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The Invisible Link

by Maya Fridman

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This album discusses the invisible connection between Alfred Schnittke, Pēteris Vasks and Arvo Pärt, and my personal connection with them. It explores three pieces, each written approximately at the end of the 1970s, during the period of the Soviet Union.

History always creates an imprint on the composers’ output. However, apart from a possible historical link between Schnittke, Vasks and Pärt one might imagine, I felt something more than that. In these three pieces, I felt a sense of timelessness and an urge for an ultimate truth, to be explored through a juxtaposition of extreme emotions, and found in the musical representation of silence.

When I heard Schnittke’s Sonata for Cello and Piano for the very first time, I envisioned an endless circle of birth and death, with a quick disastrous gallop of life in between. This sonata has had a deep and transformative influence on me, and it epitomized to me what I was looking for in music: the experience of catharsis.

To me, the music of Vasks has a certain resolute force of veracity as told straight from the heart, a truth that can only be found through investigating the biggest opposites: peace through unrest, light through darkness. The Book, in its two movements, is about one’s voice emerging and elevating above the turmoil of one’s psychological reality.

Fratres feels to me like two brothers going through life, side by side. One frantically and emotionally trying to grasp the secrets of life and death, the other ever so still and stable, providing a frame of reason for his sibling. One brother as the instant, the other portraying eternity, and the two of them represent the perpetual struggle within oneself.

The Invisible Link is not only about the invisible connection between Alfred Schnittke, Pēteris Vasks, and Arvo Pärt, or about the relationship between the three pieces. It is about the invisible link connecting the purest and most extreme of emotions, with the everlasting stillness of time itself.

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released April 1, 2015

Recording & Mastering: Brendon Heinst
Assistant Engineering: Luuk Meijssen
Piano Tuning: Michiel Strategier
Cover Photography & Artwork: Brendon Heinst
Booklet Photography: Nicky Regelink & Kees Stravers
Liner Notes: Maya Fridman & Brendon Heinst

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Maya Fridman Utrecht, Netherlands

Born on November 7th, 1989 in Moscow, Russia, Maya Fridman is a talented young cellist residing in The Netherlands.

” Maya graduated with the highest honours from the Conservatory of Amsterdam. Her graduation recital was lauded for its original programming – thrilling from the beginning to the end, and impeccably executed. ”

Michaël Neuburger / Cello Biennale
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