TATYANA SERGEYEVA
1. Concerto for violin, piano, harpsichord and organ
2. Vocal Cycle on verses by Tatiana Cherednichenko
3. Daphne - trio for saxophone, cello and organ
4. Concerto No.2 for piano and orchestra
Tatiana Sergeyva (piano,
organ, harpsichord) all tracks
1. Vladislav Igolinsky (violin), rec Moscow
Conservatoire, 1991
2. Natalia Gorelik-Leonina (mezzo), rec Moscow,
1997
3. Alexey Volkov (sax), Vladimir Tonkha (cello),
rec Moscow Conservatoire, 1995
4. Pavel Kovalenko (trumpet), Urals Academic PO/Dmitry
Liss, rec Moscow Conservatoire, 1996
BOHEME CDBMR 001123
[62.23]
boheme
Sergeyeva as a composer is quite unknown in the West. Her music is contentious,
often aggressive in a gripping but thorny modernistic mode. She favours parataxis
or, if there is a logical flow it is subtle and far from obvious. Here the
composer must be taken to be well served as she plays the piano in all four
pieces.
In the concerto the music proceeds by flea jump seizure lightened by a racing
cimbalom and a dash of Hassidic colour. The music has a sour mystery and
a quiet deep percussive rumble over which a Schnittke-like violin solo sings
a Mephistophelean lament. The organ makes a rather wheezy figure in the fourth
movement. There is a final splenetic section.
The Cherednichenko songs are greatly aided by the light brandy of Natalia
Gorelik-Leonina's wonderful voice. She would make a world-beating Carmen/
The song Lost In the Grass has a Berners-like obliqueness but turns
a strange corner seeming to echo some national anthem! In Roundel the
accompaniment is like manic pianola with Hispanic overtones. The Daphne Trio
deploys a Gothic-inclined organ, another violin serenade and some attacking
work for the saxophone.
The Concerto is the most fractured of all the works. The elements are easy
to identify: chaos, aggression, feral virility, incongruous juxtapositions,
some vexed humour, a touch of parody and ichor-black serenades
This disc is for tougher-souled explorers. If I have given a low star marking
it reflects my failure to connect with this music.
Rob Barnett
bmr@boheme.ru
www.boheme.ru
