Pianophilia

Abraxas wrote:Could someone please repost a copy of the Soirees Op. 44 of Rubinstein.

This is nos 3-6 Regards
Fred

Variations are one of my favourite muscial forms......so I have posted 4 sets of variations by different Russian/Soviet composers.

Sergey Alekseyevich Razoryonov [Razorenov]. Born 1909, St Petersburg. Graduate 1939 from the Moscow Conservatoie, where he studied with Myaskovsky. Held various teaching and editorial positions including with Muzyka (1949-73) and Sovetskiy Kompozitor. Piano works include:

Op 12 Pieces for Children (1944-45)
Fugue in F minor [4-voices] (1932)
Sonatina No. 1 for left hand (1938)
Variations on a Theme of Bach (1940)
Piano Sonata (1947)
Romance in F# minor (1955)
Ballade (1959)
Concert Etudes (1960)
Siberian Rhapsody (1961)
Sonatina No. 2 (1963)
Variations on a French Theme (1962 rev. 1966)
Prelude & Fugue (1964)
Twelve Preludes (1966-69)
Slovakian Song
Etude “Life” in B minor Mikhail Rafailovich Raukhverger. Born 1901, Odessa. Graduated as a pianist from the Moscow Conservatoire where he was apupil of Blumenfeld. Taught also at the conservatoire from 1927 and chaired its piano departmeent from 1939-41. Is well known for his music for children. Piano works include:

Sonatina No. 1 (Muzgiz 1935)
Six Lyrical Pieces (Muzgiz 1935) 1. Song 2. March 3. Bagrustnulos ?R 4. Spring Round Dance 5. without title [Etude] 7. Narrative
Eleven Pieces for Children (Muzgiz 1936)
Ten Pieces for Children (Muzgiz 1947)
“Kirgiz Miniatures” Ten Pieces (Muzgiz 1947)
Variations on a Ukrainian Folksong (Muzgiz 1950)
Eight Pieces [based on Kirgiz themes] (1960) 1. Berceuse 2. Friends 3. Grandfather’s Story 4. Horses at Pasture 5. In the Garden of the Collective Farm 6. In the Forest Glade 7. Long Enough for Sadness 8. Mischief
Twenty-Five Etudes (1966)
Sonatina No. 2 (1968)
Sonatina No. 3 (1968)
“The Snow-Queen” Opera Ballet – arr. Piano solo (1969)
Piano Concerto (1973)
“The Blue Bird” Ballet in 2 Acts, 4 Scenes [in collaboration with I. Sats] – arr. Piano solo (1985)
Sonatina No. 4
Variations on a Slovakian Theme “The Hussar”
Variations on a Scottish Theme
Variations on a theme by A Maldybayeva Vasily Petrovich Shirinsky. Born 1901, Yetaterinodar [now Krasnodar]: died 1965, Mamontovka, near Moscow. Violinist, conductor, pedagogue and composer. Graduated from the Moscow Conservatoire in 1925 as a violinist, and in 1928 as a composer. He studied with D. Krein [violin], and with Catoire and Myaskovsky [composition]. Held various performer and conductor positions with Moscow Radio orchestra (1930-32), Stanislavsky Opera Theatre orchestra (1932-36) as was also 2nd violinist with the Beethoven Quartet of the Moscow Conservatoire. Joined the faculty of the Moscow Conservatoire in 1939 – he also conducted research on Soviet music. Sabaneyev praised his compositons as showing “great taste and fine technique”. His music is tonal and accessible reflecting the conservatism of the socialist regime, a few works were considered to reflect compositions by the French Impressionists, Scriabin and Prokofiev. Piano works include:

Op 3 Variations on a Theme of Scriabin (1933)
Op 4 Piano Sonata (1929)
Op 7 Pieces [No. 3 Scherzo]
Op 17 Twenty-four Preludes (1962)
Prelude (1970)
Ninety-eight Fugues (1937-63) Dmitry Dmitriyevich Blagoy. Born 1930, Moscow: died 1986. Pianist, musicologist, and composer. Graduated from the Moscow Conservatoire in 1954 as a pianist and in 1957 as a composer. Studied with Goldenveizer [piano] and Shaporin [composition]. Joined the faculty in 1959 until his death. Piano works include:

