One of the most important discoveries the label Marco Polo has made in its voyage as "the label of discovery" is the long forgotten orchestral music of conductor Igor Markevitch. Self-styled as the last discovery of impresario Sergei Diaghilev and married to the daughter of dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, Markevitch continued the 1920s-era modernist style set forth by composers such as Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Honegger, and Varèse into the 1930s when Stravinsky and Prokofiev had moved into neo-classicism, Honegger into the movies, ...
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One of the most important discoveries the label Marco Polo has made in its voyage as "the label of discovery" is the long forgotten orchestral music of conductor Igor Markevitch. Self-styled as the last discovery of impresario Sergei Diaghilev and married to the daughter of dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, Markevitch continued the 1920s-era modernist style set forth by composers such as Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Honegger, and Varèse into the 1930s when Stravinsky and Prokofiev had moved into neo-classicism, Honegger into the movies, and Varèse into his long, self-imposed silence as a composer. Well before Varèse finally picked up the ball again, Markevitch was trapped in a compositional silence of his own, one that would last the rest of his life.Igor Markevitch: Complete Orchestral Works, Vol. 1, contains what may well be Markevitch's most intense and personal orchestral statement, the symphonic poem Le Nouvel Age (1937). While not obviously a latter-day product of the Russian Futurist ethos -- already suppressed...
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