Russian & Soviet Composers - Part 3

[alfor]

It looks correct to me. Look at the voice leading in the chords ... then the progression makes sense.
There are surprisingly few errors in Belaieff scores compared, say, with contemporary ones published by Jurgenson. They had a hot editorial team.

Agreed! (The f double-sharp leading to the g sharp of the right hand, which in bar 9 is becoming the first note of a two-bar alto part.)

[fleubis]

I also agree that this note is correct as the voice leading makes sense and is harmonically in keeping within the period Glazunov lived--well into the 20th ventury.

[alfor]

P.S. I remember Shostakovich's vivid picture of Glazunov as a teacher:
Most remarkable was that he - when lecturing at the piano - always kept his cigar trapped between two neighboring fingers, even when playing the most intricate examples. It never slipped!

[Ferruccio]

P.S. I remember Shostakovich's vivid picture of Glazunov as a teacher:
Most remarkable was that he - when lecturing at the piano - always kept his cigar trapped between two neighboring fingers, even when playing the most intricate examples. It never slipped!

I do that, too, with my pencil when writing fingerings for students.
It works.

[HullandHellandHalifax]

Don't know what would taste better Ferruccio, the pencil or a cigar. I think the pupil would prefer the pencil though on reflection, especially if made from the wood of a fruit tree. I think Bob Newhart got it right in his famous monologue about tobacco products.
regards
Brian

[Timtin]

I remember Shostakovich's vivid picture of Glazunov as a teacher:
Most remarkable was that he - when lecturing at the piano - always kept his cigar trapped between two neighbouring fingers, even when playing the most intricate examples.

In order to cope with his focal dystonia and be able to play his own Toccata,
Schumann resorted to what he called cigar mechanics!

http://www.immm.hmtm-hannover.de/upload ... nia_01.pdf

[Aggelos]

My search showed me that this hasn't been posted here.

Shostakovich / Z. Vitkind : music from films Gadfly and Hamlet (piano 2H transcription)

Shostakovich-Vitkind__Music from Films Gadfly and Hamlet.pdf

(nms)
From the well-known webpage
http://ale07.ru/music/notes/song/fortep ... h_kino.htm

[Aggelos]

Composers of the XX century - young pianists
Stravinsky - Andantino & Larghetto

Stravinsky_Andantino&Larghetto.pdf

(nms)

from the well-known webpage
http://ale07.ru/music/notes/song/fortep ... inskyi.htm

[Aggelos]

V. Bogdanov-Berezovsky : Waltz on Three Notes

Bogdanov-Berezovsky_Waltz on three notes.pdf

Daniel G. Frenkel
Two Dances from the opera "dog in the manger" --> Lyrical duet, Carmencita

Frenkel Two Dances.pdf

(nms)
http://www.musenc.ru/html/f/frenkel5.html

(from the afore-mentioned site)

A critic and composer, Valerian Mikhaylovich Bogdanov-Berezovsky in 1919 entered the Petrograd Conservatory, where he was influenced by a circle of young fellow-composers that included his friend Shostakovich. At this time he also established himself as one of the city’s leading music critics. After graduating in 1927 he was a propagandist for contemporary music, both Western and Soviet, working closely with Asaf’yev and others. In 1940 he published his Opernoye i baletnoye tvorchestvo Chaykovskogo and Sovetskaya opera (both Leningrad and Moscow) and was appointed principal teacher of the history of Soviet music at the Leningrad Conservatory. Outstanding compositions of this period include the opera Granitsa (The Frontier). Bogdanov-Berezovsky remained in Leningrad during World War II; he devoted himself to administrative and mass-cultural work, and wrote the opera Leningradtsï (The Leningraders) during the blockade. After the war he collaborated in the Leningrad Institute for Scholarship and Research in the Theatre and Music (from 1946); in 1947 he obtained the degree of kandidat of arts. He directed the repertory division of the Leningrad Malïy Theatre, 1951–61, and the music-theatre section of the Leningrad branch of the Composers’ Union, later heading its musicology and criticism section. During this time his book Teatr operï i baleta im. Kirova(Leningrad, 1959) was published. In the 1960s he adopted a new, more dramatic style in his compositions, but he did not follow the new trends of that decade.

http://www.naxos.com/person/Valarian_Mi ... /96785.htm

[Jim Faston]

Has Alexander Tchaikovsky's Sonata No. 2 Op. 85 been published? I can't seem to locate any info on same. Here's a live recording by Mira Yevtich (the dedicatee) on Youtube .

I. Chaconne:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hQ7viHUoI4

II. Scherzo & III. Aria:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXoh0iVtBtU

The artist's site:
http://www.mira-yevtich.com/