Pianophilia

Dear Alfor,

thank you very much for this Smoking Sonata.
Smoking with cigarette or as clothing ?

Y. BIRYUKOV
Rhapsody

K. SOROKIN
Concert Waltz op. 39 Ernst Ludwig URAY
Thema, Variationen und Fuge (composed 1939, but late-romantic in style)

Irina ELCHEVA (Yeltcheva; Jeltschewa)
24 Preludes & Fugues vol.I (Nos. 1-12)

Remarkable opus! E. is completely at home with linear writing. Mostly diatonic and tonal, but when she steps aside of that, it at the same time sounds new, exciting and totally natural. Textures tend to be sparse, linear writing preferred. Preludes are much shorter than the fugues, many also polyphonic. She creates a world totally of her own, but occasionally there are surprises like in Prelude No. 3, which in a striking way resembles MacDowell!!

Irina ELCHEVA
24 Preludes & Fugues vol. II (Nos 13-24)

See above

Soviet Composers vol 1
Budintsky
Lalinov
Lensky
Mirzoyev

Soviet Composers vol 3
Biryukov
Sorokin

Soviet Composers vol 5
Biryukov
Zargaryan
Glachev

As always, other transliterations are possible depending on your mother tongue and personal preferences, but that's what I'd suggest.

I'll find somewhere to post a Help with Cyrillic thread - and repost my little guide to composers' names in Cyrillic...

Emil Frey and Walter Lang were the best known pianist-composers in 20th century Switzerland.
Some scores of Walter Lang are still available, but this one has been deleted for decades:

Walter LANG
12 Konzertetüden op. 26 (includes a study in fourths, dedicated to Ferruccio )

Heino ELLER
13 piano pieces on Estonian motives (original edition!)

Good pieces of only medium difficulty with an authentic flair of estonian folk music. Would make excellent teaching material. P.S. It is a bit confusing to see my own scans (which I posted at the old board) re-upload by other members. Think we should establish an archive as soon as possible!

alfor wrote:Heino ELLER
13 piano pieces on Estonian motives (original edition!)

Good pieces of only medium difficulty with an authentic flair of estonian folk music. Would make excellent teaching material.

Eller 13 pieces Estonian motives.pdf

P.S. It is a bit confusing to see my own scans (which I posted at the old board) re-upload by other members. Think we should establish an archive as soon as possible!

Thanks VERY much for this Eller scan. Between you and the generous Ms. Relative, this excellent Baltic composer may yet get his due attention around the world. This reminds me that I need to get my act together and cut a check to the Lithuanian Music Center so they'll send me the three volumes of Vytautas Bacevicius' piano works and the added volume of his organ pieces (all still in-print, I believe). If someone would be willing to scan it in, I'd be glad to mail out a copy of Bacevicius' Lithuanian Dances for piano, an extremely rare publication (from the defunct Paragon) that I managed to find recently. I just don't have a scanner and don't see myself affording one soon. As well, I copied some very rare string quartets, including Czech composer Vladimir Sommer's SQ #1 and one by Russian composer Dimitri Melkikh.

Two scores of the exiled Karol RATHAUS

Ballade (Variaions on a Hurdy-Gurdy Theme) op. 40 Four Studies after Domenico Scarlatti op. 56 (1946)
P.S. Thank you, rob. Score archive: if possible, I would prefer both a sorting by alphabet and by nationality - the letter often being a bit difficult: M. Hinson lists all exiled european composers under "USA".

alfor wrote:Anybody interested in:
Maurice Emmanuel 3 sonatinas (blocked at IMSLP,don't know why - E. died in 1938)
Jean Wiener Sonate (copyright??)

Here are ALL the 6 Sonatinas:

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=1ed4 ... fd47f2d4d5