Music of the Caucasus [Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia etc.]

[mballan]

The Laghidze is a true 'tour de force'.

From the Georgian site:

M Merabishvili (1946 - )

Merabishvili M - Four Piano Pieces for Children (1982).pdf

Merabishvili M - Four Small Piano Pieces for Children (1984).pdf

Shalva Taktakishvili (1900-1965)

Taktakishvili S - 'Children's Album' Five Pieces for Piano (1947).pdf

Taktakishvili S - Comic Piece for Piano (1946).pdf

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From the Georgian site:

Sergei Barkhudaryan (1887-1972)

Barkhudaryan S - Two Oriental Dances for Piano (1910-13 publ. 1967).pdf

Nikolai Gudiashvili (1913-1998)

Gudiashvili N - Polyphonic Piano Pieces for Children (1978).pdf

Aleksei Machavariani (1913-1995)

Nine Pieces (~ 1982)
1. Bagpipes (folk tune)
2. Pshavskaya (folk tune)
3. Tale of the Heath
4. The Cheerful Shepherd
5. Mother’s Cradle Song
6. Little Ballade
7. In a Turkish Café
8. The Hunter
9. Vaska’s Cradle Song (folk)

Machavariani A - Nine Pieces for Piano (1982).pdf

Machavariani A - Parisian Sketches for Piano (1979).pdf

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From Georgian site:

Albert Leman (1915-1998)

From his Op 37 Fifty Etudes.

Leman A - Characteristic & Progressive Etudes [based on Op 37 set] (1966).pdf

Shalva Milorava (1925 - ) - if any one can translate the Georgian would be grateful for a translation

Milorava S - Two Pieces for Piano (1992).pdf

[parag]

Thanks as always Malc for these lovely scores...

The Milorava is: Two Pieces.
1. Dream
2. Happiness

Dedicated to Roman Gorelashvili

Edited by A. Shaverzashvili

Published by the Musical Foundation of the Republic of Georgia.

Best,
Parag

[mballan]

Many thanks Parag.

Latest from the Georgian site:

Sulkhan Nasidze (1927-1996)

Nasidze S - Ballade for Piano (1967).pdf

[fleubis]

Greatly enjoyed the Nasidze Ballad, Malcolm. Thanks for posting this!

[mballan]

From the Georgian music site:

Sergei Barkhudaryan (1887-1972)

Barkhudaryan S - Twenty-five Miniatures for Piano [easy to medium difficulty] (1962).pdf

Twenty-five Miniatures for Piano [easy to medium difficulty] (1962)
1. Spring Rain
2. Autumn has come
3. First Snowball
4. Lullaby
5. Partridges Coo
6. From Grandfather’s Tales
7. Traps
8. Zayushkina’s Complaint
9. Variations
10. Labour
11. On a Moonlit Night
12. Nunochki Dance
13. The Boy went up into the Mountains
14. Dance of the Pioneers
15. On the Lawn
16. Song of the Doe
17. My Scarlet Slippers
18. Dance of the Young Girls
19. Charging Pioneers
20. Plowman’s Story
21. About Olden Days
22. Comic
23. The Bear is trying to Dance
24. Nazan Dance
25. Shakhov-Shukhov March

[mballan]

I have now got to the end of the works posted on the Georgian site, and the remaining scores I have I will post over the next few days. But new scores are being up-loaded slowly to the site, so I shall post these as and when I can.

This is a new composer to me: Lev Grigorevich Ninyev (Niniev). Born 1917, Sighnaghi : died ? Georgian composer and teacher.

Studied piano with Virsaladze at the Tbilisi Conservatoire, where he graduated in 1941. Fought in World War II, and then later after the war studied composition again at the Tbilisi Conservatoire under Balanchivadze, graduating in 1948.

From 1948-74 taught at various music schools in Tbilisi, and from 1974 taught at the Republican House of National Creativity, and from 1976 also taught piano at the Paliashvili Music School No. 2.

Niniyev L - Concert Etude No. 2 for Piano (1984).pdf

Niniyev L - Happy Spring Dance for Piano (1966).pdf

Niniyev L - March for Piano (1984).pdf

Niniyev L - Peasant's Dance for Piano (1985).pdf

Niniyev L - Poeme in E minor for Piano (1966).pdf

[mballan]

From Georgian music site: - had to split this album because of its size. These are arrangements by Bagdasaryan as well as dances by other Armenian composers (I've included their names where applicable in the translation of the works index below).

Armenian Dances (1967)
1. Zensky Dance
2. Fairy / Pixie Dance
3. Aleksandryan – Geirani Dance
4. Kochari Dance
5. Aleksandryan – Naz Par Dance
6. Fork-Fork Dance
7. Nunufar Dance
8. Dilican Dance
9. Tarakyama Dance
10. Maralik Dance
11. Shalakho Dance
12. Aleksandryan - Got Stuck ! Dance
13. Zurni Trngi Dance
14. Back & Forth Dance
15. Duz par Dance
16. Aleksandryan - Comic Dance
17. Gyumri Dance (kaloci)
18. ‘The Lark’ Dance
19. Uzundara Dance
20. Nubar-nubar Dance
21. Aleksandryan - Will increase Dance
22. Aleksandryan – Sevani Dance
23. Kochari Dance
24. Veri-veri Dance
25. Aleksandryan - Dance of the Shepherds
26. Time, two, three, four
27. Chukhadzhyan T – Dance from the opera ‘Karine’
28. Tigranyan N - ‘Red Slippers’ Dance
29. Tigranyan N – Dance of the Tightrope Walker
30. Tigranyan N – Shavali
31. Tigranyan N – Yerevan Trngi
32. Findzhan Dance
33. Tigranyan A – Removals Dance from the opera ‘Anush’
34. Spendiarov A – Enzeli
35. Spendiarov A – Dance of the Men from the opera ‘Almast’
36. Ter-Gevondyan – Dance of the Slave Girl
37. Barkhudaryan – Naz par Dance
38. Khachaturyan – Dance of the Cotton Pickers from ‘Gayane’
39. Merangulyan – Anait Dance
40. Bagdasaryan – Dance
41. Kotoyan – Dance of the Fishermen

Bagdasaryan E - Armenian Dances for Piano (1961) - part 1.pdf

Bagdasaryan E - Armenian Dances for Piano (1961) - part 2.pdf

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From Georgian music site:

Viktor Dolidze (1890-1933)

Dolidze V - Potpourri on themes from the opera 'Keto & Kote' for Piano (19~ ).pdf