Tabery:Redik:Grosses Or Graz - Lokshin: Les Fleurs Du Mal

This third disc on BIS of the orchestral music of Alexander Lokshin opens with Les fleurs du mal, his first acknowledged composition. The piece was also his graduation work after five years of study under the great Nikolai Myaskovsky at the Moscow Conservatory. Purely instrumental is also the symphonic suite In the Jungle from 1960, compiled from music written for a film based on 'The Jungle Book' by Kipling. The Art of Poetry, considered by the composer to be one of his best works, also has a Russian text, a poem by Nikolai Zabolotsky (1903-58).