I know this is a broad and very subjective topic, but here goes:
I'm basically looking for an obscure pet project composer to get to know. I'd love opinions on any of the below composers, a list I've compiled based on some specific criteria. They're all (Russian/Soviet) 20th century composers (some have works from just before 1900?) who've put out some number of both symphonies and string quartets, and they're at least somewhat (if not very) obscure.
- Maximilian Steinberg
- Boris Asafyev
- Vladimir Shcherbachov (only a suite for SQ)
- Lev Knipper (also spy!)
- Alexander Tcherepnin
- Gavriil Popov ("symphony for SQ")
- Vissarion Shebalin
- Boris Arapov
- Dmitri Klebanov
- Nikolay Peyko
- Aleksandr Lokshin
- Andrei Eshpai
- Vladimir Dashkevich
- Youri Boutsko
- Boris Tischenko
- Alexey Rybnikov
- Alla Pavlova
I know that's a lot, but I'd be curious to get anyone's opinions/recommendations if any of these stand out, not a rundown of each of them. I've been listening to a number of Shebalin's works so far, and am at least interested to continue listening. Thanks!
Quote from: fugueforthought on May 08, 2017, 04:46:11 PM
I know this is a broad and very subjective topic, but here goes:
I'm basically looking for an obscure pet project composer to get to know. I'd love opinions on any of the below composers, a list I've compiled based on some specific criteria. They're all (Russian/Soviet) 20th century composers (some have works from just before 1900?) who've put out some number of both symphonies and string quartets, and they're at least somewhat (if not very) obscure.
- Maximilian Steinberg
- Boris Asafyev
- Vladimir Shcherbachov (only a suite for SQ)
- Lev Knipper (also spy!)
- Alexander Tcherepnin
- Gavriil Popov ("symphony for SQ")
- Vissarion Shebalin
- Boris Arapov
- Dmitri Klebanov
- Nikolay Peyko
- Aleksandr Lokshin
- Andrei Eshpai
- Vladimir Dashkevich
- Youri Boutsko
- Boris Tischenko
- Alexey Rybnikov
- Alla Pavlova
I know that's a lot, but I'd be curious to get anyone's opinions/recommendations if any of these stand out, not a rundown of each of them. I've been listening to a number of Shebalin's works so far, and am at least interested to continue listening. Thanks!
I highly recommend Popov, perhaps the most interesting in that list. His symphonies (there are 6 along with the Chamber Symphony) (Nr. 4 is not recorded yet) deserve to be listened to. The most impressive ones are the Nrs. 1 to 3 (Nr. 3 is a great example of symphony for strings, one of the most large and drammatic IMHO).
Also I'm familiar with Tcherepnin. He wrote 4 symphonies. There are some interesting but not as much as those of Popov.
I don't know about the rest of composers, but I'm sure there may be surprises and pleasant moments with them.
Excellent! Thank you. I will see what I can find of Popov's. Some of these are names I've seen around, obviously, but never listened to and have no idea where to begin. The paucity of recordings I'm sure doesn't help.
There's the other Tchaikovsky
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Tchaikovsky
I have at least one CD of his music, and no qualms with the music.
Rodion Shchedrin (b. 1932) <- some would consider him not obscure but a national hero.
Sergei Slonimsky (b. 1932) <- I believe his current count of symphonies is over 30 and they have a post Shostakovich/Epshai quality to them. Sort of Russian folk inspired. You might find this interview interesting in which he talks about some of his symphonies
http://en.remusik.org/slonimsky/ (under the Interview tab which doesn't seem to let me copy that exact link)
Quote from: relm1 on May 08, 2017, 08:20:10 PM
Rodion Shchedrin (b. 1932) <- some would consider him not obscure but a national hero.
Sergei Slonimsky (b. 1932) <- I believe his current count of symphonies is over 30 and they have a post Shostakovich/Epshai quality to them. Sort of Russian folk inspired. You might find this interview interesting in which he talks about some of his symphonies
http://en.remusik.org/slonimsky/ (under the Interview tab which doesn't seem to let me copy that exact link)
Yes, an interesting, under-recorded symphonist. Some of the later symphonies employ poly-stylism and various theatrical effects.
I hope someone will embark on a recorded cycle.
Quote from: fugueforthought on May 08, 2017, 04:46:11 PM
I know this is a broad and very subjective topic, but here goes:
I'm basically looking for an obscure pet project composer to get to know. I'd love opinions on any of the below composers, a list I've compiled based on some specific criteria. They're all (Russian/Soviet) 20th century composers (some have works from just before 1900?) who've put out some number of both symphonies and string quartets, and they're at least somewhat (if not very) obscure.
