Maxim Shalygin “Todos los fuegos el fuego“ [excerpt]

S I M I L A R chapter II [excerpt: VIII. Endless Mordent] Spotify [] Hardcopy CD [] Composer & Conductor - Maxim Shalygin Performers - Amstel Quartet & Keuris Quartet Audio recording and editing by Wijnand de Groot & Dmitry Ganushevich Video recording and editing by ConcertoMedia Commissioner: Dag in de Branding and November music festivals with financial support of the Fonds Podiumkunsten & Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst ________________________________________________________________________________________ Reviews: “Endlessly rising clusters, pulsing tone tapestries in a minimalistic cut, poetic-melodic intermezzi, and a quasi-orthodox hymn running aground in a quarter-tone yowl. Assisted by the phenomenally playing Keuris and Amstel Quartets, [Maxim Shalygin] moulded it all into a perfectly logical, resolute discourse: There’s no other way than this.” — Joep Christenhusz, NRC (The Best Classical Music of 2019) “Devastating. Breathtaking. […] The music was