Pianophilia

Uzeyir Hajibeyov (or Hajibeili, or Gadzhibekov) - "Beloved" (az. Sevgili Janan, rus. Vozlublennaya), in original - romance with the words of Nizami's gazelle poem (Baku, Azerbaijan, 1943).
Transcription for piano solo by Georgy Burstein, published in Baku, 1966 (the file). Original version in the soviet azerbaijan movie "Bachtiar", 1955 (singer Rashid Beibutov): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dTZHzUsIKns

A scan of Makar Yekmalian,'s lovely Nocturne in B-flat minor was uploaded to IMSLP, but sadly remains stuck in the copyright approval process. It may or may not clear. In the discussion of same,
http://imslp.org/index.php?title=Specia ... read=19100
this link was given:
https://issuu.com/haigavakian9/docs/mak ... _for_piano
A nicely typset edition of Yekmalian piano works by Haig Avakian available for free download. (You will probably need to register.) There are also a number of other excellent typesets of piano, instrumental and orchestral works by this editor that are well worth investigating, and probably more scores on that site to be found.
Here's a recording on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zD5hoecKzvQ

EDIT: It looks like all of Haig Avakian's editions are also available on archive.org.
https://archive.org/search.php?query=cr ... Avakian%22

Thanks Jim. Great to have the Bb minor Nocturne and who knows what gems await in that archive.


jeremy

Worth a listen... there are some gems in here I am sure you will like Jeremy!

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=P ... Mr68Kmn0Lx
https://itunes.apple.com/nl/album/homma ... mpt=uo%3D4

Best,
Parag

The Nocturne scan on IMSLP has just cleared as well.

I heard this ballet on the radio two days ago; it was fantastic!

Crow wrote:Several selected pieces from the Seven beauties ballet

Kara-Karayev_Girlfriends-dance_fron_Seven-Beauties.pdf

Kara-Karayev_[Azerbaijanian]-Dance_from_Seven-Beauties.pdf

Kara-Karayev_Palace-girldancers-dance_from_Seven-Beauties.pdf

Karayev-Leechkis_Famous-Valse_from_Seven-Beauties.pdf

Kara-Karayev_Artisans-dance_from_Seven-Beauties.pdf

crologist wrote:Does anybody have the piano scores of Armenian songs in arrangment by Robert Andreasyan ( 'Garun A' = 'Spring') and Georgy Sardjian?

It appears that Robert Andreasyan (1913-1971) published a collection of 11 pieces in 1965 which included the 6 Komitas arrangements.

There's a copy of Garun A on Scribd - could someone with an account kindy grab a copy for us?
https://www.scribd.com/doc/126637281/Ga ... et-Komitas

That file may have come from this site. (Link dead or possibly malformed)
https://www.leschroniquesdupiano.com/fi ... 360324.pdf

A scan of that book would be gold, but any other of his arrangements would be also be greatly appreciated.

Jim Faston wrote:
It appears that Robert Andreasyan (1913-1971) published a collection of 11 pieces in 1965 which included the 6 Komitas arrangements.

There's a copy of Garun A on Scribd - could someone with an account kindy grab a copy for us?
https://www.scribd.com/doc/126637281/Ga ... et-Komitas

I think I can help :

Help indeed! Many thanks.

I see listed in Worldcat a single Prelude by Eduard Bagdasaryan issued by Peters in 1962 (apparently a reprint from an Armenian edition and out of print). Is anyone familiar with this, i.e., is this a separate piece or is it extracted from the set of 24 Preludes? Thanks.

I'm still trying to locate the missing page to the set of 24 without luck.