Joshua Saulle, Amazon.com:
...last works of Dmitri Klebanov, who was ostracized from the Stalinist guild of composers in the 1940s and spent the next 30 years of his life in creative exile in Ukraine, writing almost nothing until the 80s, when Mela Tenenbaum befriended him and renewed his creative energies. He wrote both of these works for her, but died before he could hear "Silhouettes". After the premieres, the music was lost in the disintegration of communist Russia, until Tenenbaum and the conductor Richard Kapp undertook to find the manuscripts and reunite the performers who had given the premieres of both works. They show Klebanov to be on a par with his contemporary Shostakovich, in some places more forward looking in his use of dissonance and use of exotic percussion and Japanese instruments in the Silhouettes. The viola concerto is a dramatic, tense and emotional work reflecting much of the artistic frustration Klebanov felt at his de facto exile. Modern music that is both accessible and expressive...
