Artist: Opus Posth
Album: Vladimir Martynov: Der Abschied
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2020
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24bit, 48 kHz
Duration: 48:32
Total Tracks: 8
Total Size: 437 MB

Tracklist:

1-01. Opus Posth – Der Abschied I (08:20)
1-02. Opus Posth – Der Abschied II (04:18)
1-03. Opus Posth – Der Abschied III (05:25)
1-04. Opus Posth – Der Abschied IV (07:03)
1-05. Opus Posth – Der Abschied V (06:29)
1-06. Opus Posth – Der Abschied VI (06:02)
1-07. Opus Posth – Der Abschied VII (02:36)
1-08. Opus Posth – Der Abschied VIII (08:16)

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Russian Contemporary composer Vladimir Ivanovich Martynov [born 1946], has written at least three string quartets, or works named as such. I believe his early music was in a modern, confrontational style, but after having spent time in a Spiritual Academy to study traditional Russian Orthodox chant, his works seem to have taken on a more spiritual nature.

I regard Der Abschied (The Farewell) composed in 2006, as an essentially spiritually inspired work. Apparently it quotes from some of Mahler’s lieder, but as I never got past his symphonies, I don’t go there, so I can’t comment on that.