Daniel Hope & Alexey Botvinov

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Daniel Hope has been collaborating for eight years with Ukrainian pianist Alexey Botvinov, who serves as Artistic Director of the Odessa Classics Festival, and released an album of the music of Alfred Schnittke with the pianist last fall. For the 2020 festival in Odessa, they had the idea of commissioning a work from Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov, and in his capacity as President of Beethoven-Haus Bonn, Hope suggested the piece be related to Beethoven’s “Pastoral” Symphony in honor of that composer’s 250th anniversary year. The result was Silvestrov’s Pastorales 2020, but because of the pandemic the whole piece has never been performed live. Hope and Botvinov then decided to record an entire album of Silvestrov’s music, and planned a trip to Kyiv in March 2022 for that purpose. The Russian attack intervened, forcing Botvinov to leave the country with his family, and they quickly pivoted to presenting benefit concerts in Germany and recording the Music for Ukraine EP. Silvestrov himself was able to escape the country after Kyiv was bombed, taking refuge in Berlin and finally allowing Hope and Botvinov’s album of his music to come to fruition. As well as the world premiere of Pastorales 2020, the album includes the “Chopin-Augenblicke” from his Zwei Stücke, the three miniatures of 25.X.1893…zum Andenken an P.I. Tschaikowskij, and the Hommage à J.S.B. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

top songs

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Silvestrov

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Music for Ukraine - EP

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Schnittke: Works for Violin and Piano

Music for Ukraine

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Schnittke: Tango (Arr. by Andriy Rakhmanin for Violin and Piano) (From "Agony")

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Silvestrov: Melodies of the Moments - Cycle III: II. Barcarole

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Relax Piano Melody

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Ultra HD Klassik

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Cadences Of Heavenly Peace

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Ultra HD Classical

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Classic For Relaxation

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Concert For Evening Mood

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