School Of Nice Art And Music
This is, nonetheless, what baffled audiences, particularly in the West after he fled the Soviet Union within the Nineteen Twenties, and held him back from public acceptance on a scale matching that of his good friend, Rachmaninov, whose music was far more conventionally melodic. The more I hear his music, actually, the extra I feel that he combined the harmonic language of mid-period Scriabin with a melodic line closer to Mussorgsky. Listen, for example, to his Vocalise suite; it is utterly fascinating, musically fairly complicated for late Romantic music, but not in the identical class as Rachmaninov’s much more memorable…Continue Reading