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Dear Alfor,

A trio of pianistic gems you've posted for us today!! The Pierre-Maillard Fantasie (Tarantelle) is truly an exciting, showpiece number.... (und velleicht ein bischen verruckt..(?)...aber es macht gut, sehr gut. Klasse! ;) ) In contrast the Daniel-Lesur Ballade overcomes a brooding melancholy to blossom into extreme beauty. What a find you have in this one. And late...1950!!

Your postings are the highpoint of my day...but you know that already. :D I know we Pianophilians all treasure your postings, opinions being vocalized or not. The pianistic art which you are archiving is both legacy and testament to your keen eye and exquisite musical taste.

As Always,

Frank (a.k.a. Dr. H. :mrgreen: )
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Ah, Alfor! I, too, love the Daniel-Lesur--it seems to have real depth, his thematic material is widely spaced out over the keyboard and provides interesting voicing challenges. The Maillard piece is a brilliant, but musically music simpler piece that when played at tempo really shines.

I think the Boghen Preludio-Chorale would make good concert material, but think the Chorale theme is somewhat weak--IMHO.
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ALFOR !
There is a missing page on the Lithuanian Composers file ! (Ciurlionis, Dvarionas, Juzeliunas, Paketuras, Shuraitis, Kairyukshits, Pachyunas, Vainiunas, Brazinskas, Laurusas, Gorbulskis, Povilaitis)

I was on the Vainiunas piece and suddenly noticed a missing page. page 62 and then suddenly page 64. I need page 63 please !

Tony
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Thank you very much to all "supporters" of my thread, especially fleubis, Frank, Ferruccio and Dani!

Finally a new soviet composer:
Ėta (Ėdzi) Mayseyewna TYRMAND***
Suite (Esquisse, Scherzo, Aria, Burlesca)
Excellent (french influence!)...and new to Malcolm :D :D :D
Tyrmand Suita cover.pdf
Tyrmand Suita.pdf

Posted as an example of the piano style of this Polish/French composer:
Alexandre TANSMAN
Recueil de Mazurkas (vol. 1 out of 4 vols.)
while many of his works are too "patternal" IMHO, these Mazurkas are excellent
and may duly be considered his best piano work!
Tansman Mazurkas vol.1.pdf
P.S. will provide the missing Vainiunas page.

***Tyrmand, Ėta (Ėdzi) Mayseyewna

(b Warsaw, 23 Feb 1917). Belarusian composer. She completed her studies at the teaching and choral faculty of the Warsaw Higher School (1938) where she also studied the piano. After the occupation of Warsaw in 1939 she fled to Minsk and entered the conservatory there. During the war years she worked as an accompanist for the Kyrgyz Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Frunze, and later graduated from the National Conservatory, Minsk, in the piano class of G.I. Shershevsky (1949) and the composition class of A.V. Bahatïrow (1952). In 1949 she began teaching the piano and ran a class for accompanists at the Belarusian State Academy of Music. Her music is emotionally vivid, dynamic and virtuoso in style. Such works as the piano concertos, sonatas, suites and toccatas are characterized by decorativeness and textural detail, as well as an improvisatory manner and free form. The use of chromatic tonality, a reliance on the Belarusian song style and a tendency towards ornamentation inspired by the sounds of the natural world all give distinctiveness, harmonic freshness and a concertante brilliance to her works for violin and piano and for cimbalom and piano (in which she comes close to the traditions of Bartók and Szymanowski). Her vocal works are vividly expressive and national in character. The lively speech-like intonation and the picturesque cast of her instrumental pieces and songs about children (to poems by V. Shumilin and Vladimir Levin) are ingenious.
WORKS
vocal

Choral orch: Partiya vedyot k kommunizmu [The Party Leads to Communism] (trad.), 1951; Ya Lenyna pyayu (cant., A. Aleksandrovich), 1969Chorus: Suite (Ye. Ognetsvet), children's choir, 1956; choruses (M. Bogdanovich, A. Deruzhinsky, Ya. Kolas, E. Meželaitis, M. Tank, P. Trus)Songs (1v, pf): 3 balladï [3 Ballads] (B. Dadié), 1963; Zemnoye prityazheniye [Terrestrial Attraction] (Tank), song cycle, 1966; song cycle (F. García Lorca) 1975; Detskiy tsikl [A Cycle for Children] (V. Shumilin), 1977; Mister Kvakli i dr. [Mr Quickly and Others] (V. Levin), song cycle, 1980

