Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra

Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra & Alexander Rudin – Nikolai Myaskovsky: Symphonies No. 17 & 20 (2023)
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Alexander Rudin and the Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra here present two symphonies by Nikolai Myaskovsky — one of the most undiscovered composers of the 20th century. In his creative legacy, Myaskovsky equals his more famous contemporaries — Prokofiev and Shostakovich.

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Ural Youth Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Rudin – Myaskovsky: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 13 (2019)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 58:22 minutes | 1,00 GB | Genre: Classical
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It was after hearing Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique” Symphony conducted by Arthur Nikisch at the age of fifteen that the young Nikolai Myaskovski turned his back on studying engineering whilst in a battalion of combat engineers in Moscow. Along with his good friend Prokofiev, he was a student of Reinhold Glière and went on to study composition with Rimsky-Korsakov and Liadov. Myaskovski was a prolific composer and although seldom recorded, he composed, among other things, some twenty-seven symphonies and directed the Moscow Conservatory for a large part of his life. He was a five-time recipient of the Stalin Prize and one of the leading composers in the Soviet regime, skilfully managing to skirt around the authorities without openly engaging in ideological confrontation. However, in 1947 he was denounced as one of the main writers of music with anti-Soviet, anti-proletarian and formalist intent along with Shostakovich, Khatchaturian and Prokofiev and his name was only cleared after he had died of cancer in 1950.

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