Native of St. Petersburg (former Leningrad) A. Danilevsky started composing already as a conservatory student.

As his work was considered officially objectionable, he turned to Early Music and studied at the Scola Cantorum Basiliensis. He is now the artistic director of the Metz based Early Music Ensemble "SYNTAGMA", which is now building an international reputation with its recordings of unknown masterworks from Medieval to Baroque Eras.

Danilevsky resumed his compositional activities in 1995.

Next CDs in early music:

"Mille Mercede" S T Y L E M S

"Gautier d'Epinal. REMEMBRANCE"

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Recent or Favorite Works

NEW: violin - solo for young performers

Piano Solo:

• Sonata 2 (1987)
  in three parts: Sonata-Reminiscenza. In Nikolai Medtner's Memoriam
• Sonata "1985. In Charles Ives memoriam": Mouvement I - - Mouvement II and III are played by the composer
• Le Retour initially written for lute after a Ucrainian popular song
• Prelude from a Piano Suite in G for young virtousi
• Raining on Kopenhagen;
• Sonates I and II;
• Night Music;
• Concerto for two pianos

Other Instruments:

• Sonata I for violin and piano;
• "Revelation" for cello solo that AD considers as his masterpiece
  ed. by "HH-Musikverlag": AD001
• Three Inventions for three melodic instruments
• Ricercars (7 pieces for recorder or flute solo - in print now: Edition Tre Fontane);
• "Tombeau de Messiaen" for organ,
  commissioned for the festival "La Route des Orgues";
• Dolce Suono for two recorders -
  ed. by TRE FONTANE: ETF 2038
• "Antiphones - I" (1997 - in print TRE FONTANE) and II (just finished)
• Senza Titolo
• Organum for string orchestra;
• String Quartets I to X
  

For Voice and Instrumental Ensemble:

• "Lauda", 1996 with Rebecca BAIN, soprano and an ensemble of early instruments.
  S U P E R B !!!
• "Seven Words of Christ"
• Piet&àgrave; for soprano and string quartet, recorder and organ ad libitum;

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