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Well, let call it Slav music.

All Russian composers of 20 century were in one way of other took the torch from Rimsky-Korsakov. Ironically I’m not a big fun of Rimsky-Korsakov’ symphonic music because it is too Slav, overwhelmingly and insultingly Slav. (I feel the realm where Rimsky-Korsakov was brilliant were his operas). Myaskovsky kind of went after Rimsky-Korsakov but he has his…. “on strange puss in it”… as Tony Soprano use to say... You right, it is very difficult to describe Myaskovsky music. What is interesting that Myaskovsky made his own “sound” (at least for me) but the volume of his compositions. When you listen juts one of his symphones and do not pay attention to anything else then it sounds OK but still is “not good enough” to be a great work. Then, what you listen more and more of his composition and developing some acquired taste then you realize that something that you realized as “weakness” or something “not enough” is in fact a signature of own voice. Myaskovsky has some very odd, very subdued “expressionism within” and to “get” expressionism it requires being “tined” to that type of expressionism. To listen a whole week juts Myaskovsky really helps… Oops! One of them were not Myaskovsky b ut it was Prokofiev’s Six Symphony.. Oh, perhaps I confused something…. :-)

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