Golovanov

It goes without saying that recording has transformed music from an evanescent art to one which can be readily preserved for the study and enjoyment of future generations. the EMI Great Conductors Edition - Nikolai Golovanov Among its services is the perpetuation of the art of musicians who were barely known in their time outside their own immediate spheres of influence. Golovanov surely was among these. Although he was the dominant force in Russian opera for nearly thirty years, he was summarily purged in 1952 (literally refused admission to his opera house one morning), died the following year and was conveniently forgotten as a political imperative of Soviet rewriting of Russian cultural history. Only recently have his records resurfaced to reveal an extraordinary outsized personality, a visionary galaxies apart from the polished discipline of Mravinsky and others who better towed the party line, both politically and aesthetically, and whose art has been touted as representing the Soviet ideal. Over half this set is devoted to five Liszt tone poems from Golovanov's pioneering set.

Nell’impulso irrefrenabile che ci spinge talora a strapparci alla nostra sedentarietà e a partire verso una meta ignota non c’è quasi mai nulla di razionale; sono piuttosto le nostre antenne a suggerirci su quali sentieri potrà placarsi, forse, l’irrequietezza che ci consuma. Lo sa bene Vasilij Golovanov, che ha elevato la prassi del «viaggio insensato», oltre che a esercizio spirituale, a vero e proprio genere letterario. Le sue «derive» ci conducono verso destinazioni improbabili, e non importa che si tratti della sorgente quasi invisibile dello sterminato Volga o del suo delta nel Mar Caspio – uno dei «luoghi più volatili della Storia», dove ogni ondata migratoria ha lasciato, come su una lavagna, una traccia di civilizzazione inesorabilmente rimossa da quella successiva..

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