DA VINCI PUBLISHINGIson: Echos of the East

Additional information

Artist(s)	Taissa Marchese
Composer(s)	Georgy Sviridov, Ivan Moody, Sergej Rachmaninoff, Sofia Gubaidulina, Vasilije Mokranjac
Edition	Da Vinci Classics
Format	1 Cd
Genre	Instrumental
Instrumentation	Piano
Period	Classical
Publication year	2026

Description

As times change and we move faster to accompany them, our traditions act as standing posts, grounding us and guiding us through the changes, uniting people from different ethnicities in hope of a more balanced future.

This recording combines tradition and ethnic diversity, bringing together works by composers from various cultures whose music resonates with sonic and symbolic mementos rooted in Eastern Christian traditions – such as bell-like rhythmic patterns or chant-inspired melodies –, conjuring an atmosphere of ritual and powerful resonance.

Through these works, this recording becomes a space where past and present meet and transform, where tradition is not preserved as something crystallized, but constantly reimagined within contemporary sound and life.

Composer(s)

Georgy Vasil'yevich Sviridov
(b Fatezh, Kursk Province, 3/16 Dec 1915; d Moscow, 6 Jan 1998). Russian composer, pianist, musical and public figure. After his initial education at the music school in Kursk (1929–32), he studied composition under M.A. Yudin, and piano under Isay Braudo at the Central Music Tekhnikum in Leningrad (1932–6), later transferring to the Leningrad Conservatory (1936–41) where his teachers were Ryazanov and Shostakovich. Sviridov is one of the most significant figures in Russian music of the second half of the 20th century and one of the most popular composers of concert works in post-World War II Russia. His consistent striving towards a distinctively Russian style has made him the leader of a new nationalist movement in his country.

Sergey Rachmaninov: (b Oneg, 20 March/1 April 1873; d Beverly Hills, CA, 28 March 1943). Russian composer, pianist and conductor. He was one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, the last great representative of Russian late Romanticism. The influences of Tchaikovsky, Rimsky-Korsakov and other Russian composers soon gave way to a thoroughly personal idiom, with a pronounced lyrical quality, expressive breadth, structural ingenuity and a palette of rich, distinctive orchestral colours.