Classical Music | Piano Music

Recorded on 10/30/2007, uploaded on 01/08/2009

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In this recital program, we see how early 20^th Century Russian composers influenced the music of American composers of the mid-late 20^th Century.

Mad Rush                Phillip Glass

Danse Russe from Petrushka                  Igor Stravinsky  

Stravinsky's Russian Dance (1921) is a rhythmic tour-de-force whose incessant, driving rhythms can be seen as a precursor to the Minimalist style of the1980's, represented here by Glass's Mad Rush (1979).      Gideon Rubin

Courtesy of International Music Foundation.