- Maximilian Steinberg
- Boris Asafyev
- Vladimir Shcherbachov (only a suite for SQ)
- Lev Knipper (also spy!)
- Alexander Tcherepnin
- Gavriil Popov ("symphony for SQ")
- Vissarion Shebalin
- Boris Arapov
- Dmitri Klebanov
- Nikolay Peyko
- Aleksandr Lokshin
- Andrei Eshpai
- Vladimir Dashkevich
- Youri Boutsko
- Boris Tischenko
- Alexey Rybnikov
- Alla Pavlova
I know that's a lot, but I'd be curious to get anyone's opinions/recommendations if any of these stand out, not a rundown of each of them. I've been listening to a number of Shebalin's works so far, and am at least interested to continue listening. Thanks!
- Lokshin, Tischenko, Eshpai, Shebalin, Peiko, Popov (early works) are good as symphonists;
- Tcherepnin´s attractive and varied piano concertos are available in a very fine BIS recoring now on Brilliant Classics;
- Arapov is also an interesting composer, but under-recorded.
I know nothing of Boutsko, Dashkevich & I haven´t heard Steinberg.
For some reason people are very interested of Russian obscure composers. Not so much say French, Canadian, Swedish or Spanish obscure composers.
::)
Quote from: 71 dB on May 08, 2017, 09:38:42 PM
For some reason people are very interested of Russian obscure composers. Not so much say French, Canadian, Swedish or Spanish obscure composers.
::)
A lot of these composers wote in a rather distinct, typically Russian/Soviet style, say in the vein of Shostakovich + some ethnic, or Scriabinesque traits.
Whereas the music of the other countries is overall less uniform, very roughly speaking.
Quote from: 71 dB on May 08, 2017, 09:38:42 PM
For some reason people are very interested of Russian obscure composers. Not so much say French, Canadian, Swedish or Spanish obscure composers.
::)
Well, I'm working through some lists of composers from a few of those places as well (Magnard, Ropartz, Roussel from France; Rosenberg, Kallstenius, Blomdahl from Sweden; and a long list of Spanish composers) but came across a rather large number of unfamiliar Russian names yesterday, and am curious to see what impressions anyone has of them.
Thanks for the feedback so far!
Quote from: Turner on May 08, 2017, 09:52:35 PM
A lot of these composers wote in a rather distinct, typically Russian/Soviet style, say in the vein of Shostakovich + some ethnic, or Scriabinesque traits.
Whereas the music of the other countries is overall less uniform, very roughly speaking.
One would think being less uniform means being more interesting. Why is a second rate Shostakovich/third rate Scriabin more interesting than someone who is a second/third rate composer, but has an unique style?
Quote from: fugueforthought on May 08, 2017, 10:16:16 PM
Well, I'm working through some lists of composers from a few of those places as well (Magnard, Ropartz, Roussel from France; Rosenberg, Kallstenius, Blomdahl from Sweden; and a long list of Spanish composers) but came across a rather large number of unfamiliar Russian names yesterday, and am curious to see what impressions anyone has of them.
Thanks for the feedback so far!
Well, in that case sorry about the claims about neglecting non-Russian obscure composers. ;)
Quote from: SymphonicAddict on May 08, 2017, 05:41:20 PM
I highly recommend Popov, perhaps the most interesting in that list. His symphonies (there are 6 along with the Chamber Symphony) (Nr. 4 is not recorded yet) deserve to be listened to. The most impressive ones are the Nrs. 1 to 3 (Nr. 3 is a great example of symphony for strings, one of the most large and drammatic IMHO).
Also I'm familiar with Tcherepnin. He wrote 4 symphonies. There are some interesting but not as much as those of Popov.
I don't know about the rest of composers, but I'm sure there may be surprises and pleasant moments with them.
I'd definitely agree with this. Popov is IMHO a major, neglected figure. Symphony 1, 2 'Motherland' and 6 with its echoes of 'Boris Godonov' stand out for me. The phantasmagoric Symphony 1 is IMHO the only symphony which can stand alongside Shostakovich's 4th Symphony apart from Weinberg's 5th Symphony. Otherwise the Russian Disc CD with Eshpai's 4th and 5th symphonies often gets played here. Steinberg's 2nd Symphony is great IMHO, especially the doom-laden though paradoxically redemptive conclusion with its use of the orchestral piano which, I believe, may have influenced his pupil Dmitri Shostakovich in his First Symphony. I have the newly released (Dutton) CD of Steinberg's 4th Symphony and Violin Concerto but haven't listened to them yet. How about Miaskovsky? I enjoyed Shcherbachov's 5th Symphony very much.
