Tenor Gábor Bálint and the Babylon Quartet will give the premiere. At a later moment, the work will be recorded and released on all main digital distribution channels such as Spotify, iTunes etc. Maxim Shalygin wrote the work on lyrics provided by the couple, a hymn text by Isaac Watts (1674-1748). The couple looks forward to this premiere at their party. The lyrics express their feelings. A composition like this is a treasure for the future, even for children and grandkids…
We bless the Lord, the just, the good,
Who fills our hearts with joy and food:
Who pours his blessings from the skies,
And loads our days with rich supplies. etc.
Composers in the crosshairs of our attention
"Creativity is an unconscious act of insanity, in a burst of which the truth is born. No matter how beautiful or disgusting it may seem to people far from madness, its value is beyond doubt, both for the author and for those able to sense its invisible beauty. After all, gratitude for endless trials and suffering brings joy and blissful emptiness… Being shocked by music is about pain turning into beauty and getting under your skin, taking away your breath; about everything stopping to move. I want to be scratched inside by sound and experience the fleeting, invisible beauty." - Maxim Shalygin