female singer and piano (1981) CD Megadisc MDC 7844: Tatjana Melentieva (soprano), Oleg Malov (piano) Agnus Dei for four instruments a cappella (1985) CD Megadisc 7808/07: Ensemble Musiques Nouvelles God, ode after Dershavin for chorus and children's chorus (1985) Litany I for orchestra (1988) Litany II for orchestra (1988) Through the Rainbow of Unvoluntary Tears for soprano and cello (1988) The Offer for a chorus of string instruments (1991) Svete Tikhiy (O Gladsome Light), song of the Most Holy Theotokos for Tatjana Melentieva (1991) CD ECM New Series 1763: Tatiana Melentieva (soprano), Andrei Siegle (sampler) Yet again on the Hypothesis (A Dialogue with J.S. Bach Prelude and Fugue B minor from Well Tempered Piano) for soloistic instrumental ensemble (1991–1992) In any Forgetting of Exhaustion, postludium to the memory of M.G. Orlovski for chamber orchestra (1992) Postludium for soprano and piano) CD Megadisc MDC 7855: Tatjana Melentieva (soprano), Oleg Malov (piano) The Jacob's Ladder, glossolalia of Thirteen for chorus (1992) The Eighth Chapter, canticum canticorum for choruses and cello (1993) In Air Clear and Unseen, stanzas with Tyutchev for piano and string quartet (1994) CD ECM New Series 1763: Keller Quartet, Oleg Malov (piano) Lux Aeterna for two cellos and psalm singers (1998) Scarry March for soprano and piano CD Megadisc MDC 7855: Tatjana Melentieva (soprano), Oleg Malov (piano) Prayer to the Holy Spirit for soprano and piano CD Megadisc MDC 7855: Tatjana Melentieva (soprano), Oleg Malov (piano) Alice in Wonderland, opera (2001) EF and the Three Calling Cards of the Poet, string trio: Joachim Roewer, Elizabeth Cooney and Elizabeth Wilson world premiere in Ireland (2009) O Heavenly King, the first recording of the version for string quartet, piano/celeste and soprano features on the Louth Contemporary Music CD A Place Between (2009) Notes References Svetlana Savenko: The magic of Alexander Knaifel’s message; also: List of Alexander Knaifel’s principal works. In "Ex oriente...III" Eight Composers from the former USSR Philip Gershkovich, Boris Tishchenko, Leonid Grabovsky, Alexander Knaifel, Vladislav Shoot, Alexander Vustin, Alexander Raskatov, Sergei Pavlenko. Edited by Valeria Tsenova. English edition only (studia slavica musicologica, Bd. 31). Verlag Ernst Kuhn – Berlin ; Tara Wilson: 'Russian Post-Minimalist Music: A Semiological Investigation into the Narrative Approaches employed by Alexander Knaifel between 1978 and 1994' (PhD Thesis: Goldsmiths, University of London, 2015). External links ECM Biography Alexander Knaifel : A Composer Documentary Trailer by Jorge Rubiera Living people 1943 births Russian opera composers Male