Title:	The Kingdom of Silence
Duration:	14`
Year of composition:	2003
First performance:	Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra / Peter Eötvös
	Oct 16 2003, Gothenburg Concert Hall
Publisher:	Universal Edition

The mysterious country where we all should go to after our lifetime has many different names, "The Kingdom of Silence" is one of them.

The composition starts as a lullaby where glockenspiel and celesta play a rather simple melody, wrapped in the "echo" of string instruments. Gradually we are sinking into a dream. Different scenes are appearing in a succession, sometimes linked to each other by the same tempi or divided by the sudden change of mood. With the return of the "lullaby", a long chain of events is finished. But the dream itself - does it ever ends?

"The Kingdom of Silence" is written in memoriam of Nikolai Korndorf (1947 - 2001), an extraordinary personality among his generation of Russian composers.

Commissioned by the Gothenburg Art Sounds (GAS) Festival 2003 and Rikskonserter, Sweden.