KOНЦEPTЫ B PEГИCTAHE
Tpeтий междуиародный музыковедческий симпозиум
САМАРКАНД-87
CONCERTS AT REGHISTAN
Third international musicological symposium
SAMARKAND-87
Melodiya, 1988, S30 27145 002
It was important for the Soviet authorities to organise major cultural events, particularly musical ones, showcasing the traditional cultures of the peoples that made up the USSR. Leaving aside the purely political aspect, these meetings enabled artists to perform outside their republic and to record and for us it was an opportunity to listen to music that was still rare outside the Soviet Union at the time.
This third edition called on the republics of Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Kirghizstan.
Side A has Kazakh dombra music, singing and one track by an instrumental ensemble.
Side B has three Turkmen and four Kirghiz items with singing, dutar, temir-komyz and chupo choor.
Of course this is ''soviet'' music with artists who had to perform within a certain framework; most of the pieces of music are compositions with some traditional stuff like a fragment of the epic song ''Korogly''.
Another disc I borrowed in Paris at the Soviet Cultural Centre in the late eighties.