptych, “The Last Two Choirs”). In the 2020 scores, created during the pandemic, in self-isolation, the author reflects on the meaning of being (Triptych).

Shchedrin constantly experiments with genres of choral music. A striking example of his ingenuity in the current oeuvre is the “Russian Folk Proverbs”. In the earlier Serenade (2003), the traditional genre is interpreted in an innovative way: the text of the work is entirely based on interjections.

Keywords choral music, Russian proverbs, mass, Shchedrin, Voznesensky, Mayakovsky, Khlebnikov

For citation

Krivitskaya, E. D. Choral works by Rodion Shchedrin. 21st century. Muzykal’naya akademiya [Music Academy], no. 4, 2020, pp. 158–171, doi:10.34690/119. (In Russ.)

Choral Works by Rodion Shchedrin. 21st Century

Choral Works by Rodion Shchedrin. 21st Century

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