The premise implied by the title and chronological programming of this disc, Preludes to a Revolution -- that the sound of Russian piano music in the early twentieth century is connected to the political history of the country at the time -- does not necessarily hold up under close scrutiny. In fact, the liner notes talk more about the influences ...
It's hard to imagine Russian composer Nikolai Roslavets in the mainstream of anything -- he of the sintetakkord, one of several formal composition techniques that emerged in Russia in the wake of Scriabin that was stamped out by the Soviet government circa 1930. An uncompromising voice in experimental music from about 1915 to 1927, Roslavets was ...
The world is discovering the vast corpus of music left behind by Ukrainian composer Nikolai Roslavets, formerly relegated to the status of a non-person by the former Soviet Union. Despite the spotty looking coverage indicated by the titles involved, Naxos'Roslavets: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1, 4 and 6 is a comprehensive survey of his violin and piano ...
EDA's The Life of the Machines (called "Live of the Machines" on the CD's label printing) is an interesting and ambitious program of "mechanistic" piano music composed between 1916 and 1948. Pianist Vladimir Stoupel, based in France, is a frequent participant in the New York Philharmonic's chamber music concerts, Bargemusic performances, the ...
What was a two-disc set with the "old" Arte Nova is two single discs with the "new"; in 1997, this disc was the second in Arte Nova's Russian Futurism Vol. III, paired inexplicably with a disc of music by anti-Futurist Michael Gnesin. With its return, this combination of string quartets by Alexander Mosolov, Nikolai Roslavets, and Lev Knipper -- ...
This disc is a major discovery. How many listeners, even the most dedicated fans of early Soviet composers, can claim to have heard anything by Nikolay Roslavets? A victim of Stalin's life and death culture wars, Roslavets was all but expunged from the historical record after his death in 1944. Only a tiny fraction of his music has been recorded ...
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