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June 4, 2007 "Russian Composers II/Matanya Ophee Interview"
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This week's program features works by two Russian composers, and an interview music publisher/historian Matanya Ophee recorded June 2, 2007.

The program begins with the Perpetuum Mobile by Matvei Pavlov-Azancheev (1888-1963), who was a cellist, conductor, and performer on the Russian 7-string guitar. While on tour, he was arrested and spent 10 years (1941-1951) in a Soviet gulag.

In an interview with Matanya Ophee, he explains that Pavlov-Azancheev was arrested for telling a joke about Stalin. During that time, Pavlov-Azancheev was able to compose, and wrote his large-scale work, Sonata #2, "The Great Patriotic War", a programmatic work designed to appease the authorities, and hopefully secure his early release. (It didnŐt work)

Nadia Borislova is a contemporary Russian composer now residing in Puebla, Mexico. Her concerto for guitar and piano, "El Tren Oceanico" combines Russian and Mexican musical elements.



Public Radio Satellite System uplink:
Wednesday, June 6, 2007 at 1300 ET Channel: A68.1

Program ID# 07-D65-00023
Title: Russian Composers II/Matanya Ophee Interview
Total length: 58:01

In Cue: MUSIC IN "Hello and welcome to.."
Out Cue: MUSIC IN "...another edition of Classical Guitar Alive!"

INTRODUCTION:

Bizet: Carmen Suite: Prelude
Los Romeros (Philips 412-609)

PROGRAM BEGINS:

Pavlov-Azancheev: Perpetuum Mobile
Oleg Timofeyev, guitar
(Hanssler 98.458)

Interview: Matanya Ophee:
"He was basically, a cellist, and an orchestra conductor, and guitarist... ...once you get this Marxist-Leninist stuff out of it, it's very good music."

Pavlov-Azancheev: Sonata #2
Oleg Timofeyev, guitar
(Hanssler 98.458)

Borislova: El Tren Oceanico
Nadia Borislova, guitar
Farizat Tchibirova, piano
(Conaculta Fonica 1999)

CLOSING THEME/FUNDING CREDITS


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