PATHETIC ORATORIO
ORCHESTRAL WORKS from 1959, 1964, 1967, 1972, 1974

In the 21st century, a new history of the 20th century culture shall be written, and its second half will undoubtedly include the name of a great Russian composer Georgy Sviridov. Among the numerous reasons for that are the facts that his creations are perfect, that he did not let the powerful stream of Russian culture of the 19th-20th centuries cease thus naturally continuing the high traditions of Mussorgsky and Rachmaninov, that his life was a part of Russia’s life in the numerous demolitions of its dramatic history of the passing century and that Sviridov was the Personality of enormous scale, knowledge, philosophical comprehension of life, its perspicacious foreseeing.