Kara Karayev
The Seven Beauties, Don Quixote Suite et al 
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits
CHANDOS CHSA5203

Kara (or Gara) Karayev (1918-1982) was an Azerbaijani composer, teacher and folklore authority, described as an “artistic dynamo”. The fact that the notorious musical apparatchik Tikhon Khrennikov delivered an encomium in his memory reinforces Karayev’s position as part of the Soviet...