Pianophilia

Two versions (published and typeset) of Moscow Nights as arranged by Van Cliburn. -nms- Unknown transcriber – the typeset version appears to identical to the published one. Pretty faithful reproduction. Was this in fact VC's arrangement or a performance/reworking of an existing arrangement? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkxSgmoqpTs

Malcolm, I continue to be impressed with the thriving business of publishing children's pieces like Monasypov as in your recent postings. Quite a lot of material for children to digest. I recall in my (brief) teachings days focusing on Bartok & Dello-Joio and nary a Russian name in sight. Well that was decades ago, and it's a whole new world. Thanks for posting Malcolm.

Jim, I've not heard that Moscow Nights tune in decades! Brings back memories. Thanks for that beautiful typeset edition. All this makes be glad to be old and having the time to play through all this material (even though that's the only advantage I can think of!)

Of course writing pieces for the young was a safer bet during earlier Soviet times, especially through the Stalin period...........but the Russians seem to enjoy writing works for children, and examples of that still can be found today (and these are often enjoyable works in their own way, and sometimes a little more difficult than one would imagine). There are a whole host of composers who became noted to their works for children, one of the best know being Kabalevsky, but there are many others........Sorokin calls to mind. Some years ago on a visit to Ukraine, I attended various music schools in the area (Chernihiv & Kyiv) and was completely stunned at the quality of playing from children young that 10 years of age !

Latest batch of Tatar composers - you can have two today to review (and a couple also in the two piano thread).

Malcolm

Mansur Akhmetovich Mazafarov (1902-1966) Zemfira Khamidovna Mushtari (1943 - )

One of a new generation of Tatar composers: Emil Nizamov (1986 - )

These works are quite approachable, performance of one of the Beatles preludes on YouTube, for example.

Malcolm

Thanks for all these Malcolm, though for me it is no surprise at the quality and quantity of music for children. A few years ago a friend of ours went with her husband to work in Moscow, he was a banker and was expected to be there for at least 5 years, so they arranged piano lessons for their children and it was told to them and obvious immediately that the Russian music system places the greatest importance on teaching young children properly with the best teachers, and naturally the music reflected that. There was never the question of anyone can teach children, they had to the best trained teachers of a high technical standard for as they said, for children to want to learn and enjoy the process, only the best was good enough and only the best teachers were allowed to teach children.
We can learn a lot from the Russian system.
best wishes
Brian

Our next Tatar composer: Aleksandr Mikhailovich Rudenko (1947-2013)

Additional work in Two Piano thread as well.

Malcolm

Three Tatar composers today.

Salikh Zamaletdinovich Saidashev (1900-54) - only wrote a few pieces for piano, the majority of his music was for theatre and music-dramas, and as such a number of pieces have been transcribed. See Two Piano thread for four transcribed works.

Ismay Gaynutdinovich Shamsutdinov (1910-1982)
Shamil Kamilevich Sharifullin (1949-2007)

Has anyone investigated the recently discovered Preludes Opus 1 of Kabalevsky? A score can be purchased from Nimbus here:
https://www.wyastone.co.uk/kabalevsky-op1.html

There is also a recording by the editor on this CD:
https://www.wyastone.co.uk/kabalevsky-a ... ieces.html

The Preludes are also up on YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyLTfy0doTA

Funny you should ask Jim................but have Kabalevsky Op 1 preludes and the Cd on order.

My penultimate Tatar composer: Mikhail Alekseevich Yudin (1893-1948)

Two sets of five preludes - please note one of these is in manuscript but very clean handwriting.

Malcolm

A set of five short children's pieces by German Galynin – "The Zoo." --nms-- Seeking the three transcriptions from "The Tamer Tamed" and Dance from the three pieces composed around 1939. (Not the Dance from the Piano Suite) We already have the Waltz and Scherzo courtesy of Malcolm. As always, another scores welcome. Thanks.

Olga Solovieva's first disc of GG's piano music can be found here:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=O ... qQkb_2p9l4