RECENT: Find out about composers from unusual places, including Gerard Schurmann, Giya Kancheli, Nazib Zhiganov and Nodar Gabunia, about singing in cars, and meet Jim Hutton from the RLPO and some of our regular contributors in this eighty-minute February 2021 video.
VIDEO INTERVIEW: Ona Jarmalavičiūtė talks to American choral conductor Donald Nally, director of The Crossing, in this fascinating, illustrated, one hour programme.
RECENT: Come and meet Eric Fraad of Heresy Records, Kenneth Woods, musical director of Colorado MahlerFest and the English Symphony Orchestra and others in our hour-long March 2021 video.
Ukrainian-Russian composer and musicologist Nikolai Andreyevich Roslavets was born at Surazh on 5 January 1881.
As 'the Russian Schoenberg', he invented a new system of organising sounds, based on 'synthetic chords' of between six and nine tones each.
Writing in a modernist, leftist style, he fell from grace and was forced to repent his 'political mistakes' in public, and from 1930 both he and his music were completely supressed by the Soviet authorities until his death in Moscow on 23 August 1944. His widow rescued some of his scores from an apartment ransacking and manuscript confiscation visit by former proletarian musicians, but it was not until the 1970s that his music was discovered in Western Europe and his name began to reappear, recovering from his 'non-person' status.
Record Box. Unjustly Neglected - Violin concertos by Nikolay Roslavets impress Gerald Fenech
Violin Master - Gordon Rumson reports on a rare Carnegie Hall appearance of Mark Lubotsky