Lokshin earned most of his income from film scores and popular orchestral suites, while his symphonies and chamber music largely remained 'music for the desk drawer'.
Composition History
The concert suite In the Jungle is drawn from Lokshin's score for Alexander Zgundi's film based on Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book.
Composer Biography
Lokshin was admitted directly into the second year of composition classes at the Moscow Conservatory under the great symphonist Nikolai Myaskovsky.
Composer Biography
Alexander Lokshin's family lost their land and livestock after his father was listed as a political outlaw by the Soviet system.
Historical Context
Soviet cultural policy, particularly the new Stalinist direction, viewed any Western tendencies as imperial infiltration of the Russian national spirit, leading to Lokshin's suspension from the Conservatory.
Composition History
Lokshin's graduation work, three settings for soprano and orchestra of poems from Baudelaire's Les fleurs du mal, caused a scandal in 1941 Soviet state and was forbidden.
Performer Biography
Wolfgang Redik, the violinist on this recording, plays a J. B. Guadagnini violin built in 1772, provided by the National Bank of Austria.
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