alfor wrote:Really good stuff, these two: Sergei V. EVSEYEV
Sonata No. 1 op. 2
Evseyev Sonata No.1 op.2.pdf
Sonata No. 2 op. 63
Evseyev Sonata No.2 op.63.pdf
Soviet anthology of contemporary foreign composers:
Dragoje Denader; Maxime Jacob; Carl Orff; Robert Muczynski; Jerzy Lefeld; Fidelio F. Finke; Lutoslawski; Turina; Ragwitz; Casella; Jean-Michel Damasse; Fred Barlow; Messiaen; Palmgren; Kochan (please help identifying compsers page 3 and 43)
Anthology foreign composers.pdf
Dear Alf, firstly thanks for your continuously interesting posts here, always highly stimulating.
The answers to your "quiz" are on page 3 Henri Tomasi (1901-1971) don't forget Russian is a language based on the sound of the word so with foreign names we can have a lot of fun, thus Henri is pronounced Aanri in Russian, thus A Tomasi on the score.
Page 43 is a Peruvian composer who married the ballet dancer Kaye McKinnon, his name is Luis Pacheco de Céspedes (1895-1984) he composed operas also and lived in Paris before 1939, with the invasion he and his wife Kaye returned to Peru and became very important people in the cultural history of Peru. Similarly here the Russians have no letter for H it is not a known sound in their language thus for H they substitute G and for the Spanish Cé which I presume is quite a hard guttural sound probably close to a G in sound, they write it as a G.
regards
Brian
What a gorgeous phrase...."what a cornucopia of delightful pieces"....and I quite agreed
Thank you Alfor. The Gonchik-Sumla was a totally new composer for me and got me digging away in my library and on-line. I could not discover much information on him but some details below. Thank you for sharing these pieces.
Malcolm
Sambyn Gonchik - Sumla (1915-1991) Mongolian composer. Founder of the national school of composition. Chairman of the Union of Composers of the MPR since its inception (1964). Much influenced by the traditions and styles of European and Russian music but utilising local Mongolian folk themes. Composed first Mongolian ballet “Ax”, operas, two symphonies, further ballets and orchestral music. Piano music includes:
Op 10 Pieces [no. 23 Prelude]
Op 11 Pieces [nos. 3 & 6 Preludes]
Op 12 Six Buryat Dances
Twenty-four Preludes (Soviet Composer 1981)
Fifteen Mongolian Melodies
Romance
Album leaf
Children’s Album (Soviet Composer 1969) 1. March 2. Cradle Song 3. Hide of a young camel [Mongolian folksong] 4. Black horse [ Mongolian foksong] 5. The kid 6. Hens 7. Chickens 8. Dance 9. Lambs 10. Children's song 11. Autumnal song 12. Conducting with a baton 13. Waltz 14. Fairytale 15. Elegy 16. Song 17. Riding on top of the horse 18. Small piece
Two Pieces (Muzgiz) 1. Dumka 2. Mongolian Dance
Zara Levina
Internet Edition compiled by Onno van Rijen
Updated 31 March 2002
Born 5 February 1906 in Simferopol (Crimea). Died 27 June 1976 in Moscow.
Education
Levina graduated with a gold medal from the Odessa Conservatory, where she studied piano under B. Dronseiko-Mironovich. In 1932 she graduated from the Moscow Conservatory having studied piano under F. Blumenfeld and composition under N. Miaskovsky and R. Gliere.
Style
In het young days in Odessa she was overwhelmed by music of Rachmaninov, Scriabin, Prokofiev as well as Beethoven and Schumann. Their influence can be traced throughout all of her works. Her gift was primarily melodical, lyrical and deeply personal. The nucleus of he creative output has been vocal music - namely romances (more than 200) followed by vocal miniatures about children. In the 1930s heroic and passionate monologues have been her natural choice. Light music extended the range of her output in the late 1940s and children's music was always a central concern. A spirit of patriotism is present in her tragic monologues of the war years and in the severe and mournful romances on African poetry that she composed during the 1960s. Her melodies are simple, but their individuality is achieved through fine detail, delicate harmony, supple modulation and varied texture.
