Mikhail Lukonin News
Russian opera singer (1959-2018)
- baritone
- opera, operetta, estrada
- Soviet Union, Russia
- opera singer, composer, music teacher
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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2014-12-15 01:30:02
Another BSO Worth Hearing
[…] tragedy in the fourth movement, Largo, with chorus, on a poignant Holocaust text, “In the red clay, a ditch was dug…” by Samuil Galkin (originally in Yiddish), had an apparent kinship to Yevtushenko’s “Babiy Yar,” which Shostakovich used in his Thirteenth Symphony, from about the same time as this work. The Largo is continuous with the fifth movement, Andantino; the two together amount to 17 minutes, including a third poem, “Sleep, people, rest,” by Mikhail Lukonin. The text concludes “Sleep, people, rest, the sun will rise, / Violins will play about peace on earth.” There was no shouting here; the symphony ends as quietly as it began, in muted but moving sorrow. Weinberg’s Sixth Symphony impressed this listener as important; lyrical and dramatic at once, it evinces structural cohesion and expressive depth that I often fail to find in Shostakovich. The piece constitutes a powerful reminder, too, that we in […]
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