Russian & Soviet Composers (Misc) - Part 2

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Re: Russian & Soviet Composers (Misc)

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I have a few additional works to post for Polovinkin and hope to do so shortly.....but in the meantime, let's start on the "R"s.

Nikolai Petrovich Rakov. Born 1908, Kaluga: died 1990. Conductor, pedagogue and composer. Graduate in 1931 from the Moscow Conservatoire, where he studied composition with Gliere and Vasilenko. A year later he took up a teaching position with the conservatoire. His students included: B Tchaikovksy, Denisov, Eshpai, Gadzhiyev, K Khachaturian, Ledenyov, Muradeli, Peiko and Rozhdestvensky. As a composer he was particualrly noted for his instrumental works especially the Violin Concerto No. 1, which has remained his most popular work. His music is romantic, nationalistic, lyrical and colourful….not too dissimilar to that of his fellow composer, Kabalevsky. Piano works include:

Dances (1928)

Two Etudes (1929) Op 2 [1. A minor ** 2. E minor]
Rakov - Etude in A minor.pdf
Four Pieces for Children (1930)
1. Berceuse 2. March 3. Narrative 4. Parsley

Four Preludes Op 6 (1933)

Four Lyrical Pieces (1935)

Two Mari Pieces (1936)

Five Preludes (1936) **
Rakov N - Five Preludes.pdf
Novelettes – Ten Pieces (1937)

Poeme (1938) **
Rakov N - Poeme.pdf
Tango (1942)

Classical Suite (1943) **
1. Prelude 2. Menuet 3. Gavotte 4. Air 5. Gigue
Rakov N - Classical Suite.pdf
Two Pieces (State Publ. 1944)
1. Tango
2. Serenade

Watercolours (1945-46) – Nine Pieces **
1. Watercolours 2. Mazurka 3. Bagatelle 4. Legend 5. Intermezzo 6. Menuet 7. Scherzino 8. Novella 9. Valse
Rakov N - Aquarelles.pdf
Four Pieces for Children (1946) 1. Lullaby 2. March 3. Russian Song 4. Punch

Serenade in G minor (State Publ. 1946)

Humoresque, Waltz & Polka – Two Pianos (1948)

Variations for Piano No. 1 (1949)

Eight Pieces on Russian Folk Songs (1949)
1. Song 2. Fairytale 3. Valse 4. Mazurka 5. Polka 6. Berceuse 7. March 8. Conclusion

Piano Sonata [In a Classical Style] (1950)

Piano Sonatina No. 1 (1950/76)

“Childhood Day” Nine Pieces for Piano (1951) **
1. A Tale 2. Playing Games 3. A Song 4. Happy Entertainment 5. Reading a book 6. Mannequins 7. The Horn Player 8. A Winter Scene 9. March of the Pioneers
[later re-published as 10 pieces including an additional piece called Fantastical Story]
Rakov N - Childhood Days.pdf

2nd Piano Sonata (1954)

Piano Sonatina No. 2 (1954)

Piano Sonatina No. 3 “For the Youth” (1956)

Three Pieces (1960) 1. Scherzo 2. Song 3. Polka

Waltz-Scherzo (Murgiz 1960)

Three Pieces for Two Pianos (Murgiz 1960) 1. Mazurka 2. Melodie 3. Russian Dance

Twenty-four Pieces in all keys (Murgiz 1963) [selection **]
1. Morning lesson 2. Song 3. The leading drummer 4. Memories of a hero 5. To the walk 6. Sad melodie 7. Glow-worms 8. The Knight’s Ballade 9. Summer morning 10. Dream 11. Serious play 12. White Lilies 13. The Swallow 14. The Bully 15. Fantastic Procession 16. Snowflakes 17. Narrative 18. Dance of the bold 19. Sound of pipes 20. Fairytale 21. Going for a walk 22. In the old city 23. Prankster 24. Passing Day
Rakov N - Twenty-four pieces in all keys [Selection].pdf
Piano Sonatina No.4 in C minor “Lyrical” (1964)

