Talk:Georgy Sviridov

Canticles and Prayers?
I came across an album on Spotify sung by the Latvian Radio Choir called Canticles and Prayers. There is no mention of that here, and in the Spotify track list, severl of them say "unknown artist". I'm unclear on whether these are original artists, or if Sviridov wrote most of this, or if he conducted the choir, or what. Does anyone have more information on this? Also, is there more on his other work in sacred music? It is incredible, and I've never heard of Sviridov before. This page does not say much about his sacred works, so it would be great if someone who knows more could write this up. JECompton (talk) 15:10, 9 April 2019 (UTC)

Georgy Sviridov’s Canticles and Prayers is considered by many as one of the most important works in Russian sacred music. In this new recording the Latvian Radio Choir under Sigvards Klava offers impressive renditions of music from this collection by the Russian master. Sviridov, a pupil of Shostakovich, began writing religious works in 1969. Since then these works have come to form an important part of his oeuvre. In the 1980s Sviridov had several projects to write a liturgy or a mass. In the end, the sketches of his sacred music came to form a cycle titled Canticles and Prayers. The work was created at a turning point in the history of Russia, the perestroika years that ended in the collapse of the Soviet state. The composer was keenly affected by the events of those years, building a monument to his era. The main body of Canticles and Prayers was assembled between 1988 and 1992. In September 1997, Sviridov selected the versions he thought best, approving the final order for the first three parts and making the final edits to the score. This work remained incomplete at the time of his death in 1998. Canticles and Prayers was thus Sviridov’s last work. The recording also includes the chorus The Red Easter based on a cycle of Easter hymns. -- 94.135.133.72 (talk) 23:02, 9 November 2019 (UTC)

Copyright Infringement incident regarding Hideo Kojima and Metal Gear Solid series...
Source of Info:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTcNUoxCmHI

If anyone can shed some light on this, please add any info you know...

Mimeblade (talk) 19:43, 19 January 2008 (UTC)

I have removed the following insertion into the list of Sviridov's musical works:


 * "The Winter Road," for Pushkin's verse "Metel," 1974; would have some minor notoriety shortly before the release of Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops after it was found to be quite similar to the Metal Gear Solid main theme (which was subsequently removed from future Metal Gear Solid games and musical collections).

Firstly, it contains errors and inaccuracies (the piece is a part of the suite already listed, "Metel'" is not a verse, etc). Moreover, Sviridov's list of works seems to be the wrong place to discuss plagiarism allegations against a different party. I personally feel this material should rather go into the game's own article, and written in a way which makes it clear that Sviridov's piece was the original one. Arcfrk (talk) 11:51, 16 August 2008 (UTC)


 * Certainly, there was never any actual alligation of plagiarism, except by the guy who posted the Youtube video. Kojima seems more amused that anything else, and most importantly he's not actually a composer on any of the Metal Gear games. Tappy produced the MGS Main Theme, and Gregson-Williams and Hibino included it on some of their tracks on the later games. That Kojima himself is the alleged plagiarist says a lot about the seriousness of this. There wasn't any "notoreity" either. 192.101.108.250 (talk) 20:01, 2 September 2008 (UTC)

I'm not confident this issue should be dropped so cavalierly. The allegation of plagiarism has been much-discussed on the internet. Moreover, while this is original research and thus not worthy of the article, the fact that Metal Gear Solid 4 completely omitted the hitherto-iconic theme is rather telling and speaks for itself - the obvious conclusion is that the mere implication was enough to scare them off. I think this is worth scouring the web to find sources for. The issue is certainly notable, at any rate. Asasa64 (talk) 09:24, 2 April 2012 (UTC)