Distant Memories

Genre : Classical

Cataloque: Phasma-Music 094 

UPC: 731093480751

recording and editing Marian Lesiuk ( tracks 1-6)

recording and editing Marcin Kowalczyk (tracks 2-3-5)

recording, editing Volodymyr Punko (track 4)

mastering Grzegorz Stec

recording places: Concert Hall of the Lviv National Philharmonic

Municipal Theatre in Kwidzyn

production management: Iwona Glinka

graphic design: Michail Travlos

Michail Travlos composer 

Iwona Glinka flute-alto flute

Gloria Chamber Choir

Lviv National Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra

Volodymyr Syvokhip conductor 

The sixth album by Michail Travlos is dedicated solely to his own orchestral music, a follow-up to the award-winning albums PROGRESSIONS (ICMA nomination 2018, Global Music Awards, Akademia Music Award, Clouzine International Music Award etc.), NIGHT VISIONS and TWENTY ONE CONCERT STUDIES for piano (Akademia 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, September, 2024, GLOBAL MUSIC AWARD - OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT). 

Michail Travlos’s music characterizes within a modern context, both tonal and melodic. It can be lyrical, aggressive, playful or stringent. His ideas are quite original and engaging on many levels; 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 color, ceaselessly restless, though sometimes playful, so that the performers inhabit those many moods – one senses the orchestra’s conviction and enthusiasm for this music in performing it, which is energetic, fulsome, and highly refined. In this excellent release, soloists, orchestra and conductor work hand-in-glove to produce an outstanding performance.

Further more, since his earlier searches for expressiveness, he has been 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.

 Production details:

01. Overtura Romantica Conteporanea 

for Choir and Symphony Orchestra (1996) 

Two light happenings 

“Concertante” for Flute and String Orchestra (2015) 

02. Sunrise 

03. Sunset 

04. Ulysses’s Adventures 

for Symphony Orchestra (1989)

05. Distant Memories 

for Alto flute and String Orchestra (2012) 

06. Hourglass (Κλεψύδρα) 

for Symphony Orchestra (1976) 

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