Anthology of Piano Music by Russian and Soviet Composers

Release Date: 2nd Feb 2015
Catalogue No: MELCD1002291
Label: Melodiya
Series: Piano Music by Russian & Soviet Composers
Length: 62 minutes

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Glinka: A Greeting to My Native Land: I. Souvenir d'une mazurka

Work length4:34

Vyacheslav Gryaznov

Glinka: Variations on Alyabyev's Romance "The Nightingale"

Work length7:47

Vyacheslav Gryaznov

Rebikov: Waltz in F sharp minor

Work length2:28

Aleksey Chernov

Rebikov: The Christmas Tree, Op. 21, Scene 2: Waltz

Work length2:26

Aleksey Chernov

Liadov: Three Pieces Op. 57

Work length3:18

Aleksey Chernov

No. 2, Waltz

Track length2:04

No. 3, Mazurka

Track length1:14

Excerpt, Arensky: Characteristic Pieces (24), Op. 36

Work length12:27

Mikhail Turpanov

No. 4, Petite ballade

Track length2:06

No. 16, Élégie

Track length3:51

No. 5, Consolation

Track length1:57

No. 14, Scherzino

Track length1:34

No. 24, Aux champs

Track length2:59

Tchaikovsky: Pieces (2) for piano, Op. 1

Work length11:58

Rustam Khanmurzin

No. 1, Scherzo à la russe

Track length6:33

No. 2, Impromptu

Track length5:25

Tchaikovsky: Chanson triste, Op. 40 No. 2

Work length2:34

Rustam Khanmurzin

Rubinstein, A: 7 National Dances, Op. 82: VI. Russkaya I Trepak

Work length7:17

Nikita Mndoyants

Taneyev, S: Prelude and Fugue, Op. 29

Work length7:48

Nikita Mndoyants

I. Prelude

Track length3:58

II. Fugue

Track length3:50

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This eighth disc of the Anthology of Russian Piano Music is dedicated to the roots of Russian piano school and encompasses the first hundred years of its development in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

The acknowledged Russian classical composers Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Taneyev and Lyadov are here (represented with rarely performed works though), along with little known or now completely forgotten composers such as Rubinstein, Rebikov and Arensky.

A unique journey across the pages of lyrical and dramatic traditions of Russian pianism allows us to see how general European trends of piano music were combined with national attributes of domestic culture. Taneyev’s Prelude and Fugue in G sharp minor is a climax of the album – a grandiose polyphonic cycle, one of the peaks of Russian music of the pre-revolution period.

The works of the Russian composers are performed by young pianists - graduates of the Moscow Conservatory and prize-winners of prestigious international competitions, who are worthy representatives of a new generation of Russian music performing school – Vyacheslav Gryaznov, Alexei Chernov, Mikhail Turpanov, Rustam Khanmurzin and Nikita Mndoyants.

Anthology of Piano Music by Russian and Soviet Composers

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