BMG's budget label Arte Nova quickly established itself as a high-quality imprint with an interest in unusual repertory; an example is the label's multi-volume exploration of the Futurist movement in Russia. Launched in Italy just before World War I, this artistic trend favored an anti-Romantic aesthetic suggesting the new age of machines and industrial workers. The movement flourished briefly in Russia after the 1917 Revolution, but fell into official disrepute after about a decade when the Communist government adopted the ...
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BMG's budget label Arte Nova quickly established itself as a high-quality imprint with an interest in unusual repertory; an example is the label's multi-volume exploration of the Futurist movement in Russia. Launched in Italy just before World War I, this artistic trend favored an anti-Romantic aesthetic suggesting the new age of machines and industrial workers. The movement flourished briefly in Russia after the 1917 Revolution, but fell into official disrepute after about a decade when the Communist government adopted the ideal called Socialist Realism.This is a highly worthwhile disc that brings us the music of four nearly unknown composers. It does not matter that they were not really Futurists, but seem to have been conservative in their musical outlooks from the outset. Here it seem as if the real aim of the series is to uncover a large number of worthwhile composers who were outshone during their lifetimes by the greats and the revolutionaries of music, from Prokofiev and Shostakovich to...
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Add this copy of Russian Futurism Vol. 2 to cart. $8.33, good condition, Sold by Goodwill of Orange County rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Ana, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1998 by Arte Nova.
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