Reinhold Moritzevich Glière: Heroic March for the Buryat-Mongolian ASSR, Op. 72
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- čas přidán 21. 08. 2024
- Glière has long been a favorite composer of mine, and I would be happy if you judged his music in the proper spirit and not in the lazy manner usually employed by music journalists, e.g. that he was not as "original" as Prokofiev or as "biting" as Shostakovich, as if the merit of a composer's work was that they were distinct from other musicians by being simultaneously indistinct from them! Prokofiev and Shostakovich had their own purposes in music, hence their style, and Gliere had his own, and the expressive purposes found in each composer's style may find sympathetic resonance in the different listeners, or even the same listener on different occasions. I would be very interested in the development of this "occasional" critique of music, as an expression of the experience of the music as part of the listener's development. This would be distinct from the constant reiteration of tired and contradictory scales of greatness, ostensibly permanent and based upon a supposedly objective and linear development in the history of music (as Whitehead pointed out, one can be provincial in time as well as place). There are times when Glière far outsings either Shostakovich or Beethoven in resonant sympathy with my imagination and passions. And there are times he does not, and other voices and ideas are sought out. But I continue to come back again and again, and find again not only what delighted me before but novel sensations previously undiscovered. Because of the regularity and intensity of these experiences, I think it appropriate to give Gliere the defining characteristic of "a favorite composer," and he shall have it until something of greater power disolves the habitual pattern.
This particular piece of Glière's I often return to, and find in it beauties that stir my imagination and passions far more potent than what the often its applied phrase "Soviet hack-work" is supposed to exhaust for its potential for listening experience. The bi-national country it celebrates may have been a very cruel joke (there were few other than that at the time) in the name of autonomous governance, but the swaggering march that concludes the piece (7:40) seems to me to be for a country yet born, and one that through my work in philosophy I am marching for, all the while humming that tune.
I absolutely love Glière, more than any other composer of the Soviet era.
Fascinating the way he combines a "Mongolian" pentatonal melody with Western harmonies.
His Symphony No 3 just transports me to another place.
Un compositor excelente cuya grandeza aún no se ha entendido.
Une oeuvre méconnue qui met bien en valeur son génie de l'orchestration !
Out of a great body of quality pieces, this is Gliere's most impressive work!
Gliere's horn concerto is his best piece
That description was gold, great music, good interpretation from the uploader .
Certainly an excellent work, and one that is performed rarely. I appreciate the upload! This is not Op. 72, however, but Op. 71. Op. 72 is assigned to his Festive Overture of 1937, also known as "Solemn Overture for the 20th Anniversary of the October Revolution".
Ted Wilks, Program(me) Annotator, Lancaster Symphony Orchestra, Lancaster, PA, USA
That was indeed a great description, and one that definitely resonates with my attitude towards what could be laughingly called the 'reception' of Soviet music in the West. Whether they'd admit it or not, music critics and scholars over here measure the worth of that region's composers based on an inhuman Cold War narrative that can only accept 'second' or 'third world' composers if their work is either supremely avant-garde or borne from an opposition to the evils of communist tyranny.
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, watch the video "60 best soviet composers"
It is not easy to separate Russian music from Russian history - but it IS worth doing. I "met" Gliere through his glorious Harp Concerto, and I clearly understand the egregious injustices of Tsarist Russia - but that in no way diminishes my enjoyment of that beautiful work. I wish our relations with Russia were better today - but neither side has a n ethical leader at present. But I (and most other music-lovers) can appreciate great composers of ANY nationality.
I can remember that there was a piece of music here on youtube with several anthams: France, Japan, Denmark, Serbia and several other. A fantasy or overture of Gliere. Who can help me?
For instance, read the very first line in the English Wikipedia article describing Sofia Gubaidulina's aesthetic...