The stream of conductors from Russia and Eastern Europe taking roles in British musical life has led to a high standard of orchestral performances and to the rediscovery of some composers who were popular in the Soviet Union and its satellites but much less so in the West. Such is the Azerbaijani Kara Karayev (also known as Gara Garayev), whom Shostakovich admired but who started taking home prizes after Shostakovich got on Stalin's dreaded bad side. Some of his music is socialist-realist (he wrote a ballet, The Path of ...
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The stream of conductors from Russia and Eastern Europe taking roles in British musical life has led to a high standard of orchestral performances and to the rediscovery of some composers who were popular in the Soviet Union and its satellites but much less so in the West. Such is the Azerbaijani Kara Karayev (also known as Gara Garayev), whom Shostakovich admired but who started taking home prizes after Shostakovich got on Stalin's dreaded bad side. Some of his music is socialist-realist (he wrote a ballet, The Path of Thunder, about South African apartheid, one segment of which is included here). But The Seven Beauties, composed in the late 1940s, is nothing less than a work in the grand Russian ballet tradition, owing more to Tchaikovsky than anyone else, and if you're looking for something in that vein it will certainly fill the bill. The scenario is based on a Persian erotic poem of the year 1197, with little sketches of the titular beauties at its musical center. Their nationalities (Indian,...
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