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About LinkBacksYes, I think the national sound is also VERY obvious from the Russians, regardless of whether they were from before the 1900s or after.
Yes, I think the national sound is also VERY obvious from the Russians, regardless of whether they were from before the 1900s or after.
Hi ON,
Presciently exquisite comments yours are. Liszt is *quite special*, however, the strains of *Czardás* are always percolating in his veins. I have this notion that his *Weimar Period* did much to give his music a hyper-romantic muscularity. When listening to his magnum opus organ piece entitled Fantasy and Fugue on *Ad Nos, Ad Salutarem Undam* its as if he sums up much of his *compositional weltanschaaung*, so to speak...
Hi David,
Yes, one can invariably pick out a Russian through their music - The whole panoply of ethnic groups and political upheaval that have pulsed through the course of Russian History makes for an overwhelmingly rich smorgasbord from which to pick and choose.
Cheers,
CD
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"Improvisational Art": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSxVO3EoCRM
Interesting thread....I was listening to some big orchestral score on the local classical station the other day and thought, "Hmmm...I bet this is English..." It turned out to be the Symphony No. 1 by William Walton.
Isn't it the way it goes? Who cannot hear "Frenchy" in Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe? "Ruskie" in Rimsky-Korsakov's Antar? "Yankee" in Gershwin's songs (with the divine Barbara Hendricks)? Moravian in Janacek's diary of one who disappeared. Buenos Aires with Piazzola's tango?Originally Posted by mathetes1963
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