Quote from: vandermolen on May 08, 2017, 10:35:29 PM
I'd definitely agree with this. Popov is IMHO a major, neglected figure.
Neglectance is the faith of all artists. Well-known artists are just exceptions to this rule.
The problem with obscure composers it that access to their music is limited and often expensive. Naxos has not been very busy with Russian obscure comporers (beyond Taneyev and Weinberg who of course aren't that obscure). There's so many other ways to spend your hard earned money than obscure Russian composers... :P
Alexander Tcherepnin was a mentor of mine in the 1960's, and yes, his Piano Concertos are well worth your time, as are the Piano Sonatas, and the four symphonies. The latter are not epics by any means, but are somewhat Liadovian in that they are short, charming, thoughtful, and just fun works.
Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov is not on your list: recordings are difficult to find, if not impossible, but YouTube has a good number, as does this streaming online service:
http://classical-music-online.net/ (http://classical-music-online.net/)\\
He is still alive, c. 80 years old, and is perhaps most famous for his film scores for War and Peace, Andrei Rublev, and others. Ovchinnikov's First Symphony is most excellent.
https://www.youtube.com/v/nfemhSHDlrY
Quote from: Cato on May 09, 2017, 05:56:15 AM
Alexander Tcherepnin was a mentor of mine in the 1960's, and yes, his Piano Concertos are well worth your time, as are the Piano Sonatas, and the four symphonies. The latter are not epics by any means, but are somewhat Liadovian in that they are short, charming, thoughtful, and just fun works.
Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov is not on your list: recordings are difficult to find, if not impossible, but YouTube has a good number, as does this streaming online service:
http://classical-music-online.net/ (http://classical-music-online.net/)\\
He is still alive, c. 80 years old, and is perhaps most famous for his film scores for War and Peace, Andrei Rublev, and others. Ovchinnikov's First Symphony is most excellent.
https://www.youtube.com/v/nfemhSHDlrY
Ovchinnikov also wrote the fine score to the epic Bondarchuk film version of 'War and Peace'. Oops - you mentioned that Leo. The First Symphony sounds most impressive. Thanks for the link.
Here is an absolute favorite CD
[asin]B00J711NMW[/asin]
Which features two obscure russian composers
Youri Chaporin (a Tchaikovsky student) and Guorgui Sviridov a talented soviet era composer which music never made it to the west.
You can find a very attractive Cello sonata by Chaporin on youtube
Here's a link to Eshpai's 4th Symphony - generally considered his greatest:
https://youtu.be/WAuASHsLvno
And one of my own favourites - Rodion Shchedrin's First Symphony:
https://youtu.be/Obj8yKuiEgc
Both are available on CD.
Firsova, Ussachevsky, Kourliandski
Quote from: Turner on May 08, 2017, 09:52:35 PM
A lot of these composers wote in a rather distinct, typically Russian/Soviet style, say in the vein of Shostakovich + some ethnic, or Scriabinesque traits.
Whereas the music of the other countries is overall less uniform, very roughly speaking.
Perhaps Ussachevsky's
Of Wood and Brass does sound like second rate Shostakovich but I've never noticed. I think it's possible to find unique voices anywhere if that is what one is looking for.
I think it is fair to say that Ussachevsky is seen as an American composer; he emigrated to the US in 1930, 19 years old, and built his musical career abroad. "Of Wood and Brass" is from 1965.
But there are very inventive Russian composers of those generations too, of course; the Futurists (including Mosolov); Roslavets; Obuchov and Wyshnegradsky (both emigrated to France) among those coming to mind, not to mention later generations.
Among the futurists, Avraamov´s Symphony of Factory Sirens (1923; reconstruction) is indeed remarkable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kq_7w9RHvpQ
Onno van Rijen ran a very comprehensive website on the subject of Soviet composers, including a systematic list of many of the obscure ones, their works and their recordings, the website once also had a good forum section. Unfortunately it seems to be gone now.
Musicweb has a good in-depth source on Russian/USSR symphonies:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/Ntl_discogs/Russian_symphonies/Soviet_Symphonies.htm
Quote from: Turner on May 09, 2017, 08:30:55 PM
I think it is fair to say that Ussachevsky is seen as an American composer; he emigrated to the US in 1930, 19 years old, and built his musical career abroad. "Of Wood and Brass" is from 1965.
