Four Russians
RECENT evening of Russian music from 4YO included Tchaikovski, Arensky, Khatchaturian, and RimskyKorsakov. There was a time when I took all Russian composers (save Tchaikovski) as being by nature enlisted under the nationalist banner but, having just read M. Calvocoressi’s invaluable "Penguin" dealing with the subject, I am now in a position to differentiate a little more than formerly. And I am sure that this author (who seems to have studied his subject to some purpose) would scarcely lump. tagether the composers mentioned above under the generic description of Russian composers. Tchaikovski, influenced by Western methods of composition; Arensky, owing his slighter talent to the influence both of Tchaikovski and of RimskyKorsakov, his teacher; Rimsky-Korsakov, accused by the critic of ruining Moussorgsky’s music by his re-arrangements, and supposedly less nationalist in effect than the earlier Russian writers; Khatchaturian, born in 1904, a composer who is regarded in Soviet Russia as one of her most truly and fully representative composers, with "a strong national feeling and an inborn sense of melody, colour, and instrumental treatment" .,..
It would seem that a programme dealing with the music of four such original and opposed temperaments would require, as a preliminary to listening, a full history of the nature and origins of Russian music, from the earliest times down to the present day. And I should dearly love to hear more music by Moussorgsky, the composer who, it is agreed, represents most fully and lovingly the soul of ancient Russia. ©
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 367, 5 July 1946, Page 11
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247Four Russians New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 367, 5 July 1946, Page 11
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