Chimes (Gavrilin)

Chimes (Перезвоны - По прочтении В. М. Шукшина) is a Russian-language choral work by composer Valery Gavrilin. The work was written 1978—1982 and premiered in 1984. The texts, inspired after a reading of Vasily Shukshin, are compiled from folk poetry, Albina Shulgina (1936–2009), and Gavrilin himself. The premiere in 1984 was seen as a turning away from European themes to Russian themes in Gavrilin's output. The work was recorded by Melodiya in 1988, with the soloists Natalia Gerasimova, Svetlana Beloklokova, Ludmila Slepneva, Anatoly Lyubimov, and the Moscow Chamber Choir, under Vladimir Minin.