I suppose that is fair, despite his Russian family background.
Quote from: Turner on May 09, 2017, 08:51:45 PM
Onno van Rijen ran a very comprehensive website on the subject of Soviet composers, including a systematic list of many of the obscure ones, their works and their recordings, the website once also had a good forum section. Unfortunately it seems to be gone now.
Musicweb has a good in-depth source on Russian/USSR symphonies:
http://www.musicweb-international.com/Ntl_discogs/Russian_symphonies/Soviet_Symphonies.htm
That's a pity about the van Rijen website which was indeed very helpful.
I listened to the Ovchinnikov First Symphony last night and thought it excellent. It's also a pity that his music is largely not represented on CD although I had an LP of Symphony 2, for strings I think.
Quote from: vandermolen on May 09, 2017, 10:18:32 PM
I listened to the Ovchinnikov First Symphony last night and thought it excellent. It's also a pity that his music is largely I represented on CD although I had an LP of Symphony 2, for strings I think.
Yes, the
Second Symphony is for strings, dedicated to astronaut
Yuri Gagarin.
Quote from: fugueforthought on May 08, 2017, 04:46:11 PM
- Lev Knipper (also spy!)
Knipper's life seems far more interesting than his music. His greatest claim to fame (musically) is Polushko Pole, the song. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoT70zUqqkU
The ones I like are the early Mosolov and Popov, stuff they wrote up to mid 1930s.
Roslavets, Lourie, Protopopov, Feinberg and Obukhov are also worth a spin.
Hello Everyone! The miracles of the Internet continue!
On YouTube I was listening to a work by Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov and saw a comment from a person in Lebanon who remarked that he personally knows Ovchinnikov, and that the man is still alive, in his early 80's.
The Lebanese is a composer named Houtaf Khoury, who has a good number of works available on YouTube.
So I sent him a note and asked about the current status of Ovchinnikov.
I received a reply! Here is a summary of what Professor Khoury said: he has known the Russian since 1990. He wrote that Ovchinnikov's religious nature and anti-Communist attitudes held him back from becoming better known. Andrei Tarkovsky's influence, however, helped him to stay afloat. But after Tarkovsky's death in 1986, it was difficult for Ovchinnikov to get his works performed and recorded, despite all of his earlier fame from both Tarkovsky's films and of course Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace films.
And so Ovchinnikov turned to conducting and toured with some orchestras "especially to Japan." He also revised some of his works, including his Third and Fourth Symphonies.
Nothing was mentioned about any new works produced in the last years. Professor Khoury's (apparently Russian) wife "Tatiana" has performed Ovchinnikov's works:
https://www.youtube.com/v/523ffnItaCY
The professor said that he has been out of contact with Ovchinnikov for 5 years, and my letter has served as an impetus for him to re-establish contact. 0:)
So perhaps some news about this great composer will surface!
Quote from: Cato on November 08, 2017, 08:38:28 AM
Hello Everyone! The miracles of the Internet continue!
On YouTube I was listening to a work by Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov and saw a comment from a person in Lebanon who remarked that he personally knows Ovchinnikov, and that the man is still alive, in his early 80's.
The Lebanese is a composer named Houtaf Khoury, who has a good number of works available on YouTube.
So I sent him a note and asked about the current status of Ovchinnikov.
I received a reply! Here is a summary of what Professor Khoury said: he has known the Russian since 1990. He wrote that Ovchinnikov's religious nature and anti-Communist attitudes held him back from becoming better known. Andrei Tarkovsky's influence, however, helped him to stay afloat. But after Tarkovsky's death in 1986, it was difficult for Ovchinnikov to get his works performed and recorded, despite all of his earlier fame from both Tarkovsky's films and of course Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace films.
And so Ovchinnikov turned to conducting and toured with some orchestras "especially to Japan." He also revised some of his works, including his Third and Fourth Symphonies.
Nothing was mentioned about any new works produced in the last years. Professor Khoury's (apparently Russian) wife "Tatiana" has performed Ovchinnikov's works:
https://www.youtube.com/v/523ffnItaCY
The professor said that he has been out of contact with Ovchinnikov for 5 years, and my letter has served as an impetus for him to re-establish contact. 0:)
So perhaps some news about this great composer will surface!
