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Sergey Zhukov | ||||||||||||||||||
composer honored art worker of Russian Federation |
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Sergey Zhukov: Concerto for Orchestra and percussions
Still unknown in
North America, Sergei Zhukov (born 1951) has only merited two or three
commercial CD recordings to date, and none of them contain his exciting
percussion concerto, redolent of early Stravinsky and easily the equal
of recent percussion concerti by Americans such as Joan Tower, John
Corigliano, and Joseph Schwantner. Much of Zhukov’s idiom follows the
generational influence of Alfred Schnittke and Sofia Gubaidulina,
eclectically mixing Russian primitivism, free atonality, genre pastiche,
and post-Soviet soul-searching (the latter at times signified by a
prepared piano). ANDREW GROSSMAN
Cacophonies and
Heavenly Choruses: A Cure for the Classical Blues |
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