10 Concert Etudes [Book 1 & 2] (1964-5) **
Rakov N - Concert Etudes Vol. 1 Nos 1-5.pdf
Rakov N - Concert Etudes Vol. 2 Nos 6-10.pdf
Piano Concerto No. 1 in G major (1969)

Piano Concerto No. 2 in C major (1969)

Three Pieces (Soviet Kompoziotr 1969) 1. Morning 2. Meditation 3. Reverie

Variations No. 2 in B minor (1969) **
Rakov N - Variations in B minor.pdf
Triptych (1970)

Piano Sonatina No. 5 “To Youth” (1971)

Piano Sonatina Nos. 6 “Fairy Tale” (1971)

Piano Sonatina No. 7 “Spring” (1972)

Piano Sonatina No. 8 “Rondo” (1972)

Piano Sonatina No. 9 “Romantic” (1972)

Piano Sonatina No. 10 “Ballade” (1972)

Piano Sonatina No. 11 “For the Little Ones” (1968)

Piano Sonatina No. 12 “Little” (1968)

Octave [Etude] (1973)

Quatre Etudes (1974) **
1. The brook 2. Bells Ringing 3. By the Sea 4. Grotesque
Rakov N - Four Etudes.pdf
Piano Sonatina No. 13 (1974)

Piano Sonatina No. 14 (1975)

Piano Sonatina No. 15

Piano Concerto No. 3 (1977)

Piano Concerto No. 4 (1977)

Piano Sonata No. 1

Heroic Suite – Two Pianos

Children’s Album – Twenty-six Pieces (1980) [selections **]
1. Friend after friends 2. They sing across the River 3. I play the Dudochke 4. First Violets 5. Seven Portraints 6. Ears of Rye 7. Mazurka in G major ** 8. Flickering Fires 9. Soon will be Spring 10. Polka in C major ** 11. Mazurka II 12. Novellette 13. Barrel-organ ** 14. Butterflies 15. Song 16. Merry Clown 17. Waltz in F# minor ** 18. Merry Amusements [Scherzino] 19. Legend in C major ** 20. Canzona 21. Gavotte 22. Swallows 23. White Lilies 24. Joke 25. Autumn Waltz** 26. Whimsical Humoresque
Rakov N - Children's Album [Selection].pdf
Music For Two Pianos (Soviet Kompozitor 1982)
1. Sad Song 2. Merry Song 3. Lyrical Waltz 4. Dance 5. Masks 6. Fantastic Shadows 7. Echos 8. An Evening Encounter 9. Animated Conversation 10. Humoresque

Dance Suite – Two Pianos (Murgiz 1950)

Concert Waltz – Two Pianos (Murgiz 1959)

Slow Waltz

Valse Fantaisie **
Rakov N - Valse-Fantaisie.pdf
Capricious Dance

Syncopated Dance

Cavantina Figaro from Rossini’s opera “Barber of Seville”

Fantasy on the Waltz from Ruzhitsky’s operetta “Kazanova”

Russian Song (publ. 1953)

Six Pieces
1. Let us dance 2. They sing across the river 3. Coo-coo 4. Feeling depressed 5. Autumn 6. Sun shines

Ten Pieces on National Folksongs
1. Melodie (Belorussian) 2. Wedding (Chuvash) 3. Song (Komi) 4. Unnaturalness (Belorussian) 5. I like to go to the meadow (Komi) 6. Tatar dance 7. That you slowly cry (Komi) 8. Russian song 9. Girls were gathered (Komi) 10. Variations on a Belorussian theme

Little Suite – Seven Pieces
1. Soon it’s Spring 2. Etude 3. Intimate Melodie 4. Mazurka 5. Pastorale 6. Dance 7. Chanson

Suite No. 2
1. Initiation 2. Burlesque 3. Mazurka 4. Pastorale 5. Dance 6. Chanson 7. Rondo