Arrs. of Belarusian and Polish folksongs for 1v, pf for chorus
instrumental

Orch: Pf Conc., 1952; Pol'skiye napevï [Polish Tunes], fantasy, orch of Belarusian folk insts, 1952; Pf Conc. no.2, 1956Chbr and solo inst: Scherzo, vn, pf, 1949; Sonata, vn, pf, 1950; Improvizatsiya i tanets [Improvisation and Dance], vn, pf, 1957; Sonata, va, pf, 1967, rev. for vn, pf; Ėstradnaya p'yesa [Variety Stage Piece], tpt, pf, 1961; Scherzo, cimb, pf, 1969; Kontsertnïy val's [Concert Waltz], cimb, pf, 1970; 2 p'yesa [2 Pieces], cimb, pf, 1974; Poėma, vn, pf, 1982; Tema s variatsiyami [Theme and Variations], trbn, pf, 1988; Ballada-fantaziya, vc, pf, 1989Pf: 5 Preludes, 1948; Variations, 1950; Variations (on a Belarusian folk theme), 1951; Stsenki iz detskoy zhizni [Scenes from the Lives of Children], suite, 1953; Sonatina, 1954; Pionyorskaya syuita [Pioneer Suite], 1962; Toccata, 1962; Suite [no.2], 1963; Ėtyudï-kartinki (Etudes-tableaux), 2 bks, 1971–2; Chetïre nastroyeniya [Four Moods], suite, 1973; Suite [no.4], 1975
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alfor wrote:Thank you very much to all "supporters" of my thread, especially fleubis, Frank, Ferruccio and Dani!


P.S. will provide the missing Vainiunas page.
Thanks alfor ! I almost had a stroke.
And thanks for the Tyrmand !

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alfor wrote:Thank you very much to all "supporters" of my thread, especially fleubis, Frank, Ferruccio and Dani!

Finally a new soviet composer:
Ėta (Ėdzi) Mayseyewna TYRMAND***
Suite (Esquisse, Scherzo, Aria, Burlesca)
Excellent (french influence!)...and new to Malcolm :D :D :D
Tyrmand Suita cover.pdf
Tyrmand Suita.pdf

Posted as an example of the piano style of this Polish/French composer:
Alexandre TANSMAN
Recueil de Mazurkas (vol. 1)
while many of his works are too "patternal" IMHO, these Mazurkas are excellent
and may duly be considered his best piano work!
Tansman Mazurkas vol.1.pdf
P.S. will provide the missing Vainiunas page.

***Tyrmand, Ėta (Ėdzi) Mayseyewna

(b Warsaw, 23 Feb 1917). Belarusian composer. She completed her studies at the teaching and choral faculty of the Warsaw Higher School (1938) where she also studied the piano. After the occupation of Warsaw in 1939 she fled to Minsk and entered the conservatory there. During the war years she worked as an accompanist for the Kyrgyz Theatre of Opera and Ballet in Frunze, and later graduated from the National Conservatory, Minsk, in the piano class of G.I. Shershevsky (1949) and the composition class of A.V. Bahatïrow (1952). In 1949 she began teaching the piano and ran a class for accompanists at the Belarusian State Academy of Music. Her music is emotionally vivid, dynamic and virtuoso in style. Such works as the piano concertos, sonatas, suites and toccatas are characterized by decorativeness and textural detail, as well as an improvisatory manner and free form. The use of chromatic tonality, a reliance on the Belarusian song style and a tendency towards ornamentation inspired by the sounds of the natural world all give distinctiveness, harmonic freshness and a concertante brilliance to her works for violin and piano and for cimbalom and piano (in which she comes close to the traditions of Bartók and Szymanowski). Her vocal works are vividly expressive and national in character. The lively speech-like intonation and the picturesque cast of her instrumental pieces and songs about children (to poems by V. Shumilin and Vladimir Levin) are ingenious.
WORKS
vocal

