Russian & Soviet Composers - Part 3

[didi]

caostotale

Incredible thanks!

Didi

[fleubis]

Dear caostotale,

What an incredible treasure trove you have uncovered for all of us. The sheer quantity of available scores targeted at young children is quite astonishing. Some of these scores suggest some very precocious children with rather large hands. I am finding a lot of individuality and diversity in these collections and there are quite a few gems amongst them. I hope everyone is having as much fun playing through them as I am.

[caostotale]

You're all very welcome. I'm glad that my esoteric interests are pleasing to others. The amount of volumes released for young musicians in that region continues to impress and surprise me, especially when one considers how many different folk-inspired works were put on display in those editions. In addition to the Buryat composers volume that Relative helped me find and the Ural composers book we saw a while back, I've seen listings for full volumes dedicated to composers from Yakutia, Bashkortostan, Tuva, etc... Also, as the volume numbers show, this recent trove only serves to scratch the surface of the corpus of work and the variety of different composers who lived and worked in those regions.

It's amusing how some expressed surprise at how high the volume numbers went for a few of these series. While some of the piano editions indeed numbered pretty high, they are completely dwarfed in size by book series that were published for bayan (accordion), some of which reached 50(!) volumes in length by 1989.

[caostotale]

...continuing with the series from yesterday evening. They really loved putting Anatoly Mynov's works at the ends of these volumes for some reason . As noted, the Chudova piece was also found in one of the previously-posted mid-level volumes, but I'm pretty sure the others are new finds:

Piano Music for Children and Young Adults - Pieces by Modern Composers, vol. 3 (1983)

Otar Vasilyevich TAKTAKISHVILI (Georgia) - Abkhazian Dance
Mikhail Vyacheslavovich IORDANSKY (JORDANSKY) - Dialogues, Pieces (3), op. 84
Gayene Moiseyevna CHEBOTARYAN (CHEBOTARIAN) (Armenia) - Pieces (6) on Armenian folk themes (1980) (nos. 3-5 are canons)
Danadar KHYDYROV (Turkmenistan) - Pieces (3); 1. Riding a Donkey, 2. Elegy, 3. Magic Hours (no bio available)
A. AVERCHENKO - Miniatures (3) (1980) (no bio available)
Vladimir Mikhailovich BLOK - Variations on a Russian Comic Song
Vardan Armenovich TIGRANYAN (TIGRANIAN) (Armenia) - Etude (bio at http://translate.googleusercontent.com/ ... iF_BrD3ysg )
Oleg Yakovlevich NIRENBURG - Russian Song
Boris Grigoryevich GLUKHOV (Kyrgyzstan) - Resentment and Reconciliation, Dialogues (2) (bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... 6bih%3D989 )
Boris Mikhailovich SOKOLOV - Sonatina (1976) (bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... %25D1%2587 )
Tatiana Alekseyevna CHUDOVA - In the Old Days Spake Unto...; 1. The Sighing Swamp, 2. Mermaids Listen to Echoes and Call, 3. Creaking-Grumbling Wood Goblin, 4. Sleigh Bells Singing Under the Arch, 5. Songs Played, Horn and Balalaika Dance (previously seen in the Middle Class, vol. 13 book)
Viktor Alexandrovich POLTORATSKY - Preludes (2), op. 1/4 and op. 1/12 (1961-62) (bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... 6bih%3D989 )
Anatoly Nikolayevich MYNOV (Tatarstan) - Aquarelles (3) (1974); 1. Plucked Flowers, 2. Rays of Sunshine, 3. Fun in the Water
Anatoly Nikolayevich MYNOV (Tatarstan) - Impromptu and Toccatina (1976)
Anatoly Nikolayevich MYNOV (Tatarstan) - Pieces (2) (1982); 1. Pantomime, 2. Dance of Joy

Piano Music for Children and Young Adults - Pieces by Modern Composers, vol. 3 (1983).pdf

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[caostotale]

Piano Music for Children and Young Adults - Pieces by Modern Composers, vol. 4 (1984)

Sergei Sergeyevich PROKOFIEV - March, from the opera 'Love for Three Oranges'
Sergei Sergeyevich PROKOFIEV - Pieces (2) from the cycle 'Romeo and Juliet'; 1. Scene, 2. Dance of the Girls with Lilies
Aleksander Sergeyevich KLYUCHAREV (Tatarstan) - Forest Spirit (bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... bih%3D1020 )
Nazib Gayazovich ZHIGANOV (Tatarstan) - Fairy Tale (Skazka) (bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... %25D1%2587 )
Tomas Iosifovich KORGANOV (Armenia) - Anxiety
M. TERTERYAN (TERTERIAN) (Armenia?) - Polyphonic Piece
Dmitry Nikolayevich SMIRNOV - Suite in the Baroque Style; 1. Menuet, 2. Sarabande, 3. Rigodon, 4. Chorale
Boris Zelikovich PIGOVAT (Tajikistan, Israel) - Pieces (2); 1. Lullaby, 2. 'Sitar' Prelude (website at http://www.pigovat.com/about.html )
Jan FREIDLIN (Ukraine, Israel) - Irony
Yury Iosefovich POLUNIN - Etudes (7) (bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... CDQQ7gEwAA )
Yury Nikolayevich NAIMUSHIN - Preludes (5) (no bio available)
Anatoly Nikolayevich MYNOV (Tatarstan) - Variations (1982)
Anatoly Nikolayevich MYNOV (Tatarstan) - Pieces (2) (1983); 1. Spring Poem, 2. Scherzino

