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MEMBERS' CORNER / Members' wish lists & requests / Re: Chary Nurymov - Piano Concerto
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on: May 21, 2013, 05:12:30 am
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Nurymov's PC was just uploaded to YT on a wonderful new channel devoted to obscure PCs of the 20th century:
(again, the "short link" does not seem to be working ???)
Nurymov's Symphony no. 2 (which is in our downloads) is a great piece; can't wait to hear another work of his!
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Thanks for finding this. Very cool.
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Downloads by surname / Downloads: discussion without links / Re: Tatar Music
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on: April 08, 2013, 06:02:16 pm
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Oh certainly, she was picked-up for her impeccable 'refusenik' credentials and lauded accordingly. It didn't make the slightest difference what music she wrote. And she, I'm afraid, has played along willingly with all of that. Ho-hum.
Yeah. I've been sorting through tons of Russian, Georgian, Armenian, etc... sheet music from the 1970s up until 1991 and it's basically total nonsense for anyone to claim that the regime was still putting their foot down on avant-garde musics in the area. In fact, a great many of the scores I've found represent a more difficult and challenging brand of composition from the post-Soviet art which the West has elevated into 'acceptable' ( i.e. Schnittke, Gubaidulina, Ustvolskaya, and all those holy minimalists like Part, Kancheli, Silvestrov, etc...). Westerners getting their 'Soviet music' wisdom via those guys and Gubaidulina is about as convincing as them getting a handle on Argentine music from listening to Mauricio Kagel. Again, I like a lot of her music, but in her practice she's far more similar to other European avant-gardists than she is to any other composers from her homeland. The defensive elitists of that musical milieu are often very talented at letting the composer's story, extra-musical influences, and other non-musical bits of narrative stand in place of the person's actual music. All that aside, I am definitely curious to learn more about other Tatar composers. I've seen scores for pieces by all of the composers that were shared in the original post, as well as some pieces by Renat Yenikeev and Renat S. Gubaidullin (maybe related to Sofia?)
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Downloads by surname / Downloads: discussion without links / Re: Tatar Music
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on: April 08, 2013, 05:15:11 pm
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The most prominent Tatar composer at the moment, of course, is Gubaidulina. She emigrated from Tatarstan some time ago, and I believe she has changed her religious beliefs since emigration. Even so, she is certainly from there :) She is frequently (wrongly) described as a "Russian" composer, but this is as potty as calling Hamish MacCunn an "English" composer ;)
I like a good amount of Gubaidulina's work, but often lament the magnitude of how eagerly her total output has been championed in the West, at least compared to other Soviet composers (forget about Tatar composers!). I feel like her music, whether it's great or not, arrives steeped in a favoritism built from a mixture of avant-garde elitism and Cold War rhetoric. This is only further validated when we're inevitably reminded that she was greatly and openly influenced by German baroque and second Viennese School composers like Webern. Again, I like her work, but there's a part of me that can't help but scoff at how unbalanced her representation is on disc, with sheet music, in conversation with Westerners who think every other Soviet composer was a stooge of the state, etc...
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Downloads by surname / Downloads: discussion without links / Re: Tatar Music
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on: April 08, 2013, 09:04:14 am
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During the Soviet years, Tatarstan was part of the RFSFR (the giant Russian portion of the USSR). Now, it remains part of the Russian Federation. Their capital is the city of Kazan, which featured a conservatory. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TatarstanTatarstan borders some other interesting ethnic regions that exist under the Russian federal umbrella, including the lands of Mari El, Chuvashiya, and Bashkortostan (Bashkiriya), all of which boasted interesting composers as well. For example, the wonderful Andrei Eshpai was an ethnic Mari composer. Thanks so much for these links, Latvian.
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MEMBERS' CORNER / Members' wish lists & requests / Re: Tansman's 'Isaiah the Prophet'
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on: March 08, 2013, 02:02:34 am
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I have recordings of the operas 'Sabbataï Zevi, le faux messie' (1953) and 'Le serment' (1954) both recorded from France Musique. If you are insterested I can upload them, as far as I know they are not available on CD.
I would very much like to hear the 'Sabbatai Zevi' opera, which I believe is considered Tansman's grandest stage work. I have a CD of 'Le Serment', as performed by Le Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France and released by Radio France in 2007. I'm not sure how available that still is, as I had to order one from a Canadian used CD eBayer.
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MEMBERS' CORNER / Members' wish lists & requests / Ossetian Composers (L. Efimtsova, R. Tsorionti)
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on: February 05, 2013, 05:59:17 am
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Does anybody have this record?
LUDMILLA EFIMTSOVA (b. 1948)
Born in Prigorod, North Ossetia, Russia. She studied composition with Aram Khachaturian and had additional training at the Gnessin School of Music in Moscow. Her compositions are for orchestra, chamber groups, solo instruments and voices.
Symphony #1 (1980's)
Pavel Yadikh/North Ossetian Radio Symphony Orchestra ( + Tsorionti: Interrupted Songs - Excerpts and Kanukhova: Festive Overture) MELODIYA S10-19889-90 (LP) (1984)
Thanks, Caos
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Assorted items / General musical discussion / Re: Your Discovery of the Year
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on: January 24, 2013, 04:22:22 am
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Jean Absil
Just thought I'd mention that I heard "Echecs, suite for piano op.96 (1957) in a concert on Saturday. Performed by Quentin Meurisse this was the French premiere and was in a Cantus Formus concert organized by Nicolas Bacri. It was an interesting concert, a diverse range of works for piano including; Trois Allégories by Chrystel Marchand, and Patrice Sciortino's "Catatoc". I discovered Absil a few years back and was delighted when Daniel Blumenthal released his two-disc set of piano works (which includes the 'Echecs' suite). Some group needs to record his four string quartets now.
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