
Nikolai Roslavets’ Chamber Symphony is a 55-minute-long behemoth of a piece, composed in 1934/35. Note the date, which is right about the same time as
British violist Lawrence Power opens this recital disc with the first sonata by Nikolai Roslavets (1926), a performance that more than equals Yuri Bashmet’s 1993
Nikolai Roslavets (1881-1944) shared the tragic fate of many Russian composers of the first half of the century. Born in rural Ukraine, he started violin