Elena Firsova - Selected Works

Selected Works

• Suite for viola solo, Op. 2 (1967)
• A Feast in Time of Plague, chamber opera after Alexander Pushkin (1973)
• Cello Concerto No.1 (1973)
• Petrarch’s Sonnets (translated by Osip Mandelstam) for voice and ensemble (1976)
• Chamber Concerto No. 1 for flute and strings (1978)
• The Night for voice and saxophone quartet (Boris Pasternak, 1978)
• Tristia, cantata for voice and chamber orchestra (Mandelstam, 1979)
• Three Poems of Osip Mandelstam, for voice and piano (1980)
• Misterioso (String Quartet No. 3, 1980)
• Shakespeare’s Sonnets for voice and organ (or saxophone quartet, 1981)
• Chamber Concerto No. 2 (Cello Concerto No. 2, 1982)
• The Stone, cantata for voice and orchestra (Mandelstam, 1983)
• Violin Concerto No. 2 (1983)
• Earthly Life, chamber cantata for soprano and ensemble (Mandelstam, 1984)
• Chamber Concerto No.3 (Piano Concerto No. 1, 1985)
• Music for 12 for ensemble (1986)
• Forest walks, cantata for soprano and ensemble (Mandelstam, 1987)
• Chamber Concerto No. 4 - for horn and ensemble (1987)
• Augury for chorus and orchestra (William Blake 1988)
• Amoroso (String Quartet No. 4, 1989)
• Nostalgia for orchestra (1989)
• Stygian Song for soprano and chamber ensemble (Mandelstam, 1989)
• Odyssey for 7 players (1990)
• The Nightingale and the Rose, chamber opera (Oscar Wilde/Christina Rossetti, 1991)
• Seashell for soprano and ensemble (Mandelstam, 1991)
• Whirlpool for voice, flute and percussion (Mandelstam, 1991)
• Silentium for voice and string quartet (Mandelstam, 1991)
• Secret Way for voice and orchestra (Mandelstam, 1992)
• Distance for voice, clarinet and string quartet (Marina Tsvetaeva, 1992)
• Lagrimoso, (String Quartet No. 5, 1992)
• Cassandra, for orchestra (1992)
• Insomnia, for four singers (Pushkin, 1993)
• Before the Thunderstorm, cantata for soprano and ensemble (Mandelstam, 1994)
• String Quartet No. 6 (1994)
• Compassione (String Quartet No. 7, 1995)
• The Stone Guest (String Quartet No. 8, 1995)
• No, it is not a Migraine for baritone and piano (Mandelstam, 1995)
• Chamber Concerto No. 5 (Cello Concerto No. 3, 1996)
• The Door is Closed (String Quartet No. 9, 1996)
• Chamber Concerto No. 6 (Piano Concerto No. 2, 1996)
• The River of Time for chorus and chamber orchestra in memory of Edison Denisov (Gavrila Derzhavin, 1997)
• La malinconia (String Quartet No. 10, 1998)
• Captivity for wind orchestra (1998)
• Leaving for string orchestra (1998)
• The Scent of Absence for bass, flute and harp (Oleg Prokofiev, 1998)
• Das erste ist vergangen (Christushymnus 2000) (The Former Things are Passed Away) for soprano, bass, mixed choir, and chamber orchestra (Franz Kafka, Bible, etc., 1999)
• Requiem for soprano, chorus and orchestra (Anna Akhmatova, 2001)
• Winter Songs for soprano and cello (Mandelstam, 2003)
• The Garden of Dreams (Homage to Dmitri Shostakovich) for orchestra (2004)
• Farewell (String Quartet No.12, 2005)
• Black Bells for piano and ensemble (2005)
• For Slava" for solo cello (2007)
• Purgatorio (String Quartet No.11, completed in 2008)