Khrennikov's Kremlin

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kyjo

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July 21, 2023, 07:23:20 AM
I won't get into politics, but I'll stick up for Khrennikov by saying that I very much enjoy his 2nd Symphony (and his 1st too, IIRC). Sure, some passages are a bit "socialist realist", but there's enough music of genuine substance to offset that. It's quite a fun and often exciting listen! Then again, I have notoriously bad taste and would usually rather listen to Khrennikov than the austere, depressing late works of Shostakovich or Weinberg... 8)
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Karl Henning

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July 21, 2023, 08:00:11 AM
Quote from: kyjo on July 21, 2023, 07:23:20 AMI won't get into politics, but I'll stick up for Khrennikov by saying that I very much enjoy his 2nd Symphony (and his 1st too, IIRC). Sure, some passages are a bit "socialist realist", but there's enough music of genuine substance to offset that. It's quite a fun and often exciting listen! Then again, I have notoriously bad taste and would usually rather listen to Khrennikov than the austere, depressing late works of Shostakovich or Weinberg... 8)
Well, I'm all for "one likes what one likes." I'll only note (neutrally) that preferring TX's designedly ingratiating music to pieces Shostakovich wrote at a time when (at last) he felt at liberty just to write what he liked (that "artistic evil" which TX built a career around denouncing) has an appearance of adding insult to injury.
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Roy Bland

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November 24, 2023, 07:50:24 AM Last Edit: November 24, 2023, 08:00:34 AM by Roy Bland
Quote from: kyjo on July 21, 2023, 07:23:20 AMI won't get into politics, but I'll stick up for Khrennikov by saying that I very much enjoy his 2nd Symphony (and his 1st too, IIRC). Sure, some passages are a bit "socialist realist", but there's enough music of genuine substance to offset that. It's quite a fun and often exciting listen! Then again, I have notoriously bad taste and would usually rather listen to Khrennikov than the austere, depressing late works of Shostakovich or Weinberg... 8)
in my opinion it is the improper use of the term realism that creates interpretative troubles and misunderstandings. Ideologists were not interested in realism at all, the definition of revolutionary romanticism is much more fitting
https://www.gresham.ac.uk/sites/default/files/transcript/2021-11-18-1800_FROLOVAWALKER-T.pdf
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