Pianophilia

Once again, special thanks to relative!

Children's Albums by Soviet Composers, for piano, vol. 10 (Young Pianist's Library) (1987)

Edvard Mik'aeli MIRZOYAN (Armenia) - Album for Granddaughter (1984); 1. Morning, 2. Mariam, 3. Meditation, 4. Game, 5. Sad Waltz, 6. Toccatina
Shirvani Ramazanovich CHALAYEV (Dagestan) - Paths of Childhood, Pieces (7) (1984); 1. Sinbad the Sailor, 2. Icy Village, 3. Good Mood, 4. It's Time!, 5. Expectation, 6. Road, 7. A Nice Day! (bio at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shirvani_Chalaev )
Andrei Mikhailovich SEVASTYANOV - Pieces (12); 1. Sdobri in the Morning, 2. Doctor Aybolit, 3. Marina and the Rooster, 4. Small Tarantella, 5. Lullaby, 6. Artemon and Malvina, 7. New Year's Eve Waltz, 8. Story of the Partisans, 9. Tobogganning in the Mountains, 10. Humoresque, 11. Arietta, 12. Good Night! (bio at http://translate.googleusercontent.com/ ... IJBLDcWmog )
Nikolai Nikolayevich KARETNIKOV - Pieces (10) (1943-46); including two books of five works apiece, marked op. 1 and op. 2, all composed during the composer's youth (bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... bih%3D1020 )

Aleksandr Glazunov (1865-1936) - Op 48 Symphony No. 4 in Eb major in a piano solo arrangement by Emin Khachaturyan.

Malcolm

Thanks a lot for this, Malcolm. Nice to see some recent posts you've been making lately.

Best regards.

mballan wrote:Aleksandr Glazunov (1865-1936) - Op 48 Symphony No. 4 in Eb major in a piano solo arrangement by Emin Khachaturyan.

Malcolm

Glazunov - Op 48 Symphony No. 4 arr. Piano solo [E Khachaturyan].pdf

The same had been scanned and posted in June 2010 by a certain „alfor“:

viewtopic.php?t=554&p=7802#p7802

alfor wrote:

mballan wrote:Aleksandr Glazunov (1865-1936) - Op 48 Symphony No. 4 in Eb major in a piano solo arrangement by Emin Khachaturyan.

Malcolm

Glazunov - Op 48 Symphony No. 4 arr. Piano solo [E Khachaturyan].pdf

The same had been scanned and posted in June 2010 by a certain „alfor“:

viewtopic.php?t=554&p=7802#p7802

Damn...........again I missed that..........60 pages for nothing !!! Thanks for letting me know.

Malcolm

Bios for these composers can be found by searching old posts. The first set of pieces deals with different 'genres' of the Russian folk style. Descriptions are provided at the bottom of each page. Special thanks again to relative and Jim Faston for helping out with these:

Children's Albums by Soviet Composers, for piano, vol. 3 (Young Pianist's Library) (1980)

Tatiana Alekseyevna CHUDOVA - Pieces (7) in the Russian folk genres; 1. Plaintive, 2. Comic, 3. Slander, 4. Plyasovaya, 5. At the Carnival, 6. Glory!, 7. I Have Miles of Sadochke
Ildus Davletovich YAKUBOV (Tatarstan) - Children's Suite; 1. Menuet, 2. Meditation, 3. March of the Red Soldiers, 4. Sad Doll, 5. Ancient Dance, 6. Skipping Rope, 7. Joke, 8. (brief bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... bih%3D1020 )
Alexander Abramovich BERLIN (Uzbekistan) - Children's Pieces (8); 1. Comic Dance, 2. Complaint, 3. Small Scherzo, 4. Dark Forest, 5. Horseman, 6. Stubborn Donkey, 7. Lively Dance, 8. Horse Races
Robert Khakimovich GAZIZOV (Bashkortostan, later USA) - Pieces (8) for Children; 1. Pioneer Detachment, 2. A Warm Rain, 3. Look at the Clouds, 4. Cheerful Train, 5. Ray of Sunshine, 6. Waltz, 7. Song, 8. In the Dark Courtyard (bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... bih%3D1020 )
Anatoly ANDREYEV (ANDREEV) (Buryatia) - Children's Pictures (7); 1. Chickens, 2. It's Raining Out and I'm Sad, 3. Cockroach, 4. We Run through the Puddles, 5. At Dusk, Someone Sings for Ulus in the Steppe, 6. Fight and Reconciliation between Grandfather and Granddaughter, 7. I Saw it in a Dream (bio at http://translate.googleusercontent.com/ ... NgO22XnG4g , Russian-language video featurette at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZRtMi5jZuo )
Lev Markovich BIRNOV - Pieces (10) for Children; 1. Song of the Tundra, 2. Light of the Moon (French children's song), 3. No Kukui, Kukushechka!, 4. Little Waltz, 5. Latvian Lullaby, 6. Cuckoo, 7. Russian Song, 8. Fairy Tale, 9. Norwegian Dance, 10. Stubborn Beggar

