Russian & Soviet Composers - Part 3

[Timtin]

Fans of Prokofiev's piano concertos have a rare chance to
hear all 5 works at the Proms in London tonight. Will this
'box set' type of concert programming ever catch on?
Neither No.4 nor No.5 have been performed there before,
which I find a slightly shocking statistic.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e848gw

[mballan]

Salon music was as popular in Russia as across Europe and the States - and produced its own set of composers eager to create works to satisfy public demand. I discovered a Russian website that covers a number of these salon pieces:

http://www.starinnye-noty.ru/

- well worth a visit (you could probably use Google and get it to translate for you). I have posted some of the works to be found on that site that are a little more unusual and purely Russian (also includes some of the Prisovsky I posted last week). The vast majority of these composers and works are from the time period 1880 - 1914 (brief bios given where known).

Jules Nagel - St Petersburg pianist and composer. Wrote a large number of salon pieces often in collaboration with Michael Steinberg (another prolific salon composer in St Petersburg).

Nagel J - 'Gandza' Polka-Song transcription.pdf

Sheinberg M - Egyptian Night from 'Cleopatra'.pdf

A Kulesza (Kuleshov) - bio ?

Kulesza A - Op 68 Ukrainian Cossack.pdf

L M Vigdorovich - salon composer based in Kiev.

Vigdorovich L - Op 64 Arabian Dance.pdf

Alexander Tsarsman (1873-1939) - danser at the Bolshoi Theatre who also composed a number of salon pieces often with dance moves printed alongside the music.

Tsarsman A - Ballroom Lezginka.pdf

Tsarsman A - 'Geisha' Salon Dance.pdf

Aleksandr Naumovich Tsfasman (1906-1971) Noted Soviet Jazz pianist, conductor and composer - previous pieces have been posted on Pianophilia. Here is one of his earliest pieces written when he was 20 years of age and studying at the conservatoire.

Tsfasman A - Savoy Blues.pdf

Vladislav Ivanovich Zaremba (1833-1902). Ukrainian pianist, composer and teacher. Father to Sigizmund, brother to Nikolai Zaremba. Studied with Kocipiński in Kamenets-Podolsky, and then at the Lyiv Institute, where he later in 1862, returned to teach piano and voice. Best remembered for his songs and romances.

Zaremba V - Fantasie on an Ukrainian Song by Kryzhanovsky E.pdf

[Riodk]

Nice batch Malcolm, thanks !

[Dani_area_51]

Very nice, Malcolm! Thank you for the interesting pieces!

[fleubis]

Thank you, Malcolm. Greatly enjoying these pieces today.

[Crow]

Thank you for the interest to my site (http://www.starinnye-noty.ru). I am upgrading it with new pdf's every 1-3 days. Your wishes are welcome. Dmitry

[Timtin]

Thanks 'fourthed' by me, and great link!
Does anyone know where to find Nikolay Sokolov's 4-hand
arrangement of Rimsky-Korsakov's Symphony No.3 please?

[phikfy]

Thank you for the interest to my site (http://www.starinnye-noty.ru). I am upgrading it with new pdf's every 1-3 days. Your wishes are welcome. Dmitry

What a great site!! Thanks Dmitry. And thanks Malcolm for introducing.

[Jean-Séb]

Dmitry, I just love your site. Thank you for sharing all this lovely salon music, including lots of Russian pieces I was not familiar with.

[fleubis]

Dmitry, you site is coming along just great! Google Translate works fine for us non-Russian speakers.