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Milica Djordjevic, #44 - Mali Svitac; Quicksilver; Cvor; Mit

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Composer
Milica Djordjevic
Artist
Chor Des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Format
CD
Label
BR Klassik
Released
Jul 19, 2024
Catalog #
BRK900644
UPC
4035719006445

About

The music of composer Milica Djordjevic, born in Belgrade in 1984, is based on an exuberant and imaginative use of sound. She has full command of the entire arsenal of contemporary sound and performance techniques, which never cease to surprise. She began her composition studies in her native city of Belgrade, where she was already working with electronic music, then went on to Strasbourg and IRCAM in Paris before completing her studies from 2011-2013 in Berlin with Hanspeter Kyburz at the Hochschule fur Musik Hanns Eisler. Her already extensive oeuvre, which is performed by leading international soloists and ensembles, includes pieces for solo instruments, chamber music works in a wide variety of formations, vocal works, and large-scale orchestral compositions. The diversity of her work highlights her versatility and technical virtuosity. Djordjevic has received numerous prestigious prizes and awards for her compositions, including the Belmont Prize for Contemporary Music (2015), the Composition Prize of the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation (2016) and the Claudio Abbado Composition Prize of the Berlin Philharmonic (2020). In Milica Djordjevic's short orchestral work Mali svitac, žestoko ozaren i prestravljen nesnosljivom lepotom (Little firefly, brightly lit and shocked by unbearable beauty), commissioned by the Berlin Philharmonic in 2023, the composer is concerned with "the immense energy it takes to make things glow". Her extended orchestral work Quicksilver was commissioned by musica viva of Bayerischer Rundfunk and premiered on December 16, 2016 by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Peter Rundel in the Herkulessaal of the Munich Residenz. It is precisely the strict limitation of the melodic movement to very few, narrow interval steps that makes it "all the richer and more colourful on the inside". Cvor (Knot) for winds, piano and percussion, a work commissioned for the Donaueschingen Music Festival, briefly but very intensively describes a knot that squeezes and twists and finally bursts. The fourth work on this BR-KLASSIK CD - Mit o ptici (Myth of the Bird) for choir and orchestra - was commissioned by musica viva in 2020 and premiered on October 28, 2022 with the Bavarian Radio Chorus and Symphony Orchestra under the direction

Tracklist 7 tracks

  1. 1 Mali svitac, žestoko ozaren i prestravljen nesnošljivom lepotom (Little Firefly, fiercely illuminated and terrified by unbearable beauty) 04:57
    Track
    1
    Title
    Mali svitac, žestoko ozaren i prestravljen nesnošljivom lepotom (Little Firefly, fiercely illuminated and terrified by unbearable beauty)
    Duration
    04:57
    Composer
    Milica Djordjević
    Ensemble
    Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
    Conductor
    Duncan Ward
  2. 2 Quicksilver 19:23
    Track
    2
    Title
    Quicksilver
    Duration
    19:23
    Composer
    Milica Djordjević
    Ensemble
    Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
    Conductor
    Peter Rundel
  3. 3 Čvor (Knot) 07:07
    Track
    3
    Title
    Čvor (Knot)
    Duration
    07:07
    Composer
    Milica Djordjević
    Ensemble
    Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
    Conductor
    Duncan Ward
  4. 4 I. Poklonio mi se vetar (The wind bowed to me) 04:18
    Track
    4
    Title
    I. Poklonio mi se vetar (The wind bowed to me)
    Duration
    04:18
    Composer
    Milica Djordjević
    Performer
    Christof Hartkopf
    Ensemble
    Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
    Conductor
    Johannes Kalitzke
  5. 5 II. Poznao sam vas, ptico (I recognized you, bird) 04:43
    Track
    5
    Title
    II. Poznao sam vas, ptico (I recognized you, bird)
    Duration
    04:43
    Composer
    Milica Djordjević
    Performer
    Christof Hartkopf
    Ensemble
    Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
    Conductor
    Johannes Kalitzke
  6. 6 III. Nešto nabreklo, ljigavo (Something swollen, skinny) 09:32
    Track
    6
    Title
    III. Nešto nabreklo, ljigavo (Something swollen, skinny)
    Duration
    09:32
    Composer
    Milica Djordjević
    Ensemble
    Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
    Conductor
    Johannes Kalitzke
  7. 7 IV. [Ležao sam uz obalu…] ([I lay by the shore…]) 04:40
    Track
    7
    Title
    IV. [Ležao sam uz obalu…] ([I lay by the shore…])
    Duration
    04:40
    Composer
    Milica Djordjević
    Ensemble
    Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks
    Conductor
    Johannes Kalitzke