Russian Musical History : Michael Parloff

Michael Parloff provides insight into the History of Russian Music.

This 2-part Encounter was recorded on July 15, 2016 at Music@Menlo; Chamber Music Festival and Institute, David Finckel and Wu Han, Artistic Directors Part 1 (ca. 65’) focuses on 19th-century Russian composers including Mikhail Glinka, the so-called Mighty Five (Mili Balakirev, Alexander Borodin, César Cui, Modest Mussorgsky, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov), and the opposing school that included Anton Rubinstein and Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Part 2 (ca. 71’) can also be viewed on YouTube at • Michael Parloff: Lecture on Russian M... Part 2 focuses on Igor Stravinsky and his three early ballets for Sergei Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes: The Firebird, Petrouchka, and The Rite of Spring. Part 2 concludes with a discussion about Sergei Prokofiev and Igor Shostakovich as representatives of the school of Russian composers who were more directly impacted by and the rise of Stalin and the Soviet Union during the 20th century.

Video edited by Michael Manke