Principal Works
Two pianoconcertos, chamber music and vocal music.
Piano Sonata No. 1 (1924-1925)
"October's Way" after M. Gorky for soloists, chorus and orchestra (1926)
Poem for viola and piano (1928)
CD Russian Disc RDCD 11382: G. Kalacheva (viola), A. Bakchiev (piano)
Sonata for violin and piano No. 1 (1928)
LP Melodiya 33M10 38009-12: D. Oistrakh (violin), Z. Levina (piano)
"Poem of Lenin" after A. Surkov for soloists, chorus and orchestra (1930)
Poem for cello and piano (1931)
Three Romances after Pushkin (1936)
Poem and Canzonetta for cello and piano (1938)
Three Pieces for piano (1940)
1. Berceuse; 2. Dance; 3. Toccata
LP Melodiya 33M10 38009-12: Dance in A flat major & Toccata in E minor, L. Brumberg (piano)
Four Romances after Lermontov (1940-1942)
Fantasy on Bashkir Themes for violin and piano (1942)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in three movements (1942)
First performance: 14 March 1945 in Moscow.
LP Melodiya 33M10 38009-12: Large Moscow Radio & TV SO, V. Kin (cond), L. Brumberg (piano)
Two Romances after Dolmatovsky (1942-1943)
Canzonetta for cello and piano (1943)
Three Symphonic Waltzes for large symphony orchestra (1945)
Two Romances after A. Surkov (1946)
"Round My Year", song cycle after O. Shiraz (1947)
"We Are Marching To the Kremlin", song after L. Nekrasova (1948)
"Children of the World for Peace", song after T. Rublev (1950)
Sonata for violin and piano No. 2 (1952)
"My Fatherland", song cycle after O. Shiraz (1952)
Piano Sonata No. 2 (1953)
Three Pieces for light orchestra (1955)
Romances after A. Isaakian, S. Kaputukian, O. Shiraz and other Armenian poets (1955)
"Ode Soldatu (Ode to the Soldiers)", vocal-symphonic triptych for soloists, mixed chorus, piano, organ and orchestra (1964)
"The Watercolours", vocal cycle to verses by Emma Moshkovskaya (1966-1967)
"The Musical Pictures", vocal cycle to verses by Emma Moshkovskaya (1966-1967)
Pieces for Youth for piano (1975)
Jewish Rhapsody (1975)
Eight Romances to verses of S. Yesenin for voice and piano (1975)
LP Melodiya 33M10 38009-12: N. Isakova (soprano, nos. 1-3), L. Belobragina (soprano, nos. 4-8), Z. Levina (piano)
Piano Concerto No. 2 in E minor (1975)
CD Russian Disc RDCD 11382: Moscow SO, V. Dudarova (cond), B. Petrushansky (piano)
Ten Pieces for violin and piano (1976)
Mountain Peaks, song after M. Lermontov
LP Melodiya 33M10 38009-12: Z. Dolukhanova(mezzo-soprano), Z. Levina (piano)
Without You I Would Like To Say, song after M. Lermontov
LP Melodiya 33M10 38009-12: Z. Dolukhanova(mezzo-soprano), Z. Levina (piano)
Patter, song after O. Driz
LP Melodiya 33M10 38009-12: Z. Dolukhanova(mezzo-soprano), Z. Levina (piano)
My Old Friend, song after O. Driz
LP Melodiya 33M10 38009-12: Z. Dolukhanova(mezzo-soprano), Z. Levina (piano)
"Album of Verses" after Lermontov, vocal cycle
Fourteen Romances after S. Marshak
Lyrical Romances
Romances after G. Rubiev, P. Gradov, L. Nekrasova, O. Driz and S. Yesinin
Thanks to Valentina Tchemberdji (daughter of Zara Levina) and Jim Semadeni from the US for additional information.
Anne-Marie ØRBECK
Rosenkavalier Waltz (nms - the piece has never been issued, it is only available as a manuscript copy at mic.no; this version has been done by an unknown (?) pianophiliac; one page missing!)
Strauss-Orbeck Rosenkavalier.pdf
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Best regards, Alfor S. Cans
Music is a higher revelation than wisdom and philosophy (Beethoven)
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