Pianophilia

I recently came across these pedagogical albums by Soviet composers:

Boris Il'ich BUDNITSKY
Pieces, for piano (Young Musicians' Library) (1976)
Contents:
· Pieces (5); 1. Nocturne, 2. Meditation, 3. Nanny's Story, 4. Woodpecker at Work (Toccata), 5. Dew on the Grass
· Wind-up Toy (Etude)
· Rooks Have Arrived
· Walking the Dog
· March
· Moonlight Garden
· Ancient Times
· Ballet Scene
· Pieces (2); 1. Elegy, 2. The Little Humpbacked Horse
· The Circus (Etude)
· Romantic Waltz
· The Negro Boy
· Memories
· Novelette
· Sonatina in f minor ----------------------------------------

Taken from the liner notes of another score:

Alexander PIRUMOV was born on February 6, 1930 in Tbilisi. After finishing a special secondary music school of the Tbilisi Conservatoire (piano), he was enrolled at the Moscow Conservatoire in 1952 which he graduated cum laud 1956 (composition) class of D. B. Kabalevsky. Under his tutorship, Pirumov finished a post-graduate course. [He] has written a large number of compositions of various genre. Among them - a symphony for string orchestra and percussions, a choral cycle a cappella on the words of R. Gamzatov ("Letters"), a cycle of romances on the words of R. Gamzatov ("Hey, man!"), an oratorio "Days of October", a children's album "24 piano pieces", organ preludes, piano compositions, etc.

Alexander PIRUMOV
Sonatinas (13), for piano (Young Musicians' Library) (1991)
http://www.mediafire.com/view/?fd9obhupb49n5zf

* I apologize for the massive size of this file. The score's pages were remarkably thin and transparent, so I could not get it to scan properly as a black & white file. Gray-scaling it improved things considerably.

Here's a set of works by Ukrainian composer Volodymyr Huba which will certainly appeal to fans of toccatas. I've not heard any of these, but the scores appear to share characteristics with Estonian composer Jean Raats and others like George Antheil or Leo Ornstein.

Volodymyr HUBA studied music at the Kiev State P. Tchaikovsky Conservatoire (which is now the National Music Academy of Ukraine) with professors L. Revutsky, B. Liatoshinsky and A. Shtoharenko. He graduated from there with a diploma in composition. He has worked as a music teacher, music editor, and a film maker. Films with his music have received awards an international Cinema Festivals. Volodymyr Huba was awarded the title of the National Artist of Ukraine.

Volodymyr HUBA
Piano Works (1988)
· Sketches (3); 1. Motif, 2. Arabesque, 3. Portrait
· Russian Tiles
· Rumor (Toccata)
· Pictures (6); 1. Autumn, 2. Old Street, 3. 'Amoroso Grazioso', 4. At the Easel, 5. Views, 6. By Candlelight
· Sonata-Toccata (Kiev)
· Prelude, 'In the shadow of the branches'
· Confession
· Perpetuum mobile

These are all magnific treats, caostotale! Thank you so much for this surprises. When I think there's not much more to discover in the soviet and russian composers thread, there's always someone who proves me wrong. So much to explore and it's really kind of you to share it all with us.

Best regards.

Samuil Feinberg - Bercuese, Op.19a First Edition - Published by 'Triton'
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feinberg wrote:Samuil Feinberg - Bercuese, Op.19a

Feinberg - Op19a Bercuese.pdf

First Edition - Published by 'Triton'
(nms)

Here's a B&W version I made---

Thank you feinberg, thank you Jim!

I am somewhat relieved that it is an ordinary Berceuse and not an obscure "Bercuese" !

Jim Faston wrote:

feinberg wrote:Samuil Feinberg - Bercuese, Op.19a

Feinberg - Op19a Bercuese.pdf

First Edition - Published by 'Triton'
(nms)

Here's a B&W version I made---

Feinberg_Berceuse.pdf

Dear Jim,

I had a look at the version you made - how do you do it?
Could you please explain your technique that you use?
Is there an appropriate thread to discuss it?
Searching for that I did not find any...

Arglmann

Dani_area_51 wrote:These are all magnific treats, caostotale! Thank you so much for this surprises. When I think there's not much more to discover in the soviet and russian composers thread, there's always someone who proves me wrong. So much to explore and it's really kind of you to share it all with us.

Best regards.

I can't possibly improve on that encomium, so I merely say an appreciative thank you.

(I note our eagle eyed orthographic eagle spotted a bercuelian typo! - well done Alfor! [Should eagle eyed have a hyphen or not?]

regards,
tobyjj

Just wanted to pass this link along. to my knowledge the works are not available elsewhere (i.e. other score databases like IMSLP). His site makes the scores and recordings available.
http://www.marutaev.ru/english/music_en.htm
Mikhail Marutaev

his sonatina is particularly delightful!
same as recording availabe on his site, played by the composer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izgGtItME2c

Scriabinoff wrote:Just wanted to pass this link along. to my knowledge the works are not available elsewhere (i.e. other score databases like IMSLP). His site makes the scores and recordings available.
http://www.marutaev.ru/english/music_en.htm
Mikhail Marutaev

his sonatina is particularly delightful!
same as recording availabe on his site, played by the composer:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izgGtItME2c

Many thanks for this--it's so "sonatinaesque." The score on the composer's website is a multipage .tif file that may give some people fits--I've PDFed it and given it a quick onceover in the process. There are other of his works available on Boris Tarakanov's site that are worth looking at.