Pianophilia

fleubis wrote:Nice little collection, caostotale. Very conservative in style and clearly for the young. Seems rather odd to have that 4 hand pieces stuck in the middle. Nice find, and thanks for posting.

Yeah, this is definitely a curiosity. Abkhazia had around half-a-million people living in it when this was published, which is double it's current population (i.e. war with Georgia caused half of them to flee). The music's conservatism seems to match that of other volumes of this sort, especially those that represent other nationalities that were on the peripheries of Russia and, as such, did not see national conservatories opening until the twentieth-century (e.g. see also, the 'Children's Pieces by Buryat Composers', 'Pieces by Bashkir Composers', 'Pieces by Uralic Composers', etc... volumes. There's also a 'Children's Pieces by Yakut Composers' volume that I haven't yet accessed). With a number of these books, I've found myself most interested in simply learning about composers I've not heard of.

Many thanks caostotale.....any interesting album for a group of composers I knew little about. Thank you also for the updated Dmitryev album as well.........much appreciated.

Malcolm

Pieces from "Seven Beauties" ballet, libretto based on the poem by Nizami, music by Kara Karaev (Qara Qarajev), Baku, Azerbaijan (USSR), 1952
Publish by Moscow "Soviet Composer" edition, 1972
Transcribed for piano by V. Leechkis
See the files in the messages below

Excellent, many thanks Crow for these pieces.......very fond of Karayev, there is some gorgeous music in his Seven Beauties ballet.

Malcolm

I'm sorry, the files in my previous post were of poor quality and not complete. Here I did completely that part of the ballet, where the dances of the beauties - Seven portraits (picture six):
So, the second attempt in good quality with title:
Girls dances from Seven Beauties ballet by Kara Karayev (Baku, Azerbaijan (USSR), 1952)
transcribed by V. Leyechkis
Moscow, "Soviet Composer", 1972
Picture six: Seven portraits
Introduction
a) Indian Beauty
b) Byzantine beauty
v) Khorezm (Uzbek) beauty
g) Slavic (Russian) beauty
d) Maghreb (Arab) beauty
e) Chinese Beauty
zh) Iranian (Persian) Beauty - "The Best Beauty of Beauties"

The famous adagio is like an unofficial anthem of Azerbaijan. In Soviet times this music was the musical symbol of the broadcasts of the Baku Television

Crow wrote:The famous adagio is like an unofficial anthem of Azerbaijan. In Soviet times this music was the musical symbol of the broadcasts of the Baku Television

Kara-Karayev_Adagio_from_Seven-Beauties.pdf

Crow

Many thanks for the cleaner version of the Seven Beauties dances and Adagio.......nice to have the front page, as did not realise Leyetchkiss had arranged these pieces, so a new transcription as well. Very much appreciated.

Malcolm

Several selected pieces from the Seven beauties ballet

Anyone with a copy of the Eskiz by Karayev? Thanks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SosFBJYKVps

Jim Faston wrote:Anyone with a copy of the Eskiz by Karayev?

Indeed beautiful.
Not my scan.
Greetings,
kroket