Sound Review is an anthology of music by Russian composers of the 20th and 21st centuries. The project was launched in 2020 by the Union of Composers of Russia together with Firma Melodiya. The 2022 Sound Review brings together music from different eras, from works by composers of the sixties to the music of contemporary young ones, some of whom have not turned thirty. The featured album “Seasons” contains works by four Russian composers performed by OpensoundOrchestra conducted by Stanislav Malyshev. In their pieces, each of the composers (Konstantin Komoltsev, Sergei Zyatkov, Andrei Besogonov, Anton Svetlichny) depicts one of the four seasons. These are no soundscapes at all. These are something incommensurably greater than that, something that carries philosophical reflections and has a deeply individual psychological connotation.
