In November 2010, two years after the performance of Requiem at the the Concert of Remembrance for Kristallnacht 1938 at Wellington, a live recording of the concert was released by Atoll. This recording also includes three of my other pieces, featuring my dear friend, Donald Maurice (viola), and other great performers. The CD includes the following pieces:
Prayer for Viola and Piano
Donald Mautice, Viola
Richard Mapp, Piano
Silent Music for Viola and Harp
Donald Maurice, Viola
Carolyn Mills, Harp
Nigun for String Quartet
Dominion String Quartet
Dwight Pounds reviewed the disc in the Journal Of The American Viola Society, he writes:
Completing the album and complementing the Requiem musically and emotionally are three small ensemble compositions, each by Boris Pigovat. The very dramatic and tragic Prayer was written the same year as the Lux Eterna (1994) and in fact shares at least one common theme. Silent Music, known in Hebrew as Nerot Neshama (Candles of the Soul), was written in 1997 in response to a particularly vicious terrorist attack. In Nigun, conceived originally for string orchestra, Pigovat’s goal is to give “expression to the tragic spirit which I feel in traditional Jewish music” by giving homage to the style and spiritual atmosphere of ancient tunes, but without quoting traditional melodies.
In 2012, the Requiem CD was awarded a Supersonic Award by the Luxembourg classical music magazine Pizzicato.
Below are some samples from the CD.
Live recording of "Requiem" (samples)
Donald Maurice, Viola
Mark Taddei, Conductor
Vector Wellington Orchestra
Part 4 “Lux Aeterna” published by Atoll in YouTube
Prayer for Viola and Piano (samples)
Donald Maurice, Viola
Richard Mapp, Piano
Silent Music for Viola and Harp
Donald Maurice, Viola
Carolyn Mills, Harp
Nigun for String Quartet (samples)
Donald Maurice’s solo playing vividly captures the music’s gamut of supplicatory emotion, while Marc Taddei and the orchestra provide an accompaniment richly-mixed with ambiences of faith and trust, doubt and fear.
Wellington, NZ
This is a most extraordinary release. I guarantee it contains music like you’ve never heard before and that will leave you emotionally shattered and physically drained. …the performance and the recording are stunning, impactful, and overwhelming.