伊奇莫拉托夫: 一位陌生女人的來信 布希可夫 指揮 白俄羅斯國家室內樂團 Evgeny Bushkov / Ichmouratov: Letter from an Unknown Woman

伊奇莫拉托夫:一位陌生女人的來信/三首中提琴浪漫曲
伊吉尼．布希可夫 指揮
白俄羅斯國家室內樂團

Belarusian State Chamber Orchestra
Evgeny Bushkov

Montreal-based since 1998, Airat Ichmouratov (b. 1973) traces his musical roots back to the dominant culture in his native Tatarstan in Soviet times: ‘It was definitely the Russian school of composers', he says, without rancour.  ‘I'm influenced to this day by Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Mussorgsky, Rachmaninoff, and Tchaikovsky. My own musical style has evolved out of this rich heritage.' There's more. The Volga Tatar-born Russian-Canadian composer learned to play klezmer music while busking, together with his viola-playing wife, as new immigrants on the streets and Metro of Montreal. ‘I've been touring the world for twenty years as a clarinettist with the Montreal band Kleztory and find myself, a Muslim-born musician, playing klezmer. This, too, is now a distinctive part of my musical language.'