Homer (?) ballet suite

[semloh]

I have a file which I've labeled "Homer - ballet suite" but it has no other identifying data! It's a late 20thC orchestral piece, lasting 24 minutes, building to a big, percussive finale, ending with an ethereal tinkling glockenspiel receding into the distance. I've had no success in searching the web for further information (not helped by the Simpsons-related search results!). I would upload it for you to listen to but I have no idea where the file came from originally.... it sounds like it's from an LP or CD, so could be commercially availble.

I think we can be fairly sure that it's composer falls into the 'unsung' category!

Any ideas, anyone, please? 

[Mark Thomas]

I don't see why you shouldn't upload a couple of short extracts (say a couple of minutes apiece), just to give a flavour of the work.

[semloh]

I don't see why you shouldn't upload a couple of short extracts (say a couple of minutes apiece), just to give a flavour of the work.

Thanks, Mark.  Problem is that I don't know how to cut bits from an mp3.   I have several programmes on my computer which might do it, but have never worked it out! Pathetic, I know! 

I'll experiment, and upload if I'm successful. 

[Mark Thomas]

Okey dokey.

[semloh]

Success! Herewith the opening few minutes, and final five minutes of the 24 min. piece. It hardly sounds like a ballet to me, but that's what I labelled it!

http://www.mediafire.com/?qc90v5fzdbtgz

Any suggestions as to its identity will be gratefully received! 

[JollyRoger]

Perhaps I have the piece , I do not have the conductor.

Stikhin, Eugene  - Suite from Homer
Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Yuri Silantiev

[JollyRoger]

Sorry, forgot this:

Stikhin, Eugene(1932 )
My copy was originally mistitled as GOMER, it is in 6 mvts and was either written or recorded in 1982.

Very gifted composer, you can hear Stikhin's piano concerto here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJm8u3GPH4A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWKy9pbj6jg&feature=related

and there is also this lovely work:
Stikhin, Eugene  - Images of the waltz, choreographic poem
Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Yuri Silantiev

[JollyRoger]

more about HOMER, IMHO it is an inspired work:
Suite consists of six parts: 1 - prediction. 2 - The monologue of the fallen. 3 - Wrath of the tyrant. 4 - Recognition. 5 - Meeting in the garden. 6 - The Poet and the Tsar. Sorry, I do not have track times.

Libretto of the ballet written on the play by Victor Geraskin "Homer", staged at the Maly Theatre Arts. But the performance was unsucessful.
The plot of the ballet reconstructs episodes in the life of Homer on the basis of his works, and includes the story of the violent glare of the poet.

[semloh]

Thank you, JollyRoger - I am grateful! 

I certainly tried my best to track it down on the web and failed, so maybe it isn't actually commercially available. I'll check again now I know the details, and if it isn't I'll upload the whole piece.

[JollyRoger]

It took a Google search in Russian( Евгений Стихин) to bring up Stikhin's home page.
Please translate from Russ to Eng using Google translator.
Unfortunately, no discography.

http://estikhin.narod.ru/

[semloh]

It took a Google search in Russian( Евгений Стихин) to bring up Stikhin's home page.
Please translate from Russ to Eng using Google translator.
Unfortunately, no discography.

http://estikhin.narod.ru/

Thanks again   

I see that Homer, among many other pieces, is available for download from this site. Pity the biography link isn't working.

[JollyRoger]

Here is a Eugene M. Stikhin bio if you have an interest, apparently he is into popular music:
I would love to find the symphonies..

http://178.218.209.24/kino/composer/sov/40102/bio/
translated:
http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=ru&tl=en&js=n&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=2&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2F178.218.209.24%2Fkino%2Fcomposer%2Fsov%2F40102%2Fbio%2F&act=url

[istopher]

Maybe it was updated, but there is at least a list of works available at http://estikhin.narod.ru/
He also doesn't appear on the list at http://www.russiancomposers.org.uk, assuming his name is translated as Stikhin.

Anyway I liked his PC as put on YT by Tony Tung.