Evolution of Russian music. Part 3 (20 - 21 centuries)

The Soviet period, despite its transience (by historical standards), is marked by a huge variety of directions, genres and approaches in music. The development of Soviet music in many respects kept pace with global trends, but at the same time it acquired many unique features, both inherited from the imperial period and completely new, developed from within.

Certainly the main diamonds of Soviet classical music are Prokofiev, Shostakovich, and Khachaturian (the latter is not included in the video, but deserves attention), whose names, despite all the accompanying difficulties, acquired a world-wide sound. There were other great names: Mosolov (musical avant-garde of the NEP era), Dzerzhinsky (socialist realism in music: simplicity and patriotism), Dunayevsky (the great songwriter of the Stalin period) and others. During the war period, musicians rendered great service to the homeland by composing a host of grandiose-heroic and sensual-lyrical works: symphonies, songs, anthems (one of which even became the national anthem and is such to this day), etc. During the Khrushchev and Brezhnev periods, the names of Sviridov, Khrennikov, Schnittke, Denisov, and others stand out, whose music is saturated with either proud patriotic and national motifs (Sviridov, Khrennikov) or the latest musical techniques (Schnittke, Denisov).

Mass music in the twentieth century underwent a short but very interesting and fruitful evolution from the secular romances characteristic of the last century, to cheerful pop music, lyrical choral and bardic songs, various directions of pop/rock/metal/rap, and the extraterrestrial sounds of electronic music. Each of these musical spheres deserves its own chronological overview.

Of course, my three-part chronological overview ("evolution") does not claim to be complete and accurate. It is merely a tribute to Russian musical culture in all its diversity, antiquity, and greatness.

Special thanks to the user Кот Потап (Kot Potap), who pointed out a serious mistake in the last version of the video. Thanks to him the selection in the video became more qualitative and authentic.

0:00 Nikolaevsky Choir - We'll bravely go into battle (Red Army version)
03:28 The Choir and Orchestra of the Central Television and the VR - The Red Army is the Strongest
06:28 Tamara Tsereteli - The Long Way
09:23 Alexander Mosolov - Iron Foundry. Music of machines
12:59 Sergei Prokofiev - Ballet Romeo and Juliet, Op. 64 Montagues and Capuletti
18:10 Opera "And Quiet Flows the Don" - Final Chorus "From the Edge to the Edge
20:01 Lyubov Orlova - March of the Enthusiasts
22:58 Red Army Choir - Holy War
25:47 Georgy Vinogradov, Alexandrov Choir - In the Front Line Forest
28:52 Alexander's Choir - The USSR Hymn (Stalin's)
32:00 Artur Eisen - Eh, the Roads
36:33 Dmitri Shostakovich - Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93: II. Allegro
40:59 Vladimir Troshin - Nights near Moscow
45:31 Iosif Kobzon, Central House Choir - May There Always Be Sunshine
48:35 Vyacheslav Mescherin ensemble of electric musical instruments - At the end of September
52:17 Muslim Magomaev - The Best City on Earth
54:49 Edison Denisov - Sun of the Incas. IV. Red Evening
1:00:18 Scythians – Years Like Birds
1:03:28 Vladimir Vysotsky - He Did Not Return from the Battle
1:05:47 VIA "Vesyolye Rebyata" - You don't care
1:08:54 Tikhon Khrennikov - Concerto in C Major No. 2, Op. 21: I. Introduction - Moderato
1:12:33 Georgy Sviridov - Suite Snowstorm. I. Troika
1:15:40 Aquarium - Count Diffuser
1:18:40 VIA "Plamya" - Constructing BAM
1:21:03 Eduard Artemiev - They're Going A Long Way
1:25:44 Kino - The Eighth-Grader
1:28:28 Zemlyane - Earth in a Porthole
1:33:06 Chas Pick - Rap
1:39:14 Aria - Tusks of Black Rocks
1:44:05 Alfred Schnittke - Ballet "Per Gynt", d. III/9-10
1:46:44 Grazhdanskaya Oborona - Health and Forever
1:51:20 Technologiya - Anything You Want
1:55:07 Bogdan Titomir - Do Like Me
1:59:18 Ivanushki International - Clouds
2:03:30 Tatu - Don't Believe, Don't Be Afraid, Don't Ask
2:06:36 Igor Kornelyuk - Voland
2:10:14 Kalevala - Goy, Deer!
2:13:30 Oxxxymiron - Eternal Jew
2:16:02 Naukograd - Zvezdopad
2:19:32 Evgeniy Grinko - It's Foggy Day

Part 1 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TONlhzmvfyo&t
Part 2 – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xGA3DNfJRk&t

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