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07/11/2005 - Moscow Autumn - Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, Alexei Vinogradov (conductor)
"Death is over. There is no death anymore" - these are the last words of Ivan Ilich in the Tolstoj novel Death of Ivan Ilich. There are two parts in the piece which use similar material. In the first part material is quasi unsystematized, chaotic - in the second there appears an audible system. At the same time - both parts have identical macro-rhythmic organization. In the center there is an explosion, signifying the change of these two states of material. I can't say which part corresponds to life and which - to death. They're just two sides of same...
Dmitri Kourliandski
