A Russian composer called Khrushchev could be the new normal
Album Of The WeekFrom the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
Neither the sleeve notes nor the internet tells us much about the composer of this hypnotic and vaguely disturbing album from the Russian state label. These are troubled times in Russia, the eve of war, and the music pretends at a bleak normality. Its composer is 34 years old, an associate professor at the Department of History of Foreign Music of the St Petersburg Conservatoire. Any family connection to the former Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev may, or may not, be incidental.
I wonder what the old shoe-banger would have made of this music…
More here.
And here.
En francais ici.
Well, old Nik had quite a few children,. She could easily be a grand-daughter, though it is unlikely she would trade on that given he was dead almost two decades before she was born.
It’s a bit repetitive, repetitive, repetitive, repetitive, repetitive…
Glad I’m rediscovering contemporary music….