Pianophilia

caostotale wrote:Here is a small mountain of pieces from a very obscure composer from the obscure and mountainous country of Kyrgyzstan. I'm not sure if the composer is related to another named Abdylas Maldybaev, who collaborated with the Russian/Kyrgyz composers Vladimir Fere and Vladimir Vlasov to compose a few state operas and the Kyrgyz national anthem. This is the first I've heard of Zhylaiz.

Zhylaiz Andylasovna MALDYBAEVA (MALDIBAYEVA, etc..)
Pieces, for piano
including:
Preludes (24) (1966)
Koo (19??)
Scherzo (1967)

Maldybaeva - Pieces, for piano (1990).pdf

Piano Sonata (1969)

Maldybaeva - Piano Sonata (1969).pdf

Thanks for these--I'll be scaling the mountain later tonight.

You did it again, caostotale!! Amazing discoveries and wonderful pieces I predict.

Thank you so much.

I have a friend who's been pining for months for Glazunov's "Black Key Barcarolle." Does anyone have a copy they can upload here?

I have this one. -Tracy

Jim Faston wrote: Thanks for these--I'll be scaling the mountain later tonight.

I'll be curious to know how that goes. This might sound insane, but I don't play piano and can't usually get a good idea of what I'm dealing with until I sequence it in a MIDI program. I'd love if anyone would throw up home recordings of some of this stuff, even if it's really rough.

Dani_area_51 wrote:You did it again, caostotale!! Amazing discoveries and wonderful pieces I predict.

Thank you so much.

Seconded!

...if "caos" ("chaos"?) means "disorder" and produces such rarities, please stay "disordered" !

Many thanks, tracyross, but I should have mentioned that this Barcarolle ("Barcarolle sur les touches noires") is without opus number and is in F-sharp major. Steven Coombs plays it on a Hyperion cd. This is the blurb accompanying that piece:

"A more unusual work is the Barcarolle sur les touches noires, written in 1887. For reasons unknown it was not published by Belaieff but by his rival V Bessel & Co, another Leipzig-based publishing house. Perhaps for this reason, it has no opus number. Glazunov has rather cleverly exploited its F sharp major tonality so as to ensure, as the title suggests, that the right hand plays only on the black keys of the piano. However, one of its charms is that he has successfully avoided any sense of artifice and, despite having only five pitches available for the construction of the melody, it never sounds forced or unnatural."

If you navigate to the page below, you can hear a sample of Coombs' playing:

http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/tw.asp?w=W7555

I've searched in all the usual places and can't find a copy. If anyone has this in their attic, I'd be most grateful if they'd post it here.

Not the score but a complete recording:

passthesalt wrote:Many thanks, tracyross, but I should have mentioned that this Barcarolle ("Barcarolle sur les touches noires") is without opus number and is in F-sharp major. Steven Coombs plays it on a Hyperion cd. This is the blurb accompanying that piece:

"A more unusual work is the Barcarolle sur les touches noires, written in 1887. For reasons unknown it was not published by Belaieff but by his rival V Bessel & Co, another Leipzig-based publishing house. Perhaps for this reason, it has no opus number. Glazunov has rather cleverly exploited its F sharp major tonality so as to ensure, as the title suggests, that the right hand plays only on the black keys of the piano. However, one of its charms is that he has successfully avoided any sense of artifice and, despite having only five pitches available for the construction of the melody, it never sounds forced or unnatural."

If you navigate to the page below, you can hear a sample of Coombs' playing:

http://www.hyperion-records.co.uk/tw.asp?w=W7555

I've searched in all the usual places and can't find a copy. If anyone has this in their attic, I'd be most grateful if they'd post it here.

I looked for this a while back to no avail after hearing Stephen Coombs recording. Worldcat shows it being held at the British Library and the State Library of Queensland. I'm really surprised that a copy hasn't surfaced as of yet.

alfor wrote:Not the score but a complete recording:

Aleksandr-Konstantinovich-Glazunov-Alexander-Glazunov-Works-without-Opus----1887-Barcarolle-sur-les-Touches-Noires(muzofon.com).mp3

Alfor, thanks for this beautiful performance of this piece. Definitely a score worth seeking out.