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Lokshin - Symphonies Nos.5, 9 and 11

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Catalogue numberBIS-1456 CD
Release date2006-05-29
Discs1
Orig. sample rate44100Hz
Total time67:21

Almost twenty years after his death it is still difficult to properly evaluate the work of Russian composer Alexander Lokshin (1920-1987). His uncompromising stance led to numerous conflicts with the Soviet regime, resulting in him being banned from the Moscow Conservatory twice – first as a student and later as a teacher.
Many of his works were suppressed either before or immediately after their first performances, and most of his eleven symphonies, symphonic poems and chamber music remained confined to his desk drawer, and are only now gradually coming to light.

One reason for the almost systematic persecution was the fact that Lokshin often included vocal parts in his orchestral works. In several cases it was the text rather than the music which caused the work to be banned. One such instance is Symphony No. 9, where the poems by Leonid Martynov, in turns harrowing and sarcastic, form a veiled indictment of the Soviet system. At the première in 1976 baritone Yuri Grigoriev was choked by emotion. ‘I didn’t know if I was going to be arrested the following day’, he later admitted. He wasn’t – but the symphony was blacklisted. (Reportedly, Dmitri Shostakovich, who was present at the première, acquired the score and avidly studied the work, which he greatly admired.)

This is the second disc of Lokshin’s music on BIS, the first being BIS-CD-1156, with the composer’s only purely instrumental symphony (No. 4, ‘Sinfonia Stretta’) and his Three Scenes from Goethe’s Faust. Two of the present performers, conductor Michel Swierczewski and soprano Vanda Tabery, also participated on that disc, which received praise both for the performances (‘outstandingly vibrant’) and for the music, which one reviewer described as ‘challenging late romantic modernism’. These two are joined by baritone Jeffrey Black and 'recreation - GROSSES ORCHESTER GRAZ', both of whom are appearing on BIS for the first time.
 
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  Composer: Lokshin, Alexander
  Symphony No.5, Shakespeare´s Sonnets, for baritone and
string orchestra and harp
15:41
01 I. Tir´d with all these, for restful death I cry (Sonnet
No.66)
06:05 $ 1.28 USD
02 II. That time of year thou mayst in me behold (Sonnet No.73) 09:36 $ 2.02 USD
 
  Symphony No.9 for baritone and string orchestra, to poems by Leonid Martynov 27:30
03 I. Introduzione 03:18 $ 0.69 USD
04 II. Burlesca 05:18 $ 1.11 USD
05 III. Marcia 04:57 $ 1.04 USD
06 IV. Toccata 05:17 $ 1.11 USD
07 V. Finale 08:40 $ 1.82 USD
 
  Symphony No.11 for soprano and orchestra, to a sonnet by Luís de Camões 22:48
08 Introduzione 01:00 $ 0.21 USD
09 Tema 01:06 $ 0.23 USD
10 Variation 1 01:05 $ 0.23 USD
11 Variation 2 00:31 $ 0.11 USD
12 Variation 3 02:10 $ 0.46 USD
13 Variation 4 02:30 $ 0.53 USD
14 Variation 5 02:55 $ 0.61 USD
15 Variation 6 00:59 $ 0.21 USD
16 Variation 7 03:10 $ 0.67 USD
17 Variation 8 05:32 $ 1.16 USD
18 Coda 01:50 $ 0.39 USD
 
  Album total 67:21
ConductorSwierczewski, Michel
BaritoneBlack, Jeffrey
OrchestraGrosses Orchester Graz
ComposerLokshin, Alexander
SopranoTabery, Vanda

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