Leonid Desyatnikov

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Leonid Arkadievich Desyatnikov (Russian: Леонид Аркадьевич Десятников, born: 16 October 1955, Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian composer who first made a reputation with a number of film scores, then achieving greater fame when his controversial opera The Children of Rosenthal was premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Desyatnikov is a graduate of the Leningrad Conservatory, where he studied composition and instrumentation. Desyatnikov has penned four opera, several cantatas and numerous vocal and instrumental compositions. His principal compositions include: The Children of Rosenthal (an opera in two acts; libretto, Vladimir Sorokin), commissioned by the Bolshoi Theatre; Poor Liza (a chamber opera in one act; libretto, Leonid Desyatnikov, after the novel by Nikolai Karamzin); Gift (a cantata based on the verses of Gavrila Derzhavin); The Leaden Echo (a work for voice(s) and instruments based on the poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins); and The Rite of Winter 1949 (a symphony for chorus, soloists and orchestra). Desyatnikov has been collaborating with Gidon Kremer since 1996 as a composer (Wie der Alte Leiermann...; the chamber version of Sketches to Sunset; Russian Seasons) as well as arranging the works of Astor Piazzolla, including the tango-operita María de Buenos Aires and the tango suite Cuatro estaciones porteñas. Desyatnikov wrote the scores for the films Sunset (1990), Lost in Siberia (1991), Hammer and Sickle (1994), Moscow Nights (Katya Izmailova) (1994), Gisel

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Moscow [Motion Picture Soundtrack]

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The Art of Instrumentation: Homage to Glenn Gould

Desyatnikov: Sketches to Sunset & Russian Seasons

Sketches To Sunset

The Leaden Echo

Leonid Desyatnikov: Songs of Bukovina

Leonid Desyatnikov: Incidental

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"Target" OST (2011)

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Lullabies

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Poets From the East - Evelyn Change Performs Scriabin, Shui-Long, Tabakova, & Desyatnikov

The Russian Seasons

Desyatnikov: Poor Liza

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