Piano Music for Children and Young Adults - Pieces by Modern Composers, vol. 4 (1984).pdf

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[caostotale]

Pieces by Bashkir Composers, for piano (1983)

Leila Zagirovna ISMAGILOVA - Variations (bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... a_ism.html )
Murad Hussainovich AKHMETOV - Prelude (from the cycle 'Kaleidoscope')
Rashit Rakhimovich ZIGANOV - Bagatelles (3) (bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... 6bih%3D989 )
Rafail Gabdulkhayevich KASIMOV - Humoresque (bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... %25D1%2587 )
Nariman Gilyazevich SABITOV - Naigryshi (nos. 4, 6, and 7 from the cycle 'Seven Folk Tunes') (bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... 6bih%3D989 )

http://www.mediafire.com/?v2p20bae8b9hbrg (greyscale, needs a squeeze)

[Scriabinoff]

Thanks for this overall "Herculean" effort! I for one happen to very much like the greyscale, I find the bar lines and with small typeset, the accidentals, so much easier to read and make out, the files can get chunky but I'm okay with that, the scans are lovely!

[Jim Faston]

Pieces by Bashkir Composers, for piano (1983)

Leila Zagirovna ISMAGILOVA - Variations (bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... a_ism.html )
Murad Hussainovich AKHMETOV - Prelude (from the cycle 'Kaleidoscope')
Rashit Rakhimovich ZIGANOV - Bagatelles (3) (bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... 6bih%3D989 )
Rafail Gabdulkhayevich KASIMOV - Humoresque (bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... %25D1%2587 )
Nariman Gilyazevich SABITOV - Naigryshi (nos. 4, 6, and 7 from the cycle 'Seven Folk Tunes') (bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... 6bih%3D989 )

http://www.mediafire.com/?v2p20bae8b9hbrg (greyscale, needs a squeeze)

Here's the squashed version, 300dpi B&W w/color cover:

Pieces by Bashkir Composers for Piano (1983) (300dpi).pdf

[pianophiliac]

I came across a quote of Scriabin regarding his sonata #2 and it got me wondering if there is any collection of anything he wrote, notebooks, letters, auto-bio. Anyone know of anything (in English!)?

Thanks

[caostotale]

Thanks for that edit, Jim. Continuing forward in that last series, here's the 5th volume, also released in 1984. The gist of the notes under the Prokofiev work is that some of the movements showed up in other operas, ballets, etc... Rob and others could probably shed more light on that. Aside from that, this volume is a bit more focused on the Western half of the Soviet Union (Baltic composers, the future ECM mainstay Valentin Silvestrov):

Piano Music for Children and Young Adults - Pieces by Modern Composers, vol. 5 (1984)

Sergei Sergeyevich PROKOFIEV - Suite on the incidental music from 'Eugene Onegin', op. 71 (1936) (arr. Z. Vitkind); 1. Onegin, 2. Lensky, 3. The Ball at Larin (Waltz, Polka, Menuet, Mazurka), 4. Petersburg Rout, 5. Letter to Onegin, Tatiana, 6. In Memory of the Waltz, 7. Postlude
Leonid Vasilyevich VISHKAREV - Prelude (bio at http://translate.googleusercontent.com/ ... 3_bHBDuX2w )
Leonid Vasilyevich VISHKAREV - The Island of Kõlli
Arnold Alexandrovich NEVOLOVICH - Gavotte (no bio available)
Arnold Alexandrovich NEVOLOVICH - Waltz
Sergei Mikhailovich SLONIMSKY - Charlie Chaplin is Whistling (bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... 6bih%3D989 )
Herman Grigoryevich OKUNEV - Piece, from the cycle 'Echoes of the North' (bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... 6bih%3D989 )
Stanislav Sergeyevich VAZHOV - In Pavlovsk Park (bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... 6bih%3D989 )
Edgar Alexandrovich ARRO (Estonia) - Moment (bio at http://translate.googleusercontent.com/ ... LqRreluFVA )
Anatoly Alexandrovich BOYARSKY (now Israel) - Fakir (works list at http://www.israelcomposers.org/Members. ... r=B&id=137 )
Anatoly Nikolayevich MYNOV (Tatarstan) - Evening
Anatoly Nikolayevich MYNOV (Tatarstan) - Starlit Night
Balys DVARIONAS (Lithuania) - Intermezzo
Valentin Vasilyovich SILVESTROV (Ukraine) - Morning Music (no. I/3 from cycle 'Music in the Old Style')
Valentin Vasilyovich SILVESTROV (Ukraine) - Evening Music (no. II/4 from cycle 'Music in the Old Style')
Gayene Moiseyevna CHEBOTARYAN (CHEBOTARIAN) (Armenia) - Aria (no. 12 from 'Polyphonic Album')

Piano Music for Children and Young Adults - Pieces by Modern Composers, vol. 5 (1984).pdf

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