Pianophilia

Just as an example for the style of this composer:
Boris I. TISHCHENKO
Sonata No. 2 (soviet original first edition)
somewhat tame post-Shostakovich style Ivan KOVAC
TOCCATA quasi Sonata audio:
Janis Medins
Dainas 13-18

Janis LICITIS
Tris miniaturas op. 16 Soviet anthology of french composers:
Milhaud, Poulenc, Auric, Jolivet, Francaix audio:
Janis MEDINS:
Dainas 19-24

Pieces of soviet composers vol. 3:
Belyalov (Toccata), Davydov, Milman, Silvansky, Ostrovskaya, Mirzoev Pero GOTAVAC
jeunes et joyeux finally:
Janis Medins:
Dainas 19-24

Aleksi D. MACHAVARIANI
Selected piano works Life
The Georgian composer and conductor Aleksi Machavariani was born in Gori. He graduated from the Tbilisi Conservatory in 1936 and remained there for a postgraduate study. Later he joined the faculty, becoming a professor in 1963. He began his artistic career in 1935.
Machavariani produced a number of critically acclaimed plays and ballets, including the ballet “Othello” (1957), the operas “Mat i Sin” (1945), “Den moei Rodini” (1954), the symphony “Piat monologov” (1971; it earned the Shota Rustaveli Prize). He also wrote the music to many theatrical productions, including “Baratashvili” and “Legenda o liubvi”.
He was the artistic director of the Georgian State Symphony Orchestra from 1956 till 1958 and directed the Composers’ Union of Georgia from 1962 till 1968.
* 5 symphonies
* Concerts for piano and violin
* Operas: Mother and Daughter; Hamlet
* Musical show: Funny Comedy,
* Ballets: Othello; The Knight in a Tiger’s Skin (after Shota Rustaveli’s poem)
* Four string quartets
* Two sonatas for piano
* Sonata for violin
* Pieces for different instruments
* Choir works


audio:
ARRAU Chopin Ballade A flat major (original shellac)

Once again Slovak composers:
CIKKER, SUCHON, MARTINU (translation of the titles much appreciated) Example for the style of this composer:
Eino TAMBERG
Children's album (original soviet first edition)
http://www.emic.ee/helilooja/einotamberg?lang=eng audio:
Arthur de GREEF plays Chopin

György GESZLER
2 Preludes & fugues Concert pieces of soviet composers vol. 3:
Kortes, ---, Lyubivets (?), Olakh
Alfor - details on Concert Piece Vol 3: Kortes - Contrasts, Suite in Four Moods: Galakhov - Three Fleeting Thoughts; Lyubivets - Fugue: Shut' - Op 12 Silhouettes, 11 Miniatures: Olakh - Prelude & Double Fugue. Thank you for these...some are new to me. Malcolm

audio:
Monique Haas
Bartok Sonatina (from shellac)

Concert pieces of soviet composers vol. 4
Arapov, Aslamazov, Belov, Dorokhin (?), Kruglikov (?), Nagovitsin, Simakin, Slonimsky, Falik audio:
Stafan Askenase Chopin

Tigran MANSURYAN
3 pieces (this score is a piece of art in itself!!) Genrikh (Heinrich) BRUK
12 pieces on poems by Rodar audio:
Kentner plays Lizst

Kasachian composers:
Mendygaliyev, Bayakhulov, Zhubanov, Brusilovsky, Zhubanova, Rakhmadiev Kamillo HORN
Sonata op. 15
http://www.mediafire.com/?0xzqmcyttkd

audio:
Eileen Joyce plays Brahms

What a shame! All the time I was playing on a "glasovir" and did not realize it!

Dora PEJACEVIC
Sonata za glasovir u as-duru op. 57 audio: Monique Haas
Debussy Toccata