Interesting that, despite being written later than the Ustvolskaya, and by an Estonian, this work sounds much more “Soviet” by comparison – the brittle militarism that’s so prevalent in it seems to have been a kind of lingua franca among a great number of the composers living under that regime, individual stylistic nuances notwithstanding.
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Interesting that, despite being written later than the Ustvolskaya, and by an Estonian, this work sounds much more “Soviet” by comparison – the brittle militarism that’s so prevalent in it seems to have been a kind of lingua franca among a great number of the composers living under that regime, individual stylistic nuances notwithstanding.