Melodiya and Union of Composers of Russia release Sound Review 14/12/2020
Six digital albums featuring music by contemporary composers are available on digital platforms. Published by Melodiya and the Union of Composers of Russia, Sound Review is the first review of contemporary academic music in the history of Russia in the 21
st century.
The first two albums of Sound Review are a kind of starting point, presenting works of the first and second waves of the Russian musical avant-garde performed by pianist Mikhail Dubov, including Alexander Mosolov, Arthur Lourié, Edison Denisov, Sofia Gubaidulina, Arvo Pärt, Valentin Silvestrov, and Vladimir Tarnopolsky. The first two albums contain a lot of phonographic rarities that are almost never heard in concerts, while some others have not been earlier released, including the works by the early XX century composers Nikolai Obukhov, Gavriil Popov, Leonid Polovinkin, and our contemporaries, such as Hexagram by Vladimir Martynov, Dipty