Melodies of Love

by YURI KHOLODOV


Formats

Softcover
£13.95
Hardcover
£19.95
Softcover
£13.95

Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 11/03/2016

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 246
ISBN : 9781504982719
Format : Hardcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 246
ISBN : 9781504982733

About the Book

“Love Stories” is the English version of selected stories from the book “Melodies of love” published earlier in Russian by AuthorHouse publisher.

Youthful sensual love. Love passionate. Fleeting love, generated by beauty, loneliness, desire flash. Love universal, idyllic, ennobling. Love and creativity. A parable of love, as motive power of noble fulfillments. Motherly love, related, love - compassion. Love as hope of other, still unknown life. Love in a comic context. All these displays of the feeling, presented to us by the nature, are reflected in realities both former Soviet and emigrant life.

In the presented stories love as though a certain perfect musical instrument from which it is possible to take infinite variety of sounds. The author carefully touches its sensitive strings and forces to sound with inspiration melodies of love so various in spirit.


About the Author

Ukrainian-born violist Yuri Kholodov happily combines the high music professionalism - he is the Prize Winner of the International Chamber Music Competition, People’s Artist of Ukraine, awarded the State T. Shevchenko Prize (the highest recognition for cultural achievement in Ukraine) - and undoubted writing gift. Performing as violist of famous Lysenko string quartet the extensive repertoire, including hundreds of compositions of different styles and epochs, Yuri Kholodov has imbibed all of the richest shades of chamber composers’ heritage. Imaginative world of the prominent artists - Vienna classics, Romantics, the composers of the different national schools - enriched his own artistic world, contributed to his artistic perception of reality, and was reflected in his literature works. His books - “Inness”, 2001, “Solo for viola”, 2006, “Quiet music”, 2010, “Melodies of Love”, 2011, “Savannah Revelations”, 2012, “Revelations of the misanthrope”, 2012,“These strange musicians”, 2013, and his short stories in periodic press, published in Russian, attract readers by their special tune, musical sounding, psychological details, gentle humor, and creative freedom.

Now he lives and continues his performing and writing activities in USA, Savannah, Georgia. His website www.booksofmusicians.info tells about his creative work in details