Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky (born 30 March 1945) is a

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n-born composer, conductor and

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who lives in Switzerland. He is one of the first composers of minimalism (from 1969); "La Belle Musique N.3" (1977) is the first work for

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in the minimalist field. He emigrated to Paris from Moscow in 1974, and now lives in Switzerland. He has collaborated with numerous musical artists, notably with the pianist

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, with whom he has recorded works by

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Selected works

Alexandre Rabinovitch-Barakovsky defined his musical conceptions as <>. Rabinovitch-Barakovsky's main works are all part of a global work-in-progress called "Anthology of Archaic Rituals – In Search of the Center". * "Les mots de Andrei Biely" (1969) cantata * "Le point d'appui trouvé" (1970) chamber music * "Happy end"" (1972) electro-acoustic piece * "La Belle Musique n°2" (1974) chamber music * "Perpetuum mobile?" (1975) amplified violin solo, amplified piano, amplified

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" (+ amplified campanelli) * "Le récit de voyage" (1976) violin, cello, marimba, piano" (dedicated to Alexei Lubimov) * "La Belle Musique n°3" (1977) for orchestra * "Requiem pour une marée noire" (1978) amplified soprano, amplified vibraphone, amplified piano * "Entente cordiale" (1979) amplified piano and orchestra * "Litanies" (1979) string quartet and vibraphone * "Liebliches Lied" (1980) for piano 4 hands * "Musique populaire" (1980) 2 amplified pianos, 2 amplified marimbas, amplified celesta * "Discours sur la délivrance" (1982) amplified cello solo, amplified piano, amplified clavinova, amplified vibraphone * "La belle musique n°4" (1987) for 4 amplified pianos * "Cantique pour Orfeo" (1987) amplified baryton, amplified vibraphone, amplified piano, amplified celesta * "In illo tempore" (1989) sinfonia concertante for 2 amplified pianos and chamber orchestra * "Musique populaire" (1994) 2 amplified pianos and orchestra * "3 Invocations" (1995) string quartet and amplified celesta * " Incantations" (1996) sinfonia concertante for amplified piano (+ amplified celesta) and chamber orchestra * "6 Etats intermédiaires" (1997–98) sinfonia for orchestra, based on the '' Bardo Thödol'' (''Tibetan Book of the Dead'') * "La Triade" (1998) sinfonia concertante for amplified violin and orchestra * " Retour aux sources" (1999) Sinfonia for orchestra" (dedicated to Vladimir Yankilevsky) * "La harpe de David" (1999) sinfonia concertante for amplified cello and orchestra * " The celtic harp" (2000) sinfonia concertante for amplified violin, amplified viola and orchestra * "Die Zeit" (2000) for four amplified instruments: violin, cello, piano, celesta (dedicated to Maria Balkan) * "Le Tryptique" (2000)," sinfonia for orchestra * "Les trois Gunas" (2001) for amplified flute, amplified clarinet, amplified clavinova, amplified vibrafono+marimba+campanelli" (1 percussionist), amplified piano * "Jiao" (2004) for 11 strings, amplified celesta, amplified vibraphone, amplified clavinova * "Maithuna" (2005) sinfonia concertante for orchestra * "Les Chants-Spirales" (2006) for amplified vibraphone solo, amplified clavinova, amplified piano * "3 Manas" (2009) for amplified piano or amplified electric piano. (dedicated to HJ Lim) * "Opus Magnum" (2010) Sinfonia concertante for chamber orchestra in three movements : Nigredo, Albedo, Rubedo * "Alchera" (Dreaming, Dreamtime, 2012) for amplified cello and orchestra. Dedicated to Sir Roger Norrington. * "The Source Field"for orchestra in two movements (1. Space and Time 2. Time and Space), based on the book "The Source Field" by David Wilcock * "La Belle Musique N.5-Dhikr" (2014) for vibraphone, piano and string quartet.

Selected Discography

* ''Terza Pratica'', Box Set CDs 2012 VDE GALLO, Switzerland * ''Tantric Coupling'', 2006 MEGADISC Classics, Belgium MDC 7802 * ''Pura Cosa Mentale'', 2004 MEGADISC Classics, Belgium MDC 7812/11 * ''Die Zeit'', 2001 MEGADISC Classics, Belgium MDC 7822 * ''La Triade'', 2000 DORON Music, Switzerland DRC 3033 * ''Incantations'', 1999 MEGADISC Classics, Belgium MDC 7831 * ''An Introduction to Alexandre Rabinovitch'', 1996 MEGADISC Classics, Belgium MDC 7846 * ''Alexandre Rabinovitch Oeuvres pour Piano'', 1994 VALOIS-Naive, France V 4694 * ''Pourquoi je suis si sentimental'', Alexei Lubimov, 1995 "BIS"

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rabinovitch-Barakovsky, Alexandre Living people 1945 births Russian composers Russian male composers Swiss composers Swiss male composers Swiss Jews Russian Jews Swiss people of Russian-Jewish descent Soviet emigrants to Switzerland Jewish classical pianists Male classical pianists 21st-century classical pianists 21st-century Russian male musicians