Raskatov A. Ex oriente lux. Concerto No. 2 for violin and orchestra. Score and solo part

From the author

This is my second concerto for violin and orchestra. The idea to composeit came from Vadim Repin and Andres Mustonen.
Why I gave this title to the concerto?
I afforded myself to quote a famous phrase from St. Matthew’s Gospel for two reasons.
First: the concerto was commissioned to me by Trans-Siberian Art Festival, and for the first time has to be performed in Novosibirsk. So, that fact itself made me to think about East during the working process.
Second: and this is the most important, — culturological aspect. Living for many years in Western Europe, I came to the following conclusion.
Each text, including musical one, has something like two levels of transmission:
   а) information;
   b) expression.
In Western culture informative way of thinking prevails since a long time. Expression is mostly repressed.
On the contrary, in Eastern culture predominates expression as a way of thinking. Information is mostly repressed.
Inflation of informative way of thinking in music became obvious for me.
An overdose of information paradoxically leads us to “misinformation” of a listener.
And I believe, that East as general way of thinking can bring in the development of music a real fresh air, which is so missing now.

Alexander Raskatov