Pianophilia

Yes, the ringing of cathedral bells is such an important aspect in all Russian music for it signifies life, and the passing thereof. And Alfor, I completely agree with you. I personally always felt that Rachmaninov's Op. 39-7 was perhaps the most compelling invocation of bells within a single piano work. It seems to encompass all things joyous, majestic and sad. Very much like the great composer himself.

And not only Rachmaninov :

Debussy Cloches à travers les feuilles
Ravel La vallée des cloches
Mompou La fuente y la campana

burgmuller wrote:Maybe you know this composer, but I discovered him yesterday, I'm fascinated with him!!I dont´see his name anywhere here. He's Armenian. Willy Weiner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1UfZIGbAnU

Thank you for recommending. I listened to a few pieces of his on Youtube. It really sounds beautiful!

phikfy wrote:
Thank you for recommending. I listened to a few pieces of his on Youtube. It really sounds beautiful!

You are welcome!!

caostotale wrote:This Georgian composer was also a epidemiologist. One of the 'Concert Piece' volumes Alfor posted has another of his works. Biographical details can be found at:

http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... CDoQ7gEwAQ

Tariel Lukich BAKRADZE
Improvisation (on a folk theme), for piano

Bakradze - Improvisation (on a folk theme), for piano.pdf

Dear caostotale,

this is from the volume: „Concert Pieces of Soviet composers Vol. IV“, published By Muzyka in 1974, which I recently aquired.
You obviously posted all pieces of this volume separately - could you explain why???

Best regards

alfor

alfor wrote: Dear caostotale,

this is from the volume: „Concert Pieces of Soviet composers Vol. IV“, published By Muzyka in 1974, which I recently aquired.
You obviously posted all pieces of this volume separately - could you explain why???

Best regards

alfor

Hi Alfor,

I did it that way because my personal preference is to file pieces first by nationality and second by the composers' surnames. WIth several of the piano volumes I posted, I also purposely excluded already-available pieces by more well-known Soviet-era composers like Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Myaskovsky, and Shchedrin.

In a similar way, with recent scans such as Eiges' sonatas, I purposely worked around works that were already available from previous contributors or the website dedicated to Eiges' work.

I must say, caostotale, that is quite an interesting way to file your scores; I just go alphabetical by last name.

Here is a handful of Armenian piano volumes published in the 1960s. The Aristakesyan work is an stand-alone publication of a piece previously included in one of the volumes shared by Alfor (see viewtopic.php?f=46&t=554&p=4466&hilit=a ... ions#p4466 ). The work appears to be the same, though it's an alternate printing.

Emin Aspetovich ARISTAKESYAN (ARISTAKESIAN)
Fantastic Variations, for piano (1964) Robert Arshakovich ATAYAN (ATAIAN) (bio at https://translate.google.com/translate? ... rev=search )
Fugues (3), for piano (1968 pub.) Martunic (Martin) Ivanovich ISRAELYAN (ISRAELIAN) (bio at https://translate.google.com/translate? ... rev=search )
Sonatina, for piano (1965)

http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Garayev,_Gara

Niyazi Hajibeyov
http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Niyazi

http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Amirov,_Fikret

http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Alizadeh,_Agshin

http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Hajiyev,_Jovdat

http://imslp.org/wiki/Category:Hajibeyov,_Uzeyir

Kara Karayev The Path of Thunder
Piano transcription by Vladimir Leyechkis ( Leyechkiss, Leyetchkiss, Leyetchkis )
nms ( unfortunately some pages are missing )