ROSLAVETS: Chamber Music [CD de audio] Moscow Trio and Roslavets

Nikolai Roslavets is among the most reviled composers in history. Coming from a Ukrainian-Belarusian peasant family, he was deeply influenced by the chromatic-ecstatic tonal language of Alexander Skriabin and would have had the capacity to become a legitimate heir and successor of this great mystic of Russian music. However, things turned out differently: Roslavets was unwilling to adapt to the artistic dogmas of the Bolshevik system and soon became a persona non grata in the Stalinist state. Declared an enemy of the state in 1929, many of his compositions were destroyed and he died alone from a stroke. It was only with Perestroika that he was officially rehabilitated. What remains of his intoxicating and highly complex music, with its synthetic chords, today enjoys high international recognition, and leading Russian artists such as the Moscow Trio make their works shine here with all their variety, as it deserves.