Pianophilia

alfor wrote:

caostotale wrote:Dedicated to MBallan, alfor, and everyone else who has supersaturated my life with great Soviet-era musics over these past few years. You've converted me and I hope I can do my part to unearth more of this great work....

Thank you very much! An interesting composer! Excellent piano style, but less complicated and more late-romantic than Feinberg, Protopopov and the like.

caostotale wrote:Dedicated to MBallan, alfor, and everyone else who has supersaturated my life with great Soviet-era musics over these past few years. You've converted me and I hope I can do my part to unearth more of this great work.

Vladimir Fere (1902-1971) was a Russian-born composer who studied at the Moscow conservatory before moving to the Kirghiz Republic as part of the state initiative to incorporate that country's folk culture into Soviet art. There, he worked on many collaborative musical projects with composer Vladimir Vlasov and the native Kirghiz composer Abdylas Maldybaev. Their output included six state operas. As an individual composer, it would appear that Fere had a number of his own works. This early work is from his student years (as is a piano suite marked Op./Soch. 6), but I've acquired a later cello/piano work marked Soch. 46 (which I will be posting at some point) and have read about a 113-page string quartet based on Kirghiz themes, soch. 27. Additionally, Alfor posted a copy of his piano sonata (unspecified opus #) at some point. If anybody could find any of his uncollected works, especially the chamber pieces, I would be hugely grateful.

Vladimir Georgievich FERE
Sonata for violin and piano, op. 4 (1924-25)

Fere - Sonata for violin and piano, op. 4 (1924-25).pdf