Nearly twenty years have passed since Helene Grimaud first encountered Valentin Silvestrov's 'Silent Songs', and finally she has found a partner to perform these songs with in the sensational young baritone Konstantin Krimmel. The present selection was recorded at a concert in the Turbine Hall on the Stienitzsee just outside Berlin in the summer of 2022, and it was on this occasion that pianist and composer met for the first time. The list of Russian classics, Pushkin, Lermontov, Tyutchev, Baratynsky, Zhukovsky, Yesenin and Mandelstam, is complemented by the Ukrainian poet Shevchenko (in Ukrainian) as well as Silvestrov's beloved English Romantics Keats and Shelley (in Russian translation). The voices of these very different poets here blend together into a new unity, a 'harmony of mysterious power' as a line from the Baratynsky poem by that opens Silent Songs has it.

Disc 1

Track name

Artist

1.Song Can Heal the Ailing Spirit

Konstantin Krimmel/Helene Grimaud

2.There Were Storms and Tempests

Konstantin Krimmel/Helene Grimaud

3.La Belle Dame Sans Merci

Konstantin Krimmel/Helene Grimaud

4.O Melancholy Time! Delight for Eyes!

Konstantin Krimmel/Helene Grimaud

5.Farewell, O World, Farewell, O Earth

Konstantin Krimmel/Helene Grimaud

6.I Will Tell You With Complete Directness

Konstantin Krimmel/Helene Grimaud

7.Here's a Health to Thee, Mary

Konstantin Krimmel/Helene Grimaud

8.Winter Journey

Konstantin Krimmel/Helene Grimaud

9.The Isle

Konstantin Krimmel/Helene Grimaud

Disc 2

Track name

Artist

1.Autumn Song

Konstantin Krimmel/Helene Grimaud

2.Swamps and Marshes

Konstantin Krimmel/Helene Grimaud

3.Winter Evening

Konstantin Krimmel/Helene Grimaud

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