The title of this U.S. release does not give you much of an idea of what it contains. "Soviet Piano Music" would have been a better descriptor; the tracks by Arvo Pärt and Kara Karayev (also known as Gara Garayev), more than half the total, are not Russian. Nor is the program a general selection of the sort that the title 20th Century Russian Piano Music might imply, but rather one focused on a specific facet of Soviet music: the interest on various composers' part in the keyboard prelude and other forms whose ancestry goes ...
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The title of this U.S. release does not give you much of an idea of what it contains. "Soviet Piano Music" would have been a better descriptor; the tracks by Arvo Pärt and Kara Karayev (also known as Gara Garayev), more than half the total, are not Russian. Nor is the program a general selection of the sort that the title 20th Century Russian Piano Music might imply, but rather one focused on a specific facet of Soviet music: the interest on various composers' part in the keyboard prelude and other forms whose ancestry goes back to the Baroque era. All this said, it's pretty interesting that pianist Vladimir Yurigin-Klevke finds this common thread in the works of quite a diverse set of composers. Even considering that the Pärt Partita, composed in 1965, is not representative of his later and better-known minimalist style, these are still composers who are not often programmed together, and it's intriguing to hear them juxtaposed. In Sofia Gubaidulina's Ciaconna of 1961, the Baroque ground bass device...
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