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A number of piano and vocal works of Arthur Lourié have just appeard on IMSLP.

Jim Faston wrote:A number of piano and vocal works of Arthur Lourié have just appeard on IMSLP.

Thanks for letting us know. The copy of Syntheses is excellent ... I learned this piece from a truly terrible copy. I can see the notes properly at last!

Thanks, Jim. Some very interesting pieces there by Lourie.

As before, special thanks to relative and Jim Faston for helping make these curious pedagogical volumes available. Here is number 6, from 1984. I've not heard much by any of these composers, but Gleb Sedelnikov has a few recordings available on eBay and Amazon, including an interesting opera for voices and string quartet based on Dostoyevsky's debut novel Poor Folk. That composer's Children's Book no. 1 appeared in a previous issue from this series.

Children's Albums by Soviet Composers, for piano, vol. 6 (Young Pianist's Library) (1984)

Tatyana Borisovna NAZAROVA-METNER - Picture-Pieces (18); 1. Early Morning, 2. Morning at the Summer Camp (Etude), 3. The Musical Box, 4. Evening in the Village, 5. Teaser, 6. June Morning, 7. Mournful Tune, 8. In the Berries, 9. Timurovtsy (see http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... bih%3D1020 ), 10. In the Pictures of Levitan (Pedalling Prelude), 11. Dance of the Icicles (Etude), 12. Evening in the Forest, 13. Song-Tale (Pesenka-Skazka), 14. Village Tunes, 15. Lullaby of Snow White (Belosnezhky), 16. Cheerful Rain, 17. While Skipping Rope (Etude), 18. Variations on Historical Troubles (on the theme of the Russian folk song 'In the Dark Forest') (no composer's bio available)
Robert Armenakovich PETROSYAN (PETROSIAN) (Armenia) - Children's Pieces (6); 1. Humoresque, 2. Fugato, 3. Reminiscence, 4. Skipping Rope, 5. Hammers, 6. Fugetta (bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... bih%3D1020 )
CHEN BAO (China, Ukraine) - Children's Pieces (7); 1. Going to School, 2. Prattling, 3. Arabian Dancer, 4. Evening Fairy Tale, 5. Cheerful Cheburashka, 6. Rustic Dance, 7. Small Toccata
Gleb Serafimovich SEDELNIKOV - Children's Book no. 2; 1. Bugler's March, 2. Instructive Andantino from an Old School Textbook, 3. On a Large Recess, 4. Lena, 5. Pool of Dreams, 6. Sounds of the Mysterious Forest, 7. Where I'm Going, I Don't Know, 8. In a B Minor Mood, 9. Twilight, 10. Etude in A Major, 11. Song of a Momentary Thunderstorm, 12. Procession of Colored Pencils
Valery Yuryevich KALISTRATOV (Bashkortostan) - Pictures of Russian Fairy Tales (10); 1. The Fabulous City, 2. The Swan Princess, 3. The Old Storyteller, 4. Baba Yaga, 5. Magic Hours, 6. The Humpbacked Horse, 7. The Firebird, 8. Arrival of the Overseas Guest, 9. Guslyary, 10. Ivanushka (bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... bih%3D1020 )

Thanks again to relative and Jim. This volume followed the previous one later in 1984 and features (a.) considerable amount of ethnic variety and (b.) a set of works that John Cage might have loved. I hope everybody has a safe and happy New Year's Eve (i.e. try not to spill too many drinks into the piano ).

Children's Albums by Soviet Composers, for piano, vol. 7 (Young Pianist's Library) (1984)

Nikolai Borisovich GORLOV - The Mushroom Forest, pieces (5); 1. The Mushroom Forest, 2. The White Mushroom, 3. Russula, 4. A Leaf or a Mushroom?, 5. Mushroom!
Durdy NURYEV (NURIYEV, NURYIEV) (Turkmenistan) - Pieces (6); 1. Waltz, 2. Canon, 3. Tune, 4. Lullaby, 5. March, 6. A Fun Game
Lyudmila Alekseyevna NOVOSELOVA (NOVOSYOLOVA) (Mari El, Chuvashia) - Chuvash Sketches, Book 2 (10); 1. Tune, 2. Go Ahead to Bed!, 3. Doll's Lullaby, 4. Catch Me!, 5. Little Legend, 6. Rhymes, 7. Story of the Hunter, 8. Skipping, 9. Wind-Up Bear, 10. Bully
Areg Akopovich LUSINYAN (LUSINIAN) (Armenia) - Children's Pieces (10); 1. Tick-Tock, 2. Canary, 3. Duck-Neudachka (?), 4. Bear Looking for its Cub, 5. Catch Me!, 6. Spinning-Wheel, 7. My Grandfather, 8. Collection of Pomegranates, 9. The Little Lezgin, 10. Farewell
Amnun Iskhakovich YADGAROV (Tajikistan) - Pieces (6); 1. Stroll, 2. Song Without Words, 3. A Fun Game, 4. Counting, 5. Piece, 6. Dance
Zuo ZHEN-GUAN (Tszo CHZHEN'-GUAN') (China, later USSR) - Children's Pieces (8); 1. Beautiful Scenery, 2. Dance, 3. Reminiscence, 4. Game, 5. Lullaby, 6. Prankster, 7. Flute, 8. Drums and Gongs (interview at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... bih%3D1020 )
Inna Abramovna ZHVANETSKAYA (Ukraine) - Children's Pieces, Book 2 (9); 1. Cheerful Song, 2. At the Edge, 3. Dance, 4. Plangent, 5. On the Road, 6. Sad Song, 7. Olympic March, 8. At the Parade, 9. In October
Magomed Azizhanovich HUSEYNOV (GUSEYNOV) (Dagestan) - Children's Album, pieces (8); 1. Joyfulness, 2. Tale, 3. Lyrical Fragment, 4. Riddle, 5. The Wide Open Samur (river in southern Dagestan), 6. Unexpected Encounter, 7. The Fortress at Naryn-Kala, 8. Dance of the Weeper (basic info and music sample at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... bih%3D1020 )

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Dear Emil,

thank you very much for Alexandrov and Evse(ye)ev!!

A happy New Year!

alfor

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