Alfor's Rarities

[lutoslawski]

Well, let's begin with:
Anatoly N. ALEXANDROV
(Nearly complete) Piano works Vol. I
(contains a lot of early works which are IMHO often more complex and more exciting
than the late works, many of which are a bit too "altersmilde" for my taste)

Alexandrov Piano works vol.IA.pdf

Alexandrov Piano works vol.IB.pdf

Thanks a lot !
And yet again , there is only op.31 no.2 , and not others of the op.33 haha.

Tony

[alfor]

Thanks a lot !
And yet again , there is only op.31 no.2 , and not others of the op.33 haha.

Tony

..that is why I said: "nearly complete"...

[fleubis]

Alfor, thanks so very much for posting Vol 1 of Alexandrov. There are more pieces here that I've not seen before. It's like a gourmet feast on my piano desk with all this remarkable music. You are quite right, from what I've seen Alexandrov's style seems to have morph into a simpler style as his opus numbers increased but at the same time become more melodic. I'm beginning to doubt the existence of the other Op.31 Etudes, as surely they would have been in this first volume collection.

[fleubis]

Lydia AUSTER
Piano concerto op. 18
nomen NON est omen: this music is not austere at all!!

Auster PC op.18.pdf.part1.rar

Auster PC op.18.pdf.part2.rar

Lydia Auster
Born: 30 May 1912 — Petropavlovsk — Kazakhstan
Died: 3 April 1993 — Tallinn — Estonia

She studied piano with L. Shtsherbakova and composition with M. Nevitov at the Omsk Music Technicum from 1927 until 1931. From 1931 until 1934 she studied composition with M. Judin at the Leningrad Conservatory. She graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in composition in Vissarion Shebalin's class in 1938. She finished her advanced studies there in 1945.

Works
"Aastaajad (Seasons)", song cycle to poems by Sergei Jessenin (1936)
String Quartet No. 1 (1937)
Symphonietta (1938)
String Quartet No. 2 (1939)
Four Russian Folk Songs for symphony orchestra (1940)
Three dances for piano (1940)
Three Turkmenistani dances for piano (1940)
Ballade-sonata for violin and piano (1941)
"Eestimaa (Estonia)", symphonic poem (1945)
Seven romances to the words of Mihhail Lermontov for voice and piano (1945)
String Quartet No. 3 "Mälestusi Turkmeeniast (Memoirs of Turkmenistan)" (1945)
Suite for two pianos (1947)
"Eesti süit (Estonian Suite)" for symphony orchestra (1948)
"Au Nõukogude Eestile (Ode to Soviet Estonia)", symphonic overture (1950)
"Kevadprelüüdid (Spring Preludes)" for piano (1950)
Piano Concerto in G major, op.18 (1952)
"Tiina", ballet (1955)
"Põhjamaa unenägu (Northern Dream)", ballet for children (1960)
"Muusikaline hetk (Musical Moment)" for symphony orchestra (1961)
Lyrical concertino for violin and symphony orchestra (1966)
"Romeo, Julia ja pimedus (Romeo, Julia and Darkness)", ballet (1970)
"Maihommik (A Morning in May)", short opera. (1972)
Libretto by Lydia Auster after L. Ashkenazy' short story "A Blue Sparkle".
"Melodia" for string orchestra (1973)
"Rahuhommik (The Morning of Peace)", cantata for mixed choir, soloists and symphony orchestra (1975)
Eight Moods for piano (1979)
Four pieces for wind quintet (1983)
"Igavene tuli (Everlasting Fire)", cantata for soloists, mixed choir and symphony orchestra (1984)
"Bambi (Bambie)", ballet for children. Libretto by Epp Koger and Ülo Vilimaa after F. Salten's "Forest Fairytale" (1986)
Piano Concerto for the Young with chamber orchestra (1988)
Sonata for clarinet and piano (1988)

[fhimpsl]

Dear Alfor,

Thank you so much for once again enriching all of our pianistic libraries with these incredibly rare chronological Alexandrov volumes! I agree too that his early work is so beautifully and richly textured, in the finest Russian Romantic tradition, but his gift for melody seemed to always prevail over his long composing career. My first exposure to the music of Alexandrov was through your posting a wonderful vinyl LP recording of his Sonata No. 14, written if I remember correctly when the man was very advanced in years. The writing is thinly textured compared to the earlier works, but the melodic flow is overwhelmingly beautiful and to my ears very reminiscent of Medtner, whose music I dearly love.

Also on the Op. 31 Three Etudes the scores must exist (although obviously rare even in Russia!) because a 2002 Hyperion release of Alexandrov's piano works by Hamish Milne featured all three Etudes. So there is always more for us to collect, and always more postings to look forward to!!

With great thanks & best wishes,

Frank Himpsl

[Caprotti]

Frank ... you know ...

AutorIn Aleksandrov, Anatolij N.
Titel Op. 31. Trois Etudes pour piano. - Moskau: Musiksektion d. Staatsverlages, Wien, Leipzig: Universal Edition 1927. (M.7558-7560 G.) 14 S.
Verknüpfung Zettel
1.Signatur MS92028-2°. Mus

[alfor]

Frank ... you know ...

AutorIn Aleksandrov, Anatolij N.
Titel Op. 31. Trois Etudes pour piano. - Moskau: Musiksektion d. Staatsverlages, Wien, Leipzig: Universal Edition 1927. (M.7558-7560 G.) 14 S.
Verknüpfung Zettel
1.Signatur MS92028-2°. Mus

...which library???

[mballan]

Dear Alfor,

Thank you so much for once again enriching all of our pianistic libraries with these incredibly rare chronological Alexandrov volumes! I agree too that his early work is so beautifully and richly textured, in the finest Russian Romantic tradition, but his gift for melody seemed to always prevail over his long composing career. My first exposure to the music of Alexandrov was through your posting a wonderful vinyl LP recording of his Sonata No. 14, written if I remember correctly when the man was very advanced in years. The writing is thinly textured compared to the earlier works, but the melodic flow is overwhelmingly beautiful and to my ears very reminiscent of Medtner, whose music I dearly love.

Also on the Op. 31 Three Etudes the scores must exist (although obviously rare even in Russia!) because a 2002 Hyperion release of Alexandrov's piano works by Hamish Milne featured all three Etudes. So there is always more for us to collect, and always more postings to look forward to!!

With great thanks & best wishes,

Frank Himpsl

Frank / Alfor and all

I have quite alot of Alexandrov and will see about setting up something in the archive pulling toegther everything posted on PP here plus what I have in my collection but have yet to scan. Alas I only have No. 2 of the Op 31 etudes......but, as with all of Alexandrov's music, I suspect I can in time likley obtain the remaining scores to fill any gaps.

Malcolm

[Caprotti]

VIENNA NB !

[alfor]

Feeding the beast:

Anatoly N. ALEXANDROV
Piano works Vol. II

Alexandrov Piano works vol.IIA.pdf

Alexandrov Piano works vol.IIB.pdf