Vladimir Genin: PASSACAGLIA IN YELLOW-BLUE Orchestra del Teatro Comunale Bologna / OKSANA LYNIV скачать в хорошем качестве

Vladimir Genin: PASSACAGLIA IN YELLOW-BLUE Orchestra del Teatro Comunale Bologna / OKSANA LYNIV

I am very joyful that my Passacaglia was premiered with the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale Bologna in Auditorium Teatro Manzoni Bologna and Teatro Claudio Abbado Ferrara under the soulful direction of Oksana Lyniv. As is typical for a passacaglia, a repeated eight-bar fixed bass line (basso ostinato) serves as the basis for a sequence of variations in this work. This line is similar to the famous since the Baroque "descending sequence of falling fifths“, but a very distorted one: instead of ordinary fourths and fifths, I use the thirds and fourths, after which unnoticed appears "the cross motif" (Crux fidelis), known from the works of Bach, symbolising suffering and pain. At the same time, there is a touch of blues melancholy in the rhythm and melody of the piece, so it is a "Passacaglia in Blue". The title of the work refers to the colours of the Ukrainian flag: blue like the sky, yellow like the wheat fields, because the mood of this work is deeply connected to the horror and sadness that have been a constant background to my life and work since the beginning of Russian aggression in Ukraine in 2014.