Thanks Christopher for the contributions to the Belarusian downloads. I finally get to hear some orchestral music
by Vassily Zolotarev, whose symphonies we have so long hoped to hear. Does anyone know from which date this ballet is?
The music is effective if a little unsubtle (lots of activity and drama) and seems to have Soviet overtones rather than the Russian
romantics that I had hoped to hear.
Belarus is still a source of some of my favourite forgotten composers (Vagner, Abeliovich, Tikotsky, Aladov) so I still long for more works from their pen turning up!
I hope to be receving more in due course, and will post accordingly. Which works of the composers you mention do you have? I am trying to ascertain what has even been recorded.
And in relations to that youtube link, the clip of the Zolotarev ballet, and of the Tikotsky opera, look like they are excerpts from films. Which makes me wonder if there are complete recordings of each.