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| Dwight POUNDS, Requiem Recording Review, 2011 | |||||||
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Requiem “The Holocaust” is not music for the faint of heart. The listener is drawn inexorably into the unfolding tragedy... Pigovat runs a stylistic gamut from tonal to expressionistic with hints of Berg and Shostakovich as he gradually unfolds his nightmare. Though instrumental throughout, there are times one can hear “Re—qui-em” among the many busy layers of musical texture. Read more... |
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| Roman KOFMAN, Ukrainian daily newspaper “The Day”, 9 October 2001 | |||||||
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I'm sure that the Holocaust Requeim has a great future. Boris Pigovat's composition is very sophisticated, but isn't flowery of the pretentious. It is simple but not primitive, it is frank and heartfelt, an outstanding work. Read more... |
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| Donald MAURICE BYU USA, 2 March 2009 | |||||||
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I have to tell myself I can't cry, I got to keep playing... Read more... |
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| John BUTTON The DOMINION POST, NZ, 11 November 2008 | |||||||
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The Music is harrowing and tense, and very Russian in sound. Echoes of contemporary composers such as Denisov, Kanchelli and Gubaidulina can be heard, as well as the inexorable thread of Shostakovich in the Dies Irae, but the voice of the composer remains highly individual. Balancing the violence, anger and tension is the conciliatory beauty of the Lux Eterna that rounds out a work of deeply felt power. Read more... |
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| Howard Smith, MV Daily, November 2008 | |||||||
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Using purely orchestral forces this 46-minute symphonic-concerto encompasses ear-splitting anguish, horror and confusion -- tolling tintinnabulations mark the outset of unspeakable atrocities while abject grief is heightened by sonorous lamentations of the solo viola; a role of unusually formidable demands. Read more... |
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| Garth WILSHERE, Capital Times, NZ, December 2008 | |||||||
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Pigovat's music is evocative and distuibing in its depiction of the Holocaust. With styles reminiscent of other Russian composers, including the rich melancholy of Shostakovich the compositional style is still distinctly Pigovat's own. Intense and strongly assured it is a life-affirming piece that makes a telling statemen with subtlety. Read more... |
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| Donald MAURICE & Marc TADDEI, Radio New Zealand, NZ, 6 November 2008 | |||||||
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Online Interview, Duration: ca. 16 minutes Listen... |
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| SONG OF THE SEA | ||||||
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2005 Poem for Symphonic Wind Band |
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Dennis L. JOHNSON, Past President, WASBE Artistic Director - World Projects, Washington DC Director of Bands and Orchestra Murray State University |
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| Boris Pigovat is a bright, fresh voice in the world of wind band composition. His “Song of the Sea” is an original tone poem written for myself and the Murray State University Symphonic Wind Ensemble and was premiered in a special performance in Carnegie Hall on March 29 of 2005. This dramatic work captures the beauty and majesty of the open sea as well as its darker and more ominous mood during a ferocious storm. The work carries the listener on a journey through calm and tempest and ends with a grandios climax that rivals any of the great programmatic composers of this or any era. The wind ensemble and I thoroughly enjoyed the preparation and performance of this masterful work as did the exhilarated crowd in Carnegie Hall that called us back three times. “Song of the Sea” deserves to be on all collegiate and (technically proficient) high school band programs throughout the world. It is a masterpiece for wind band. | ||||||
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| WIND OF YEMEN | ||||||
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2000 Picture for Symphonic Wind Band |
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Tim REYNISH, prestigious staff of the International Chamber Music Studio at the Royal Northern College of Music July 2009, WASBE |
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This work was a great success in its recent German premiere, conducted by Michael Kumnmer, and I have no doubt that The Winds of Yemen will join it as a fine example of this composer’s music. Read more... |
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WASBE 2009 Conference Blog July 2009, WASBE |
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The highlight of the concert for this writer was Boris Pigovat’s Wind of Yemen (2000), a powerful work that begins to set its atmospheric fabric with alternating solo and pairs of flutes and oboe... Read more... |
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| NAXOS CD "HOLOCAUST REQUIEM / POEM OF DAWN" | ||||||
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2015 Anna SEROVA (Viola) Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra Nicola GUERINI (Conductor) Read more... |
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| Remy Franck, Pizzicato, October 2015 | ||||||
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In spite of the more dramatic Dies Irae, Boris Pigovat’s Holocaust Requiem is a music of striking serenity, beauty and depth... Read more... |
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| Bob McQuiston, Classical Lost and Found, August 2015 | ||||||
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Violist Anna Serova is spectacular, delivering exceptionally confident, technically brilliant, sensitive renditions of Pigovat’s heartfelt scores... Read more... |
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| Joel Kovacik, Top Amazon Reviews, August 2015 | ||||||
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One Of The Most Exquisitely Beautiful Pieces Ever Written... Read more... |
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| Bruce Reader, The Classical Reviewer, July 2015 | ||||||
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Pigovat is a remarkably fine orchestrator. Poem of Dawn makes a fine contrast to the melancholy, passion and tragedy of the Requiem. Nevertheless it is the very fine Holocaust Requiem that I will return to most often. Anna Serova proves to be a first class soloist with the Croatian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra under Nicola Guerini turning in first class performances... Read more... |
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| Robin Freidman, Top Amazon Reviews, July 2015 | ||||||
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A large and increasing body of music and literature offers remembrances of the Holocaust. The challenge such music and literature faces is to be emotionally compelling and fresh without relying upon clich?s. The Holocaust Requiem by Boris Pigovat amply succeeds as a commemoration of the Holocaust and as a work of music... Read more... |
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| David Danton, David's Review Corner, July 2015 | ||||||
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Nowadays too neatly wrapped up as the Holocaust, Pigovat could not find a text that he felt would communicate those horrors for his 1995 score, words unable to picture the suffering and death that occurred at Babi Yar, a brutal event that coincided with the extended massacre being executed by the Germans. Instead he has used a solo viola to ‘sing’ of grief, each of the four movements headed by the parts of the Latin Mass... Read more... |
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Holocaust Requiem
Poem of Dawn
Poem of Dawn