Soviet Music
OR many years no music came to us from Soviet Russia, ‘and musicians in other countries were merely allowed to speculate what sort of music the postRevolutionary composers were turning out behind the ramparts of distrust and suspicion. Now that the war has released a number of inhibitions both inside and outside Russia, we are having a spate of new compositions from that country, and are able to compare them with contemporary music in other countries, Take Shostakovich’s "Three Fantastic Dances," included by Andersen Tyrer in his piano recital from 4YA. These were interesting, and easy to listen to, but neither typically Russian nor typically modern. Some sentimental strain in their makeup seems to prevent most of the Russians from going the whole distance with such moderns as, for instance, Bloch, whose Violin Sonata we heard during the same week. Judging merely by these two works one could say that Bloch writes for the mind of forty years hence, Shostakovich for the mind of forty years ago. But we will have to hear many more contemporary compositions from Russia, and hear them many times over, before hazarding a similar statement abdut the entire Soviet musical. output,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 304, 20 April 1945, Page 9
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198Soviet Music New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 304, 20 April 1945, Page 9
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