Pianophilia

Otar V. TAKTAKISHVILI
Piano concerto No. 2 (2 piano reduction) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbxHfPWw ... re=related

audio:
Howard Ferguson
Piano sonata

Lubor BARTA
SonataI previously posted his 2nd sonata (http://www.mediafire.com/alfor)

alternative scan (600dpi!):
Georg SZELL
Drei kleine Klavierstücke op. 6 MEDINS & Dainas info audio: Harriet Cohen plays Bach

Jan Zdenek BARTOS
II. Sonata (Giocosa) op. 82 Now more than 700 scores at: http://www.mediafire.com/alfor (Swiss composer Willy Burkhard composed some interesting Preludes & Fugues)

audio:
Harriet Cohen plays Bach

Alemdar S. KARAMANOV
15 Concert Fugues

Alemdar Sabitovich Karamanov, son of a Russian mother and Turkish father, was born in Simferopol, inland Crimea, on 10 September 1934. Surviving the German occupation from July 1942 to May 1944, he went to the Moscow Conservatory in 1953. Here, among contemporaries including Shchedrin, Denisov, Volkonsky, Gubaidulina and Schnittke, he worked with Bogatiryov (1953-58), completing his studies under Kabalevsky and Khrennikov, head of the Composers’ Union. Vladimir Natanson, a disciple of Feinberg, was his piano teacher, Spurning party benefits and the Red Square Establishment, he returned home to Simferopol in the mid-1960s, a gaunt, reclusive figure, urban by night, rural by day, resigned to a struggle for existence, food-parcels, and gifts from well-wishers.

Much of Karamanov’s music, including the first ten symphonies, dates from his apprenticeship in Khruschev’s Moscow, when his reputation was as a "complicated" pantonal modernist, "with a very sharp ear" and a "bright" intellect. Negative circumstances allied to a pathological reluctance to "write anything down" explain in part why virtually nothing has appeared since the mid-1980s, barring revisions, a couple of film-scores, and the Crimean National Anthem of February 1992. Long forced to imagine his ideas solely in the concert rooms of his mind, Karamanov’s recent claim to be only now conceiving some of his greatest work suggests, however, no lessening of the creative urge. Twenty-four symphonies (1954-83), three ballets (1961-85), seven concertos (piano, violin, trumpet, 1958-68), three string quarters (1953-62), four piano sonatas (1954-61), sundry piano cycles (including nineteen Concert Fugues, 1964), choral settings (1954-74) and songs (to Russian, African and Latin texts, 1963-74) make up the list of his works.

(Information copied and pasted from Naxos dot com.)

Dear timtim,
thank you for the infos!

Janez MATICIC
12 Etud (Excellent virtuoso etudes!) audio:
more Bach by Harriet Cohen

alfor wrote:

isokani wrote:Dear Alfor
Thanks very much for the Karamanov. A very interesting addition to the other Russian polyphonic cycles for piano that we know. I believe Karamanov wrote a lot of symphonies, but I have never heard them.

Dear isokani,

you are welcome! According to Malcolm's list, this was first issued as "5 Preludes and 18 fugues".

P.S. wonder, if you might know Bax' "5 pieces sur le nom de Gabriel Faure"
P.P.S. looked again through Emil Bohnke's Sonata op. 10: it is in parts very "Baxian"! I will post a 600dpi scan (a decent scan was posted at the old forum). Quite isokanian piece imho.

Since that verison of my "book" I've discovered that the 5 preludes [1953] and 19 fugues [1963] are actually two separate works [and will be shown as such in the next version]. What puzzles me is that 19 fugures were composed but it appears only 15 were ever published by Soviet Kompozitor in 1984.

Hope to have updated version of my book shortly...just adding in another 200 odd biographies !

Malcolm

Dear Malcolm,

I am looking forward to a new edition of your "book"!! I know, this would be quite a bit of work, but I would prefer to have the full first names.

best regards

alfor

Dimitar NENOV
Selected piano worksTheme & Variations (more recent edition) finally some more Bach by Harriet Cohen

Lubomir PIPKOV
Suite Bulgare Germaine TAILLEFERRE
Partita audio:
Billy plays Mayerl

G. TSENDORZH
2 pieces op. 2 (6) alternative scan:
Jan Levoslav BELLA
Sonata B-Mol audio:
Akshin Ali-Zade (Alizade)
Chhamber Symphony