Vol. 5
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White
Nights Serenades is a major composition for the guitar, composed by Mr.
Korchmar in 1990. The White Nights is a time around the summer solstice when the
prolonged twilights of evening and morning merge into a night full of light.
This is a special time in St. Petersburg when the city does not seem to go to
sleep. The social impact of this time of the year was already well recognized at
the time of Alexander Pushkin whose poem The Bronze Horseman is used by
Korchmar to set the context of the music. The Bronze Horseman is the famous
statue of Peter the Great situated between the St. Isaak cathedral and the Neva
river in St. Petersburg, and widely accepted as a symbol of the city.
Grigori Korchmar appeared as an active creative force in the beginning of the
seventies. He was born in 1947 in a small town of Baltiisk in the Kaliningrad
region. He graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory as a composer and a pianist
simultaneously.
Already
during his student years, he won several national competitions as a performer.
As a composer, pianist, harpsichord player and conductor he became a passionate
promoter and the first performer of a number of contemporary works all over
Russia and also in Europe and United States. His compositions convey a
characteristic union of rational craftsmanship and emotional density of
expression. In his constant longing to restore the link of times, he skillfully
handles stylistic masks of different historical epochs. Main works include three
operas (Newlyweds, 1970; A Story About Boris and Gleb, 1981;
Fedra,1984), several cantatas, chamber vocal-instrumental cycles,
compositions for piano, violin, and various instrumental ensembles.
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