A second little note arrived today from Professor
Khoury:
QuoteThe music written by Ovchinnikov is really great. Sadly appreciation in our time has turned with different tastes...
He was a very good person but he deal with everything in the way he feel and believed. There was no compromises in his life this is why he was often in the corner. I strongly recommend his beautiful second symphony for a double string orchestra, Hommage a Ravel, Yarmarka... as well his beautiful music written for Tarkovsky's Films. Tarkovsky is a Genius of his time, sadly he left too soon.
And so here is a link to a YouTube performance of the
Second Symphony:
https://www.youtube.com/v/PCgnNQ9Hsh4
Georgy Dorokhov and Alexander Khubeev come to mind. Both very interesting composers, particularly when it comes to their individual tastes for timbre.
Thanks Cato ! You made me discover Ovchinnikov a few years ago and he's definitely very high on my list of excellent obscure composers !
Ovchinnnikov also wrote shorter orchestral/vocal works that are worth dscovering: Elegy, The Fair, Ave Maria, Festival, Valse-poème.
One word of commendation for the very excellent and very obscure Ivan Wyschnegradsky, whose cantata La journée de l'existence is mind-blowing. His main output, though, is for the piano (microtonal works).
Quote from: André on November 08, 2017, 05:36:10 PM
Thanks Cato ! You made me discover Ovchinnikov a few years ago and he's definitely very high on my list of excellent obscure composers !
Ovchinnnikov also wrote shorter orchestral/vocal works that are worth dscovering: Elegy, The Fair, Ave Maria, Festival, Valse-poème.
One word of commendation for the very excellent and very obscure Ivan Wyschnegradsky, whose cantata La journée de l'existence is mind-blowing. His main output, though, is for the piano (microtonal works).
Hi
Andre'!
Yes, the Russians produced a good number of great composers whose works have remained under the radar a century later!
I have read theories throughout the years that
Scriabin would have embraced quarter-tone music eventually. I recall reading (in something by Faubion Bowers?) that
Scriabin's use of parallel fifths in his later piano works was an attempt to evoke the quarter-tones he was "actually hearing." To be sure, in his quarter-tone works,
Wyschnegadsky does evoke the world of
Scriabin more than a little.
Whether
Scriabin himself would have produced e.g. a quarter-tone
Art of the Fugue...?
Quote from: André on November 08, 2017, 05:36:10 PM
One word of commendation for the very excellent and very obscure Ivan Wyschnegradsky, whose cantata La journée de l'existence is mind-blowing. His main output, though, is for the piano (microtonal works).
Listening to it again today: I wonder how it would work as a pure tone-poem, without the French poem spoken a la
Sprechgesang.
Quote from: Jeffrey Smith on May 08, 2017, 06:09:08 PM
There's the other Tchaikovsky
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boris_Tchaikovsky
I have at least one CD of his music, and no qualms with the music.
He has a very distinctive style, with a more serene emotional expression, in contrast to so much angry or bombastic Russian/Soviet music.
Quote from: Cato on November 09, 2017, 06:26:19 AM
Listening to it again today: I wonder how it would work as a pure tone-poem, without the French poem spoken a la Sprechgesang.
You got me there,
Leo: my version of the « The Day of Being » (as I saw it translated on the net) is sung in russian !! :o. It originated as a russian work, the composer having settled in Paris in 1920 and lived there for the duration of his life. Apparently, somewhere around 1927 the text was translated in French.
This is the Pascal Rophé version, with the Omroep Symfonie Orkest (a Dutch outfit), with Alexei Tarasov, récitant:
http://classical-music-online.net/en/performer/1948?composer_sort=1947&prod_sort=4910 (http://classical-music-online.net/en/performer/1948?composer_sort=1947&prod_sort=4910)
If the link still works you will immediately notice how dramatic and imposing the russian delivery is. A comment I read calls it an « Acte préalable
lite ». I'm not familiar with Scriabine's magum opus, but I take it was meant as some sort of compliment !
I do not have the French language version on hand, but I find the russian language so musical, so dramatic ! Reminds me (visually) of the great portrayals of actor Nicolaï Tcherkassov:
(http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-tYf5ZURoP60/TbBQc4Wa-9I/AAAAAAAACdU/zaU3EFqyhpI/s1600/56508.jpg)
Quote from: 71 dB on May 08, 2017, 09:38:42 PM
For some reason people are very interested of Russian obscure composers. Not so much say French, Canadian, Swedish or Spanish obscure composers.
