Vocal Music from Russia & the Soviet Union
Posted: Fri Aug 23, 2013 4:40 pm
Seeing as this volume covers composers from at least three other threads, I decided to start a new thread, one to which I hope to link several more volumes over time. I hope this is not in bad form, but I don't think Armenian composers belong in a 'Russian song' thread or vice-versa in a Caucasus thread.
Here's one of a large number of voice/piano volumes that was published during the Soviet era. Like many other 'Sovetskikh Kompositor' issues, this book covers a pretty vast geographical scope, including composers from Tajikistan (I had always assumed Balasanyan was simply an Armenian composer) and Armenia, and setting words from authors of Turkmenistan, ancient Japan, Spain, Kalmykia (a nation that lies north of Dagestan; the Kalmyks are the western-most group that adheres to Tibetan Buddhism), and the not-often-heard-from Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria (the Balkars are a Turkic group). All in all, a deeply interesting volume.
Romances and Songs by Soviet Composers, for voice and piano (1978)
Eduard Aslanovich ABRAMIAN (ABRAMYAN) (Armenia) - Yearning (words by O. Tumanyan)
Sergei Artemyevich BALASANYAN (BALASANYANTS) (Tajikistan) - Guzel Weaves a Carpet (words by Turkmen writer Chary Kurbanklychev) (bio at http://translate.googleusercontent.com/ ... jq0D30-NcA )
Vladimir Mikhailovich BRUMBERG - Romances (5) on words by [the Balkar poet] Kaisyn Kuliyev; 1. 'I drank the water, flowing between the rocks...', 2. Dance (excerpt from a poem), 3. 'As you look between the leaves of an alder tree...', 4. 'You shake your sad, forgotten nest', 5. 'Only the dead do not know worries...' (composer's bio at http://translate.googleusercontent.com/ ... vWsoBXR2OA , poet's bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... bih%3D1020 )
Mikhail Oskarovich GRACHEV (Kalmykia) - A Garland of Melodies, Fantasy on the Kalmyk Folk Songs 'Khalga', 'Muktin', 'Stele', 'Song-Dance', 'Two Hearts', and 'Delyash' (bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... 6bih%3D989 )
Nikolai Petrovich GUBARKOV - Blue Eyes (words by A. Koltsov) (bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... bih%3D1020 )
Nikolai Petrovich GUBARKOV - 'Where are you, days of Mont, days of spring?' (words by A. Koltsov)
Mark Anatolyevich MINKOV - 'Leave me to cry in this field', from the cycle 'The Weeping Guitar' (words by F. Garcia-Lorca, poem entitled 'Ay!') (bio at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Minkov )
Mark Anatolyevich MINKOV - Dance and Death, from the cycle 'The Weeping Guitar' (words by F. Garcia-Lorca, compiled by Minkov from two poems)
Mark Anatolyevich MINKOV - Landscape, from the cycle 'The Weeping Guitar' (words by F. Garcia-Lorca)
Tatiana Georgyevna SMIRNOVA - This Dream-World (words by Tsurayuki), from the cycle of songs on words by Japanese poets (bio at http://home.wanadoo.nl/ovar/smirnova.htm )
Tatiana Georgyevna SMIRNOVA - Love (words by Tomonori), from the cycle of songs on words by Japanese poets
Tatiana Georgyevna SMIRNOVA - Parting (words by unknown author), from the cycle of songs on words by Japanese poets
Vladimir Sergeyevich IVANNIKOV - Romances (4), on words by Ilya Ehrenburg (1945); 1. Statue of Aphrodite, 2. The Day Will Come, 3. 'Where the peaceful dolphins played...', 4. 'For what did he die?' (bio at http://translate.googleusercontent.com/ ... JeuYz4zWZg , author's bio at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Ehrenburg )
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Here's one of a large number of voice/piano volumes that was published during the Soviet era. Like many other 'Sovetskikh Kompositor' issues, this book covers a pretty vast geographical scope, including composers from Tajikistan (I had always assumed Balasanyan was simply an Armenian composer) and Armenia, and setting words from authors of Turkmenistan, ancient Japan, Spain, Kalmykia (a nation that lies north of Dagestan; the Kalmyks are the western-most group that adheres to Tibetan Buddhism), and the not-often-heard-from Caucasus region of Kabardino-Balkaria (the Balkars are a Turkic group). All in all, a deeply interesting volume.
Romances and Songs by Soviet Composers, for voice and piano (1978)
Eduard Aslanovich ABRAMIAN (ABRAMYAN) (Armenia) - Yearning (words by O. Tumanyan)
Sergei Artemyevich BALASANYAN (BALASANYANTS) (Tajikistan) - Guzel Weaves a Carpet (words by Turkmen writer Chary Kurbanklychev) (bio at http://translate.googleusercontent.com/ ... jq0D30-NcA )
Vladimir Mikhailovich BRUMBERG - Romances (5) on words by [the Balkar poet] Kaisyn Kuliyev; 1. 'I drank the water, flowing between the rocks...', 2. Dance (excerpt from a poem), 3. 'As you look between the leaves of an alder tree...', 4. 'You shake your sad, forgotten nest', 5. 'Only the dead do not know worries...' (composer's bio at http://translate.googleusercontent.com/ ... vWsoBXR2OA , poet's bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... bih%3D1020 )
Mikhail Oskarovich GRACHEV (Kalmykia) - A Garland of Melodies, Fantasy on the Kalmyk Folk Songs 'Khalga', 'Muktin', 'Stele', 'Song-Dance', 'Two Hearts', and 'Delyash' (bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... 6bih%3D989 )
Nikolai Petrovich GUBARKOV - Blue Eyes (words by A. Koltsov) (bio at http://translate.google.com/translate?h ... bih%3D1020 )
Nikolai Petrovich GUBARKOV - 'Where are you, days of Mont, days of spring?' (words by A. Koltsov)
Mark Anatolyevich MINKOV - 'Leave me to cry in this field', from the cycle 'The Weeping Guitar' (words by F. Garcia-Lorca, poem entitled 'Ay!') (bio at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Minkov )
Mark Anatolyevich MINKOV - Dance and Death, from the cycle 'The Weeping Guitar' (words by F. Garcia-Lorca, compiled by Minkov from two poems)
Mark Anatolyevich MINKOV - Landscape, from the cycle 'The Weeping Guitar' (words by F. Garcia-Lorca)
Tatiana Georgyevna SMIRNOVA - This Dream-World (words by Tsurayuki), from the cycle of songs on words by Japanese poets (bio at http://home.wanadoo.nl/ovar/smirnova.htm )
Tatiana Georgyevna SMIRNOVA - Love (words by Tomonori), from the cycle of songs on words by Japanese poets
Tatiana Georgyevna SMIRNOVA - Parting (words by unknown author), from the cycle of songs on words by Japanese poets
Vladimir Sergeyevich IVANNIKOV - Romances (4), on words by Ilya Ehrenburg (1945); 1. Statue of Aphrodite, 2. The Day Will Come, 3. 'Where the peaceful dolphins played...', 4. 'For what did he die?' (bio at http://translate.googleusercontent.com/ ... JeuYz4zWZg , author's bio at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Ehrenburg )
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