Roslavets welcomed the 1917 revolutions and was appointed director of Kharkov Conservatory after the Bolshevik Revolution.
Critical Reception
Roslavets's works were attacked by the Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians (RAPM) as 'counter-revolutionary and bourgeois art for art's sake'.
Recording & Production
This recording features the world premiere performance of Nikolay Roslavets's Violin Concerto No. 2, which was completed in 1936.
Composer's Artistic Vision
Roslavets developed a new harmonic system in 1913 based on 'synthetic chords,' a concept similar to Schoenberg's early serialism.
Composition History
The full score of Roslavets's Violin Concerto No. 1 was believed lost for decades and was only unearthed in Moscow archives after composer Edison Denisov planned to reconstruct it.
Composer Biography
Nikolay Roslavets, a Russian composer, came from a genuine peasant background, unlike most of his contemporaries in the early Soviet period.
Composition History
After Roslavets's death, many of his manuscripts were confiscated by former 'proletarian musicians,' and his name was expunged from music dictionaries for thirty years.
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