Although in the modern world the works of art from the 1920\u2019s created by artists coming from the Soviet Union is now triumphing and shown in the most renowned museums in the world, the music from this epoch is still waiting to be discovered.<\/p>\n
Ladies and Gentlemen, Dear Music Lovers<\/p>\n
in the cycle presenting our fascination, and sometimes also inspiration for creating concerts repertoire, I would like to bring back the program of the concert, which was to be held last Friday, on the 13th of March. Besides well-known works of Beethoven and Prokofiev, also the music of Nikolai Roslavets was to be presented. His piece entitled \u201eIn den Stunden des Neumonds\u201d has never before been performed in Poland.<\/p>\n
Roslavets is the representative of the first generation of Russian composers, whose adolescence and the most creative period fell to the years of unusual development of art \u2013 the short period of avant-garde in the Soviet Union. It is a huge historical paradox of the 20th century that in the country who approved experiments in all artistic fields, not long afterwards the new political regime became the synonym of subjugation and totalitarianism. Avant-garde artists, who recently praised freedom (allegedly gained also for art), soon became the first victims of repression.<\/p>\n
Although in the modern world the works of art from the 1920\u2019s created by artists coming from the Soviet Union is now triumphing and shown in the most renowned museums in the world (I will just mention a few of the most famous names: Kazimierz Malewicz, Wassily Kandinsky, Natalia Goncharova, Marc Chagall, Lazar Lissitzky [El Lissitzky]), the music from this epoch is still waiting to be discovered.<\/p>\n
The works of Roslavets didn\u2019t appear in the program of the concert planned for the 13th of March by chance. We wanted to present the work of this revolutionary composer and remind that nowadays the music of Ludwig van Beethoven, apparently \u201esoftened and smoothed\u201d by the perception shaped by pop-culture, at its time was a synonym of modern, breaching conventions and barriers of art, also the ones that seemed irrefutable.<\/p>\n
We managed to have one rehearsal for the concert scheduled for the 13th of March. Roslavets\u2019 music resounded. Along with the Orchestra of Poznan Philharmonic we had an impression from the first notes that the music transfers us to another dimension. Similarly like in the late works of Alexander Scriabin, we can hear the tutti sound intricately woven from the polyphonic layers, which reminds us of a musical stream, a spectrum of sound. The experience is hard to describe. What\u2019s important, this type of narrative, present in some of the Prokofiev\u2019s works, was practically abandoned by subsequent generations of composers. I recommend you to listen to Roslavets\u2019 works available on the internet. I promise we will present you the premiere Polish performance of the aforementioned poem \u201eIn den Stunden des Neumonds\u201d. Meanwhile you can listen to it on Youtube:<\/p>\n