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Efrem Podgaits 70th Anniversary Concert - Russiaby Dr Herbert Scheibenreif Manager of Friedrich Lips Productions |
As part of the Moscow Autumn festival, to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the composer, Efrem Podgaits (picture left), his work “Double Mirror” was performed at a concert for bayan, cello and symphony orchestra in Moscow’s House of Composers on November 29th. Performers were the Radio Orpheus Symphony Orchestra under its conductor Sergey Kondrashev with soloists Friedrich Lips (bayan - picture right) and Alexander Buzlov (cello). “Double Mirror” was written in 2016 at the request of Friedrich Lips. The epigraph to the composition are the following lines from George Eliot’s novel "The Middlemarch": “Like a double mirror, The soul will give birth to rows of beautiful reflections, Forward prolonging them and back.” The award "Pure Sound" for the best audio recording of a work of Russian academic music in the category "Concerto for Solo Instrument and Orchestra", was awarded to the recording of Efrem Podgaits' concerto "Double Mirror" for bayan, cello and symphony orchestra received the award. The recording took place in Moscow’s famous Tchaikovsky Hall on October 4th, 2018, soloist Friedrich Lips. Pure Sound Certificate below |