Tolib-khon Shakhidi is a Tajik composer who trained and began his career under the musical regime of the Soviet Union. His music was occasionally performed and recorded during the Soviet era but really requires modern audio standards to come alive, at least to judge from the percussion-heavy orchestral works recorded here. The involvement of a conductor of Valery Gergiev's stature (and of the top-rank London Symphony Orchestra and Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra) apparently resulted from sheer enthusiasm on the part of ...
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Tolib-khon Shakhidi is a Tajik composer who trained and began his career under the musical regime of the Soviet Union. His music was occasionally performed and recorded during the Soviet era but really requires modern audio standards to come alive, at least to judge from the percussion-heavy orchestral works recorded here. The involvement of a conductor of Valery Gergiev's stature (and of the top-rank London Symphony Orchestra and Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra) apparently resulted from sheer enthusiasm on the part of the conductor, who grew up in central Asian Ossetia. The works here span Shakhidi's entire career; the excerpted ballet Death of Ursurer, composed in 1978, is among his earliest works, while the Clarinet Concerto was newly composed in 2010 for Russian soloist Igor Fedorov. The earlier works on the program are likely to inspire Western listeners to say that they didn't know such music--broad, splashy, nationalistic, with ambitions toward transcendence--was still being written in the...
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Tolib-khon Shakhidi. Poor. Used-Acceptable, withdrawn library disc(s) with liner notes. Disc(s) should play great without any playback issues. Disc(s) & liner notes may contain typical library markings like stickers, protective label covers, & writing. Discs may be repackaged in library style casing. Back artwork & any other promo material not included.
