A thrilling work, superbly played. Myaskovsky is currently unfashionable in the UK, for reasons I feel are essentially masochistic. Its idiom is post-romantic (at points barely `post`) but this is the 1920`s: shouldn`t he be more expressionist, like Bartok as his most grating? Yet Myaskvosky is not a sentimentalist and for all its aural delights this is authentically complex and arresting music. File under `guilty pleasure` perhaps?
unfashionable in the UK, for reasons I feel are essentially
masochistic. Its idiom is post-romantic (at points barely `post`) but
this is the 1920`s: shouldn`t he be more expressionist, like Bartok as
his most grating? Yet Myaskvosky is not a sentimentalist and for all
its aural delights this is authentically complex and arresting music.
File under `guilty pleasure` perhaps?