The former Soviet republics continue to yield strong unknown repertory as Russian and other Eastern expats bring them to the West. In the case of music by the Azeri composer Kara Karayev (also known as Gara Garayev), whose work is starting to be rediscovered, conductor Dmitry Yablonsky has returned to the East from the U.S., establishing an ensemble called the Kiev Virtuosi that on occasion, as here, expands to a full symphony orchestra. Karayev was a follower of Shostakovich, and he handles the orchestra -- a full symphony ...
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The former Soviet republics continue to yield strong unknown repertory as Russian and other Eastern expats bring them to the West. In the case of music by the Azeri composer Kara Karayev (also known as Gara Garayev), whose work is starting to be rediscovered, conductor Dmitry Yablonsky has returned to the East from the U.S., establishing an ensemble called the Kiev Virtuosi that on occasion, as here, expands to a full symphony orchestra. Karayev was a follower of Shostakovich, and he handles the orchestra -- a full symphony and then some -- expertly. He's also a fine melodist (sample the first movement of the Symphony No. 1, starting about five minutes in), and his grim finale to the symphony, very much in the vein of Shostakovich, does emotional justice to what was happening in the Soviet Union in 1943. The much later Violin Concerto (1967) is also notable. Karayev adopts a full-scale tone row in the opening movement, something Shostakovich flirted with but never did. He manages to merge the tone row...
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