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Post Subject: Diving into Nikolai Myaskovsky…Posted by Romy the Cat on: 11/28/2006
I have to confess a sin - I was listening today the Myaskovsky’s cello concerto 5 times. It is not that I got hooked on Myaskovsky but Amphissa was right - Myaskovsky does have his own unique voice.
Myaskovsky is kind of a mix between Prokofiev, Brahms and Nikolai Medtner. He has sometimes the Brahms’ brilliants, sometimes the Prokofiev’s spontaneity and sometimes the Medtner lack of geniuses. However, all together it crates own absolutely exclusive spider-net of own “Myaskovskiness”…
It is sufficiently melodic, it is adequately effective, and it is satisfactorily smart. Myaskovsky music is not as powerful music might be but it is very far from the “evaluator music”. The Himalayan Mountains are grotesquely beautiful. The Loire Valley with its castles is graphically amusing. Myaskovsky’s music is not grotesque or “amusing”. It kind of “stay behind” and it has impressiveness of … a desert beauty. It is ironic how much beauty could be in a regular desert landscape…. Partially if you spend then a long time and learn to understand it…
Rgs,
Romy the Cat
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