Belarussian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra
Dimitri Kabalevsky
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Composer Biography
Kabalevsky was a renowned lecturer and writer on classical music for young audiences, often compared to Leonard Bernstein in Russia.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Kabalevsky's music was conservative in style, based on 19th-century traditions, and emphasized romantic or song-like melodicism and simple, traditional forms, making it easy to understand.
Compositional Technique
Kabalevsky is mainly considered a master of smaller forms and programmatic or 'illustrative' music, having written many scores for films, theater, and radio productions.
Composition History
Kabalevsky's Romeo and Juliet was originally incidental music for a 1956 Moscow Vakhtaganov Drama Theatre production of Shakespeare's tragedy, later transformed into a symphonic suite.
Composer Biography
Dmitry Kabalevsky, one of the most prolific Soviet composers, was a member of PROCOLL (Proletarian Collective), a group that believed revolutionary music could only come from those active in the Revolution.
Performer Biography
Anatoly Lapunov, the conductor on this album, studied at the State Conservatory of Belarus and the Leningrad Conservatory, and became Principal Conductor of the Belarussian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra in 1993.
Recording & Production
This album was recorded in December 1994 and January 1995 at the Radio Committee Recording Studio in Minsk.