Variations (1950)
Five Pieces for Children (1951)
Piano Concerto (1953)
Sonata – Skazka (1956)
Twelve Preludes (1957)
Prelude & Fugue in C major (1960)
Capriccio brillante for Piano & Orchestra (1960)
Variations on a Russian Theme (1960 -61)
Preludes (1962)
Etude Scherzino (1963) ?
Five Musical Pictures (1965)
Lullaby for Piano / 4 hands (1966)
Scherzo-Etude for Two Pianos (1966)
Moods (1967)
In A Child’s Life – Eleven Pieces (1968)
Improvisations [Variations] on Karel’sku Themes (1968)
“Mountainous Vision” Suite-Fantasie (1970)
Concert Transcription of a Romance by R Shumann (1970)
Easy Variations No. 1(Soviet Composer 1969)
Easy Variations No. 2 (Soviet Composer 1969)
Five Pieces 1. Dedication 2. Fleeting Moment 3. Playing Long Enough 4. Wild Dance 5. Recollection Malcolm

Malcolm:

Here is Razorenov 12 Preludes (nms):

Here is a rather rare score by Rubinstein.
Jean-Séb

More Frolov: 5 Preludes, Op.1 (nms)

Oh dear! Malcolm's great thread is about to fall off the first page, time to add something.

Here is the surprisingly hard to find Piano Sonata No.2 of Gretchaninov.

Vasil Ivanovich Pashchenko. Born 1822: died 1891, Buda-Horobiivs’ka. Composer. Lived and worked exclusively in Odessa. Very little else seems known about him. Wrote numerous works for the piano including waltzes, mazurkas, polonaises etc. many of which were based on Ukrainian themes. Very few of these works seem to have survived, and as such are very difficult to find.

I have posted three of his most well-known works:

Polonaise “On Taras Schvchenko’s Death” (Jurgenson)
Poloniase “Duma of Ukraine” (Jurgenson)
Ukrainian Folksong [transcription] (Jurgenson) Malcolm

rob wrote:

oren segev wrote:

oiseauxtristes wrote:Might anyone have any Lyatoshynsky works? The op. 38 preludes are beautiful and I'd love to play them some day.

That link will take you to Rob's post (in the old PP) of some
Lyatoshinsky's pieces (included op 38-2 versions)
They are still active

http://www.pianophilia.com/pun/viewtopic.php?id=159&p=9

Best regards
Oren

I suspect that oiseauxtristes (a Ravelian name surely?) won't have a logon-id @ the old forum. I'll see what I can do later today or tomorrow.

Rob don't worry as I have scanned copies duly posted for oiseauxtristes. Not sure which set you want from the Op 38 group so I have added both [Op 38 a & c......b was the Shevchenko Suite ].

Malc

Next in my study on the "P"'s:

Vladimir Ivanovich Pohl. Born 1875, died 1962. First educated in Kiev and later at the Moscow Conservatory. In 1904, he taught at a music school in Yalta, and from 1905 he served five years as director of the Moscow section of the Russian Music Society. In 1911 succeeded Rachmaninoff as the director of the Empress Maria Music Institute in Moscow. From 1918-19 he arranged with Makovsky a number of concerts and exhibitions at royal palaces across Yalta. After the revolution he fled Russia [circa. 1927] and settled in Paris where he was on the Council of The Belaïeff Editions, and a professor of composition at the Russian Conservatory. Pohl was associated with the circle around George Ivanovich Gurdjieff showing much interest in occult and oriental literature coupled with a study of Sufi music.

A very difficult composer to trace – he primary seems to have written a number of songs with just a few piano pieces [although finding information on his compositions has been extremely difficult to obtain]. Piano works include:

Op 17 Poem for left hand (1938 Belaieff) Op 19 Deux Morceaux [for the left hand] (Belaieff) 1. Valse-Impromptu 2. Valse Romantique

“Catarina” Polka (Gutheil)

I have posted the Op 17 Poeme for left hand. Any further information or music scores by Pohl would be much appreciated.

Malcolm

Lev Pouishnov [Pouishnoff, Puishnov]. Born 1891,Odessa: died 1959, London. Ukrainian composer and pianist. From 1907-10, he studied at the St Petersburg Conservatoire, where he received the Gold Medal and the A. Rubinstein Prize. From 1913-17 taught in Tbilisi and concertized. Settled in London in the 1920’s. Pouishnov wrote a small selection of piano miniatures, as well as an arrangement of the ballet music from “Rosemunde” by Schubert. Piano works include:

Petite Valse Une Tabatiere a Musique Quand Il Pleut……… Prelude in Bb major Two Fairytales [1. Gb major 2. A minor] “Rosamunde” Ballet Music [Schubert] - arr. Piano solo I have posted all the works I am aware that he composed. Apologies, the scores are rather large so very difficult to scan but hopefully I've managed to get everything on the page !

Malcolm