Choral orch: Partiya vedyot k kommunizmu [The Party Leads to Communism] (trad.), 1951; Ya Lenyna pyayu (cant., A. Aleksandrovich), 1969Chorus: Suite (Ye. Ognetsvet), children's choir, 1956; choruses (M. Bogdanovich, A. Deruzhinsky, Ya. Kolas, E. Meželaitis, M. Tank, P. Trus)Songs (1v, pf): 3 balladï [3 Ballads] (B. Dadié), 1963; Zemnoye prityazheniye [Terrestrial Attraction] (Tank), song cycle, 1966; song cycle (F. García Lorca) 1975; Detskiy tsikl [A Cycle for Children] (V. Shumilin), 1977; Mister Kvakli i dr. [Mr Quickly and Others] (V. Levin), song cycle, 1980

Arrs. of Belarusian and Polish folksongs for 1v, pf for chorus
instrumental

Orch: Pf Conc., 1952; Pol'skiye napevï [Polish Tunes], fantasy, orch of Belarusian folk insts, 1952; Pf Conc. no.2, 1956Chbr and solo inst: Scherzo, vn, pf, 1949; Sonata, vn, pf, 1950; Improvizatsiya i tanets [Improvisation and Dance], vn, pf, 1957; Sonata, va, pf, 1967, rev. for vn, pf; Ėstradnaya p'yesa [Variety Stage Piece], tpt, pf, 1961; Scherzo, cimb, pf, 1969; Kontsertnïy val's [Concert Waltz], cimb, pf, 1970; 2 p'yesa [2 Pieces], cimb, pf, 1974; Poėma, vn, pf, 1982; Tema s variatsiyami [Theme and Variations], trbn, pf, 1988; Ballada-fantaziya, vc, pf, 1989Pf: 5 Preludes, 1948; Variations, 1950; Variations (on a Belarusian folk theme), 1951; Stsenki iz detskoy zhizni [Scenes from the Lives of Children], suite, 1953; Sonatina, 1954; Pionyorskaya syuita [Pioneer Suite], 1962; Toccata, 1962; Suite [no.2], 1963; Ėtyudï-kartinki (Etudes-tableaux), 2 bks, 1971–2; Chetïre nastroyeniya [Four Moods], suite, 1973; Suite [no.4], 1975


Thank you for all the information, Alfor... Must say I rally enjoy more Tansman, but all the new composer are always welcome. The fact I've always wondered about, is how much piano music has ever been written..the new pieces seem endless, and I am overwhelmed by the huge capacity of Alfor sources, and having in mind, most of the pieces are collected in Germany ( I guess ), I have to imagine what is floating around on the rest of the world...
Are we ever gonna come to a point where there's no more music to post here in this thread? ( I hope not!!! :) )
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Hi Alfred

Thank you for the Tyrmand......I was aware of her as a composer but only had two piano works listed in my "book" so the information [and of course the suite] are very much welcomed.

Thank you also for the Tansman...another much underrated composer and I would equally support your recommendation of the mazurkas. Excellent posting as always :D

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corrected file:
Lithuanian composers.pdf
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alfor wrote:corrected file:
Lithuanian composers.pdf
Thank you alfor ! I love you man !

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alfor wrote:corrected file:
Lithuanian composers.pdf
I've just been asked for a translation of the Lithuanian album kindly posted by Alfor [AMENDED]:

1. Ciurlionas – Fugue in C minor
2. Ciurlionas – Fugue in Eb major
3. Dvarionas – Sonatina
4. Yuzelunas – Theme & Variations
5. Paketuras – Prelude & Fugue
6. Zhigaitis – Sonatina
7. Kairyukshtis - Sonatina
8. Račtunas – Ballade
9. Vainiunas – Dawn Arises
10. Bražinskas – Piece
11. Paurishas – Humoresque
12. Gorbulskis – Scherzo
13. Povilaitas - Fairytale

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