Chimes: Upon Reading V. M. Shukshin () is a choral symphony by Valery Gavrilin. It was composed between 1978 and 1982, and premiered in 1984. The texts, inspired after a reading of Vasily Shukshin, are compiled from folk poetry, Albina Shulgina, and Gavrilin himself. The premiere in 1984 was seen as a turning away from European themes to Russian themes in Gavrilin's output.Solomon Volkov - St Petersburg: A Cultural History 2010 - Page 546 1451603150 "A sensation was caused by the premiere in Petersburg of Bell Chimes, a nationalistic "symphony-ritual" (as the composer called it) by Valery Gavrilin, a follower of Georgy Sviridov, a leading Slavophile musician (and former student of Shostakovich) and composer of the Petersburg Songs." The work was recorded by Melodiya in 1988, with the soloists Natalia Gerasimova, Svetlana Beloklokova, Ludmila Slepneva, Anatoly Lyubimov, and the Moscow Chamber Choir, conducted by .
Instrumentation The instrumentation for Chimes is as follows:
Woodwind Oboe
Percussion Timpani Triangle Snare drum Whip Cymbals Bass drum Tam-tam Tubular bells
Voices Soprano solo Tenor solo Speaker (male voice) SATB choir (sopranos dived into two sections)
Movements
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