AVENTURES COLORISTIQUES

Genre : Classical

Cataloque: Phasma-Music 100

UPC: 731093480812

recording and editing Volodymyr Punko

recorded in February (track 7) and  in October (tracks 1-6), 2025

recording place: Concert Hall of the Lviv National Philharmonic, Ukraine

The texts for the booklet were written by Michail Travlos

production management: Iwona Glinka
graphic design: Michail Travlos

MICHAIL TRAVLOS has been, since his earlier searches for expressiveness, interested in “recycling” some of his original music, adding new expansion elements, so as to give birth to a new musical “child” emanating from its original musical sources. His music characterizes within a modern context, both atonal, tonal and melodic. It can be lyrical, aggressive, playful or stringent. His ideas are original and engaging on many levels; furthermore his idiomatic writing for strings, chamber ensembles or symphony orchestra are very effective. 

The composer brings in an incessant “coloristic” development where melodic figures struggle to have a fully lyrical moment. Some movements are mercurial shifts of mood and colour, ceaselessly restless, though sometimes playful, so that the performers inhabit those many moods – one senses the performer’s conviction and enthusiasm for this music in performing it, which is energetic, fulsome, and highly refined. In this excellent release, soloists, performers and conductor work hand-in-glove to produce an outstanding performance.

The seventh album by Michail Travlos is dedicated solely to his own chamber music (except Aventures coloristiques written for two flutes and string orchestra), a follow-up to the award-winning albums PROGRESSIONS (ICMA nomination 2018, Gold Medal at the Global Music Awards, Academia Music Award, Clouzine International Music Award etc.), NIGHT VISIONS and TWENTY ONE CONCERT STUDIES for piano (Academia Music Awards - Music Award of Excellence 2021, Global Music Award, Clouzine International Music Awards, 2022), PATCHWORKS (Global Music Award - Outstanding Achievement, 2023) GREEK POLISH DREAMSCAPES (Clouzine International Music Awards for the Best Contemporary Classical Album, 2024, Global Music Award - Outstanding Achievement) and DISTANT MEMORIES.

  Production details:

01.  Dialogues for violin and cello (2020)                                                                                

       Petro Titiaiev, violin

       Denys Lytvynenko cello

02. Black – Red for alto flute, clarinet, violin, cello and piano (2009)                                    

       Mykhailo Sosnovskyi, alto flute  

       Taras Hamar, clarinet 

       Petro Titiaiev, violin

       Denys Lytvynenko, cello

       Nataliya Hutsul, piano 

       Roman Kreslenko, conductor

03. Rückkehr for four cellos (1974)                                                                                           

       Denys Lytvynenko, Dmytro Nikolayev, Olha Boichuk, Sofia Okrutna, cello 

       Roman Kreslenko,  conductor 

04. Aeolus for woodwind quintet (2025)                                                                                 

       Volodymyr Lushchenko,  flute • Iryna Tikhonova, oboe

       Yaroslav Zhovnirovych, clarinet • Andrii Tkachuk, bassoon

       Oleksandr Kholodiuk, French horn • Roman Kreslenko, conductor 

The City  for violin, cello and piano (1996)

05. The Old City                                                                                                                               

06. The New City                                                                                                                           

       Petro Titiaiev,  violin • Denys Lytvynenko,  cello, 

       Nataliya Hutsul, piano • Roman Kreslenko, conductor

07.  Aventures Coloristiques for two flutes and string orchestra (2024)                               

       ΔiavloΣ Δuo: Iwona Glinka and Ewelina Zawiślak, flutes

       The Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra

       Roman Kreslenko, conductor

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