For those of you who found the musical accompaniment in the last post boring, here’s another piece, a much more exciting one. It is also called “Troika” and it is the first movement of Sviridov’s “Blizzard” based on the famous short story (a Wikipedia article with plot) by Alexander Pushkin. Besides the music, enjoy some troika- and winter-related images.
The famous waltz. Just listening to this brings images of St. Petersburg to my mind.
Sviridov is a very famous Soviet composer. His most famous piece was a theme for evening news. It is called “Vremya vperyod” (“Time forward”). Although the piece above is more gentle, it’s easy to recognize similar handwriting. The evening news theme starts around 1:00.
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