Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts

Do you have a favorite Russian composer?

Angela asked:
Do you have a favorite Russian composer?

Hello Angela!

First, I have to admit one thing. I love sad music. Sad, introverted, slow. With this being said let's move to three examples of Russian composers I like.


Mikael Tariverdiev is the best. He wrote more than 130 soundtracks for amazing Soviet movies. He won USSR State Prize (1977) and the Prize of the American Music Academy (1975).



Evgeny Grinko reminds me of Yann Tiersen.
He is young and talented.



Igor Vdovin is a bit mystical. He wrote soundtrack music for several movies also. I personally like this theme:



You can also check out my earlier posts under "music" tag.

Fresh Russian music

You probably know that most Russians do not listen to folk music all the time.
Many popular songs are being played on the radio; so what? It is not exactly music, just a product. It could be good enough but that's not the main reason radio took it (entertain VS make think/feel/discover/learn, huh?)

Music critic and journalist Artemy Troitsky gave some examples of new, interesting, fresh and/or weird Russian music here.

I took the liberty of stealing just music wraps and put them here in case you'd like to learn something new.




















altay2013: confluence one

Sometimes you see a picture, a story, a video, and you constantly feel that your blog is right about this.

I felt it again with this beautiful video made by Elena Muchnaya.
Enjoy:


CS music

When I was meeting a lot of couchsurfers on a regular basis I used to rip CDs with my fav Russian music to show foreigners what is it like, contemporary russian music.

Because folk music you listen to when you're eating caviar pancakes in fancy restaurant, well, is not real life thing.

Maybe you also would like to taste some new vibes using my recommendations. Music more or less could be labelled as folk / rock / soul / electronic. Some bands are in fact from Ukraine but they sing in Russian, too.


Zemfira

5'nizza

Flёur

Markscheider kunst

Peter Nalitch

Splean

Svetlana Surganova

Bi-2

Kim and Buran