Seven Portraits [from the Children’s Album] **
1. Reverie 2. Sorrow 3. Scally-wag 4. Carefree 5. Seriously 6. Big-head 7. Aggrieved
Rakov N - Seven Portraits.pdf
“School Years”: Thirty-four Pieces [taken from various other works]
1. Piece 2. Song 3. Chromatic Piece 4. Russian Song 5. Tatar Dance 6. Melancholy Siskin – Variations 7. Little Sonatina 8. Drummer 9. Setting Off for a Walk 10. Spring Song 11. March 12. Melancholy Valse 13. Punch 14. A Knight’s Ballade 15. Jolly Races 16. Simple Polka 17. Fairytale 18. Polka 19. Waltz 20. Song 21. Avowal – Valse 22. Mazurka I
23. Mazurka II 24. Tarantella 25. Canzona 26. Two Mari Pieces 27. The Bugler Calls 28. Prelude 29. Festive Song [Chuvash] 30. Sonatina No. 3 (see above) 32. Sonatina No. 6 (see above) 32. Variations on a Byelorussian Song
33. Etude 34. Concert Etude

I stress the works list is probably incomplete, Rakov wrote a considerable amount of music and it is very difficult to track down information on the full range of his works. I have posted a number of works to reflect Rakov’s compositional style – from more complex works such as the etudes, to selections from the albums aimed at children and younger players.

I will post the four piano concertos in a new thread I will be creating shortly on Pianophilia.

Malcolm
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Re: Russian & Soviet Composers (Misc)

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Two more by Rakov, sorry if they have been already posted.
Rakov_Sonatina_No.1.pdf
Rakov_Aquarelle,_Bagatelle,_Legende,_Scherzino.pdf
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RUSSIAN-ENGLISH DICTIONARY OF MUSICAL TERMS
By Lelia Katayen and Val Telberg
Russian-English Musical Dictionary.pdf
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I don't think Rimsky-Korsakov needs much introduction here.........I'm not planning to post his solo piano works [unless there are any special requests as the vast majority of his scores are available on IMSLP] - but an arrangement by the composer of his orchestral Overture on Russian Themes for Piano / 4 hands. Alas I discovered after scanning them that IMSLP already had posted copies of his Op 6 Fantasy and Op 29 Fairytale [teach me to check more thoroughly next time :roll: ]!!

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Rimsky-Korsakov - Op 28 Overture on Russian Themes - Piano Duet [composer].pdf
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Alfor's Rarities

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Hi All - Here is a small contribution - Valery Jelobinsky - Op. 19 - Six Short Studies For Piano. A few more to come...enjoy

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Jelobinsky - Op.19 Six Studies (1-2).pdf
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Here is W. Kossenko - Etude Romantique - Op. 8, No. 11
Kossenko - Etude Romantique Op. 8, No. 11.pdf
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And... K. Korchmareff - Fairy Tale (without opus number)
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Re: Russian & Soviet Composers (Misc)

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Here is a Soviet-era folio of small piano pieces. According to the written note on the cover, it is "Dobrovolskaya - Piano Pieces." As I cannot read Cyrillic I cannot confirm this information, however it is obvious that the folio contains works by multiple composers. I have scanned the color cover as a separate attachment. Enjoy.

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Dobrovolskaya- Piano Pieces.pdf
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Also on the subject of children's pieces I am uncertain as to the group's level of interest but I have a set of "Biryulki - Little Pieces For Piano" by S. Maikapar, Op. 28 parts I and II. I remember one of Liadov's early publications was a set of Biryulki. These seem rather nice. I am again posting the cover and table of contents only and will let the membership determine as to whether the whole should be uploaded (which I will gladly do if warranted).

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Thanks to all who posted scores recently!
Those who are interested in Viktor Kosenko Etudes can find two sets on my site.
http://waltercosand.com/CosandScores/Co ... Etudes.pdf
http://waltercosand.com/CosandScores/Co ... ld_Dances/

I recommend the cd of opus 19
http://www.toccataclassics.com/cddetail.php?CN=TOCC0036
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