Alexander Shchetynsky

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Alexander Shchetynsky (or Shchetinsky) is a Ukrainian composer, born in Kharkiv, Ukraine on 22 June 1960. Since the late 80s, his music has been presented at festivals and concerts in Europe and America, performed by internationally acclaimed artists and ensembles, such as the Arditti String Quartet, the Moscow Helikon-Opera, the Warsaw Philharmonic, the Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble, and Ensemble Wiener Collage. Influenced by the Soviet avant-garde, the Second Viennese School, Olivier Messiaen, and György Ligeti, his style is essentially that of a structuralist, relying on a synthesis of a variety of modernist techniques and exploring, in many of his pieces, a particular musical metaphor. This method explains his reliance on pieces with descriptive titles. The influence of an especially eastern European variety of minimalism (more meditative and less didactic) is also apparent in the carefully worked out relationship between different degrees of sound and silence, the predominance of soft dynamics, and in the smallest details and changes in pitch, timbre and rhythm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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albums

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Shchetynsky: New Sacred Music from Ukraine

Sacred Music from Ukraine

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New Sacred Music from Ukraine

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Alexander Shchetynsky

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Yuri Polubelov. Dedications

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New sacred music from Ukrain

Alexandre Chtchetinsky

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vol.4 - Webern, Shchetinskij, Kasparov, Mirzoev, Meder, Kagel, Runchak

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Sound Chronicle of the Warsaw Autumn 2006, volume 10

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Warsaw 2006 DISC 10 Zimmermann a.o.

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Warsaw Autumn 2006 CD11

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Warsaw Autumn 2006: 49th International Festival of Contemporary Music

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