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Nikita Koshkin

Usher Valse “after Edgar Allen Poe”  Play

Beau Benson Guitar

Recorded on 07/19/2005, uploaded on 01/16/2009

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Usher Valse "After Edgar Allen Poe"         Nikita Koshkin

Nikita Koshkin (b. 1956) studied composition with Dmitri Shostakovich, but has gained notoriety mostly through his work as a performer and composer of music for the classical guitar.  Usher Valse was inspired by Edgar Allen Poe's short story The Fall of the House of Usher, in which the character Usher is accustomed to improvising wild variations of Weber's Last Waltz on the guitar.  Koshkin succeeds in capturing the macabre feel of the story with this passacaglia like waltz, which grows in intensity until it reaches a near frenzy.  He also employs special effects such as the "Bartok pizzicato" and bending of strings, contributing to the undercurrent of madness.    Beau Benson

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