What a fantastic and moving music! With Boronin, Glazunov and Ippolitov-Ivanov I definitely got stuck in Russian contemporary classical music. What a pleasure!
There is a striking similarity between the main theme of this suite and the opening chord progression of Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony. It was almost seen as a compliment when another Russian composer borrowed sketches from one of his compatriots. There was never any quarrels about copyright. It's a known fact that Balakirev, ( considered the father of the Russian Romantic Movement and leader of the ' big 5 ' , regularly donated musical phrases to both Tchaikovsky and Rimsky-Korsakov.
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I see a number of people asking why he is not better known. I think one of the reasons is that unlike the great 19th century composers so many of us think of when we think "Great Russian composers", he survived into the Soviet era, even winning awards from the State. But winning awards from the Soviet State made you automatically suspect in the West. Especially during the 30s, when the great purges started. I am sure it did not help that he wrote "Voroshilov's March", either:(
+SpectatorAlius Aside from this, the Soviet era produced some of the finest composers of the 20th century. It's a shame that the ones who more or less got along with the authorities are underappreciated in the West (as if every good composer in history was a political dissident!). Seems like an inane reason to keep an artist under the radar. Similarly, Soviet ballet dancers who defected are much better acclaimed in the West than the ones who stayed (in my opinion there were much better dancers who stayed).
+nekopls : Check out Rodion Shchedrin and Gyorgy Sviridov! We have to jettison the ideological components and see through to honor the creators under that thumb who most sneakily and thankfully concocted AMAZING content!
великолепно. браво маэстро.интересно. что грузинскую калыбельную Иавнана. Ипполитов-Иванов и Чайковский(арабский танец в Щелкунчике) .подали в разных интерпретациах не тронув начало песни.
"black licorice wrotewait wtf are you talking about, insanity exhaustion collapse etc, its just tones"So sad. I suppose you'd also say "The Swing" by Jean-Honoré Fragonard, c.1767 is just colored paint. What an unimaginative, drab world without affect you choose to live in.
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