Event overview
VENUE CHANGE: Event will take place in the Great Hall, Richard Hoggart Building
(M)other Russia - Music in Post-Soviet Russia
Special guest: composer Vladimir Martynov ( Moscow) in conversation with Alexander Ivashkin. (Martynov’s opera La Vita Nuova, after Dante, to be performed by LPO under Vladimir Jurowski on 18 February 2009 at the Royal Festival Hall).
Martynov’s music is an unusual, but typically post-Soviet blend of Renaissance ideas, old Russian church music, Byzantine traditions, and the technique of American post-minimalist music.
Talks :
Tara Wilson: Vladimir Martynov’s music and ideas
Rachel Foulds: Galina Ustvolskaya and Dmitri Shostakovich
( based on materials from the Paul Sacher Stiftung )
Elena Artamonova: New Russian Music for viola
Drosostalitsa Moraiti: Evolution of Alfred Schnittke’s Piano Style
Recitals:
Goldsmiths students play music by Vladimir Martynov
Elena Nalimova plays chamber music by Galina Ustvolskaya
Drosostalitsa Moraiti plays unknown piano works by Alfred Schnittke including the world premiere of Piano Preludes (1954).
A programme convened by the Centre for Russian Music in collaboration with the Centre for Contemporary Music Cultures.
This is a series of talks and performances focused on the work of Russian/Post-Soviet composers, exploring the impact of political change from different perspectives and cultural positions, and highlighting radically different aesthetic viewpoints. Through the influence or rejection of mainstream European composition and popular music idioms, or via a return to traditional religious and folk elements, Post-Soviet music has forged it's own, sometimes surprising, set of aesthetic controversies.
This series of performances and talks will feature the work of composers from former Soviet countries, composers who remained and developed their work in Russia, and Russian composers based in the UK.
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Feb 2009 | 10:00am - 6:00pm |
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