The Connections Between Music And Visual Art
This is, nonetheless, what baffled audiences, notably in the West after he fled the Soviet Union within the Twenties, and held him again from public acceptance on a scale matching that of his good friend, Rachmaninov, whose music was much more conventionally melodic. The extra I hear his music, in reality, the extra I feel that he mixed the harmonic language of mid-period Scriabin with a melodic line closer to Mussorgsky. Listen, for example, to his Vocalise suite; it’s totally fascinating, musically fairly advanced for late Romantic music, but not in the identical class as Rachmaninov’s much more memorable Vocalise which grew to become an prompt “hit” within the classical world. The piano half, as usual for Medtner, may be very complex, right here together with some rising chromatic passages within the center that would never have occurred to Rachmaninov…and as quickly as again right here, Levental’s gentle singing is …