::)
I would certainly be happy, and find it justified, if Medtner et alia was far more obscure than it is ;-)
Sergei Protopopov is definitely worth investigating. The piano sonatas are pure gold!
Quote from: schnittkease on November 09, 2017, 08:25:41 PM
Sergei Protopopov is definitely worth investigating. The piano sonatas are pure gold!
A big
AMEN to that! 0:)
Quote from: André on November 09, 2017, 12:37:33 PM
You got me there, Leo: my version of the « The Day of Being » (as I saw it translated on the net) is sung in russian !! :o. It originated as a russian work, the composer having settled in Paris in 1920 and lived there for the duration of his life. Apparently, somewhere around 1927 the text was translated in French.
This is the Pascal Rophé version, with the Omroep Symfonie Orkest (a Dutch outfit), with Alexei Tarasov, récitant:
http://classical-music-online.net/en/performer/1948?composer_sort=1947&prod_sort=4910 (http://classical-music-online.net/en/performer/1948?composer_sort=1947&prod_sort=4910)
If the link still works you will immediately notice how dramatic and imposing the russian delivery is. A comment I read calls it an « Acte préalable lite ». I'm not familiar with Scriabine's magum opus, but I take it was meant as some sort of compliment !
I do not have the French language version on hand, but I find the russian language so musical, so dramatic ! Reminds me (visually) of the great portrayals of actor Nicolaï Tcherkassov:
Many thanks,
Andre' ! I have been wondering about joining that site, so this will probably convince me to do so! 8)
I like Vasily Kalinnikov. His 1st symphony is among the best I ever heard
Quote from: yekov on November 13, 2017, 11:18:59 AM
I like Vasily Kalinnikov. His 1st symphony is among the best I ever heard
Indeed, it's a gorgeous work. I love his 2nd symphony as well. Absolutely heart-warming music.
Maybe Balakirev isn't that obscure, but his Symphony no. 1 and tone poem Tamara deserve to be played more often. They're both highly atmospheric and tuneful works that are comparable to the more popular orchestral works of Rimsky-Korsakov and Borodin.
Some more Russian composers whose music I have been listening to recently
Elena Mykova
Alexey Glazkov
Anton Svetlichny
Stanislav Makovsky
Natasia Krustchiova
Quote from: fugueforthought on May 08, 2017, 04:46:11 PMI know this is a broad and very subjective topic, but here goes:
I'm basically looking for an obscure pet project composer to get to know. I'd love opinions on any of the below composers, a list I've compiled based on some specific criteria. They're all (Russian/Soviet) 20th century composers (some have works from just before 1900?) who've put out some number of both symphonies and string quartets, and they're at least somewhat (if not very) obscure.
- Maximilian Steinberg
- Boris Asafyev
- Vladimir Shcherbachov (only a suite for SQ)
- Lev Knipper (also spy!)
- Alexander Tcherepnin
- Gavriil Popov ("symphony for SQ")
- Vissarion Shebalin
- Boris Arapov
- Dmitri Klebanov
- Nikolay Peyko
- Aleksandr Lokshin
- Andrei Eshpai
- Vladimir Dashkevich
- Youri Boutsko
- Boris Tischenko
- Alexey Rybnikov
- Alla Pavlova
I know that's a lot, but I'd be curious to get anyone's opinions/recommendations if any of these stand out, not a rundown of each of them. I've been listening to a number of Shebalin's works so far, and am at least interested to continue listening. Thanks!
Ovchinnikov, especially 1st symphony.
Yevlakhov
Slonimsky
Quote from: Cato on May 09, 2017, 05:56:15 AMAlexander Tcherepnin was a mentor of mine in the 1960's, and yes, his Piano Concertos are well worth your time, as are the Piano Sonatas, and the four symphonies. The latter are not epics by any means, but are somewhat Liadovian in that they are short, charming, thoughtful, and just fun works.
Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov is not on your list: recordings are difficult to find, if not impossible, but YouTube has a good number, as does this streaming online service:
http://classical-music-online.net/ (http://classical-music-online.net/)\\
He is still alive, c. 80 years old, and is perhaps most famous for his film scores for War and Peace, Andrei Rublev, and others. Ovchinnikov's First Symphony is most excellent.
[flash=400,400]https://www.youtube.com/v/nfemhSHDlrY[/flash]
The above was recently read by a member:
Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov died 3 or 4 years ago. We still await good, modern recordings of his works!
Vladimir and Revol Bunin,Ivan Dzerzhinsky , Askold Murov and Yuri Levitin