Rediscovering the Russian Avant-Garde 1912-1925

Alexander Mosolov (Composer), Nikolai Roslavets (Composer), Arthur Vincent Lourie (Composer), Sarah Rothenberg (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Sarah Rothenberg
• Composer: Alexander Mosolov, Nikolai Roslavets, Arthur Vincent Lourie
• Audio CD (November 6, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: G.M. Recordings
• ASIN: B000005VY9
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #685,052 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Sonata for piano No. 4, Op. 11

2. Compositions (3) for piano, Nos 1-3 (complete): Adagio

3. Compositions (3) for piano, Nos 1-3 (complete): Agitato con passione

4. Compositions (3) for piano, Nos 1-3 (complete): Allegretto grazioso

5. Prelude for piano

6. Preludes (5) for piano: Andante affettuoso

7. Preludes (5) for piano: Allegretto con moto

8. Preludes (5) for piano: Lento

9. Preludes (5) for piano: Lento

10. Preludes (5) for piano: Lento; rubato

11. Piano Sonata No. 5

12. Poèmes (4), Op 10: Spleen

13. Poèmes (4), Op 10: Caprice

14. Poèmes (4), Op 10: Autoportrait

15. Poèmes (4), Op 10: Ironies

16. Sonata for piano No. 5 in D minor, Op. 12: Lento grave - allegro affanato

17. Sonata for piano No. 5 in D minor, Op. 12: Elegia. Lento

18. Sonata for piano No. 5 in D minor, Op. 12: Scherzo marciale. Presto, con fuoco

19. Sonata for piano No. 5 in D minor, Op. 12: Adagio languente e patetico

Customer Reviews

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2 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Avante-Garde indeed, August 19, 2003

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Clamdigger (Pahoa, Hawai'i USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rediscovering the Russian Avant-Garde 1912-1925 (Audio CD)

This is "modern" art music, much more accessible, perhaps, than the more dissonent works of better known composers - does that mean less creative? - but still very much from the heady, optimistic period of early 20th Century, revolutionary Europe... before Stalin, Hitler, et al lit the firestorm in ernest.

It would be hard to argue that these nearly lost composers will ever challenge Schoenberg, Mahler or Stravinsky... but their works are well played here and have considerable merit. Recommended for those who, like this writer, like to travel in time and recall the brief, artistic flowering of the post-Great War, pre-Holocaust world.