Once again, thanks to relative and Jim Faston for helping with this. Lezgians, Dargwas, Laks, and Avars are all ethnic groups native to the north Caucasus state of Dagestan (currently part of the Russian Federation). Akushinsky in a region in that state. Some of Kerimov's works can be found on Youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_q ... _UDmIxjcUg

I'm not quite sure about the translations of the Uralic notebook works.

I haven't yet found even a short bio for Dyachenko, though I've seen a few quartets and other works of his, mostly published in the 1980s:

Children's Albums by Soviet Composers, for piano, vol. 4 (Young Pianist's Library) (1982)

Mikhail Iosefovich ROITERSHTEIN (ROYTERSHTEYN) - We Were at the Circus, Children's Pieces (7); 1. Overture, 2. Acrobats, Riders, 3. Marchers on Stilts, 4. Bicycling in Circles, 5. Elephant Dancing a Waltz, 6. Scientist Dogs(?), 7. Parade-Ale
Yevgeny Mikhailovich BOTYAROV - Russian Suite; 1. Wake-up Call, 2. Voices of the Village, 3. Dance with Balalaikas, 4. Grandfather's Story, 5. Vechorka
Valery DYACHENKO (DIACHENKO) - Children's Pieces (12); 1. Toy Soldier, 2. Dance of the Dolls, 3. The Old Fortress, 4. Titmouse over the Window, 5. On the Boulevard, 6. Sunbeam, 7. Angry Gnome, 8. The Shepherdess and the Chimney-Sweep, 9. Village Fete, 10. Clockwork Dancer, 11. Rain Lullaby, 12. Cowboy (no bio available)
Seyfulla Asadullayevich KERIMOV (Dagestan, Lezgian) - Pieces (7); 1. Komsomol (Dargwa song), 2. Akushinsky Dance, 3. Lak Dance, 4. Song-Dance, 5. Dramatic Dance (Avar), 6. Merry March (Small Soldiers), 7. Prelude (bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... bih%3D1020 )
Alexander Sergeyevich OHANYAN (OHANIAN) (Armenia) - Moments, Pieces (9); 1. Antique Clocks, 2. Steps, 3. Cosmic Landscape, 4. Ducklings, 5. The Ants were Alarmed, 6. The Temple Ruins, 7. Chicken Coop, 8. Starry Sky, 9. Blossoming Trees (bio at http://translate.googleusercontent.com/ ... pcRvXJEctw )
Margarita Alexandrovna KESAREVA (Ural Region) - Ural Notebook, Pieces (5) for youths; 1. The Bear Stone, 2. Spring Bells (To Shake the Ash over the Water), 3. Labor (Ah, the Brothers Cleaning the Boat), 4. Visimsky Tune (Oh, the Young Miner), 5. Ural Pereplyas (Dance of Ognevushki-Poskakushki) (bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... bih%3D1020 )

Many thanks, caostotale, for this new volume of children's pieces. There are a few gems in there. I have often wonder in Russia how many children actually perform these pieces.

fleubis wrote:Many thanks, caostotale, for thus volume of children's pieces. There are a few gems in there. I have often wonder in Russia how many children actually perform these pieces.

Dear fleubis,
I have friends who lived in Russia for some years and allowed their children to have piano lessons there and I can assure you that in Russia only the best teachers are allowed to teach the young ones and they are extremely strict and will use this sort of repertoire with them. They use only the best music and would recoil in horror at the tripe I was fed when I was 8 years old. No believe me this quality music is used extensively.
regards
Brian

Dear Brian,

I'm glad to hear that this music is being performed. Given the quantity (large!), one would hope so. As you probably know, "modern" music of this quality is rarely used by teachers in the US. Of course things may have changed in the over 60 plus years since I started.