Valentin Silvestrov – Kitsch music | Antonii Baryshevskyi

Valentin Silvestrov – Kitsch music cycle of five pieces for piano (1977) 00:00 I. Allegro vivance 03:50 II Moderato 08:12 III. Allegretto 11:35 IV. Moderato 14:48 V. Allegretto Piano – Antonii Baryshevskyi Sound and video – Atelier Klang und Raum (Zürich) Live performance at the Lokremise (St. Gallen, Switzerland) Thanks to the organizers – Verein CosmoKultur SG @UCLNnIvvo92m0l1r2OweusMQ ___________________________ Valentin Silvestrov (Valentyn Sylvestrov\ Валентин Сильвестров) – is a Ukrainian composer. Considered one of the leading representatives of the “Kyiv avant-garde“, which came to public attention around 1960 and was violently criticized by the proponents of the conservative Soviet musical aesthetic. Kitsch-Music for piano, Silvestrov claimed that he “regard[ed] the term ‘kitsch’ (weak, rejected, abortive) in an elegiac rather than an ironic sense.” In other words, he hoped that by taking “trivial,” ove