“Every creative person in the Soviet Union was a victim of the regime,” says writer and musicologist Levon Hakobian in the opening moments of Anne-Kathrin Peitz’s Silenced: Composers in Revolutionary Russia. While many artists were fleeing the Soviet regime, others decided to stay and attempt to create a new world—but the authorities’ repressive stance on liberty of expression and creative output made this a nearly impossible task. Musicians Gidon Kremer, Andreas Seidel, and Igor Vorobyov offer their commentary over a soundtrack by forgotten figures like Nikolai Roslavets, Alexander Mosolov, and Arthur Lourié—victims of state censure whose work has faded from memory.

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