Pianophilia

alfor wrote:

alfor wrote:Concert pieces by soviet composers vol. 1 (?):
Alfor thanks as always.
Do you have more info on O. S. GREBENSHIKOV?

Sorry, no infos! Please ask Malcolm, our No. 1 expert!

Concert pieces by soviet composer vol 2:
L. LAPUTIN
Capriccio
Vladimir A. PIKUL
???

Féerie (fairyland)
Thanks for your posting.

Your daily dose of alfor scores:

Dmitry D. BLAGOY
5 Musical Pictures New Piano works by soviet composers vol. II:
Yury M. ALEXANDROV
??? Poem
N. I. PEIKO
Bylina
N. N. POLYNSKY
Scherzo-Impromptu
Konstantin S. SOROKIN (nearly all of his piano works are of fine quality)
Seven Bulgarian Folk Melodies op. 37

Aggelos wrote:alfor, do you have any piano transcriptions by Dimitri Blagoi and Isaac Mikhnovski?

Thanks for the Blagoy. I may play one next month as an encore in Goldenweiser's flat (which he must have visited many times).

Here are two Mikhnovsky transcriptions.

alfor wrote: Yury M. ALEXANDROV
??? Poem

"Razliv", meaning overflow, is the name of a place with an artifical lake near St Petersburg. "Vladimir Lenin and Grigory Zinoviev were hiding from arrest in the south-western coast of Razliv (the monument "Shalash" (the Hut) was constructed in 1927, architect Alexander Gegello)".
http://www.encspb.ru/en/article.php?kod=2803998534
The same title is given to the second movement of the symphony No. 12 in D minor, Op. 112 (The Year 1917 - in Memory of Lenin) by Shostakovitch.
Jean-Séb

Thank you for the info, Jean-Séb!

Concert pieces by soviet composers vol. 4:
Yuri V. NIKOLAYEV
Toccata
N. I. GUBARKOV
Poema
V. M. YOROVSKY
Gigue from ballet ??? (concert transcription by I. Katon) Nikolai N. AGAFONNIKOV
12 Preludes archive updated (122 files)
http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=aabc ... cbd4211888

alfor wrote:
V. M. YOROVSKY
Gigue from ballet ???

Alie Parusa, the Scarlet Sails (or Crimson Sails), the name of a tale, a book, a film, and, apparently, a ballet as well.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet_Sails_(tradition)
The tale is about a toy maker's daughter. "Her fairy godmother comes to her and tells her that one day a man will come, fall in love with her, and take here away in a ship with scarlet sails. Years later when she is a young woman a man comes across her napping in the woods. He instantly falls in love with her and learning of the prophesy of the crimson sails he builds a ship with crimson sails and takes her away".

Ferruccio wrote:... und gib uns unsere wöchentliche Toccata ...

Amen, mein Sohn. So nimm den heute diese Gaben aus dem reichen musikalischen Garten Gottes:

Nicolai TCHEREPNIN
Etude op. 24, 2
Prelude op. 17,6 Aram KHATCHATURIAN
7 Recitatives & Fugues (at least the fugues are worth investigating)
Thank you for valuable infos, Jean-Séb!

Andrei M. BALANCHIVADZE
12 Romantic pieces O. ANDREYEVA
Suite: Improvisation, Prelude, Esquisse, Albumleaf (?), Scherzo (Dance)

alfor wrote:Andrei M. BALANCHIVADZE
12 Romantic pieces

Balanchivadze 12 Romantic pieces.pdf

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People might not realise that Andrei Balanchivadze is the brother of the much better known George Balanchine, the choreographer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Balanchine

Someone asked more information about Grebenshchikov - which, is duly given below.

Oleg Sergeyevich Grebenshchikov. Born 11 (24) July 1905 in Pernove, (now Pyarnu), Lithuania. Composer. Primarily studied biological sciences (1957), and gained a doctorate in geographical sciences (1970).
In 1930, studied piano and music at Belgrade university; and learned harmony and composition from Persiani and Stoyanovich, plus counterpoint from Pandora. Composition studies with N Tcherepnine, Khristich and Rayichich. Between 1928-1945 was a member of the People’s Theater and undertook further studies as ballet master and composer. Became head of the botanical section of the natural history museum of Serbia after completing university. During the years of occupation he was a participant in the people's liberation moment.
In 1953-1956 became director of the laboratory of geo-botany of the Slovakian AN in Bratislava. Then from 1956 lived in Moscow working in geo-botany for the Institute of Forestry of the USSR and in 1957 as scientific editor of the All-Union Institute of Scientific Research. In 1966 became a fellow of the USSR Institute of Geography.

- for orchestra: Overture “Gayavate” (based on Longfellow, 1936); Symphonic Scherzo (1940); Momachko stake, Serbian dance, Kalamatyanos, the dance of Greek mountaineers (1941); four Indonesian dances for ballet (1946); 2 Japanese dances (1947); Salome Dance with the head of St John (1948); Cassandra, choreographic scene based according on Schiller (1948); Fantasy on a Turkmenian melody (1953);
- for string orchestra: Cradle (1940);
- for piano quartet: Montenegrin pastoral fantasy (1966);
- for clarinet & piano: Three Greek dances (1960); Sonata-fantasy (1965): Rhapsody on Serbian themes (1971);
- for flute & piano: Krishna plays on flute (1969); trio (1935);
- for cello & piano: Poem (1964)
- for piano: Three preludes (1929); Elegy (1929): From Overseas (1930): March Velebit (1931): Rhapsody on Macedonian themes (1958): Prelude (1970); 8).
- for voice & piano: Romance “We to the stars dispatch” (1941);
- music to various plays peroformed at the People’s Theatre in Belgrade.

Malcolm