Scriabin's ten complete piano sonatas offer a fascinating insight into the Russian composer's stylistic development. While his first works still fully reflect the late-romantic tradition, the late works keep bursting the bounds of tonality. The boldly outlined, two-movement Fourth Sonata marks a turning point, for it evokes the world of the 'Poème de l'extase? with its mystical atmosphere hovering…

Par RIMSKI-KORSAKOV NICOLAI. Langue: Russian, Format: New Edition portrait/ Répertoire / Chant et Piano

Par LEGG PAT. This is a collection of dances arranged for string ensemble. The pieces explore various dance styles from around the world, and include a Russian dance and a German dance. The pieces are fun to play and are in flexible arrangements so that young players at all levels can be involved./ Répertoire / Set de Cordes

Par PROKOFIEV SERGEI. The Russian ballet director Sergei Diaghilev commissioned many composers to write music for the theatre. This was what caused Serge Prokofiev to compose the four part Scytische Suite (also known as Ala and Lolli) in 1916, from which The Enemy God and the Dance of the Spirits can be heard on this CD. This suite is one of Prokofiev's first works, and received negative criticism…

Partitions pour instruments graves Chansons: Just For The Love, Oleo, We Six, Alabama, Central Park West, India, Spiral, So What, Lush Life, Lazy Bird, Giant Steps, By The Numbers, Body And Soul, All Blues, Locomotion, In A Sentimental Mood, Some Other Blues, Lazy Bird, Goldsboro Express, Russian Lullaby, 26-2, Cousin Mary et plus 50 morceaux par John Coltraine arrangés pour instruments graves Niv…

Full scores of Op. 20, Nos. 1-6, and Op. 33 (the Russian quartets), Nos. 1-6, in the reliable Eulenburg edition. 12 masterful quartets by the composer who helped define the form include such favorites as the Joke and the Bird from Op. 33.

Par RIMSKI-KORSAKOV NICOLAI. Langue: Russian, French,/ Répertoire / Basse et Piano

2 Pièces. Par GLIERE REINHOLD. Prélude and Scherzo for Double Bass and Piano by the Russian composer Reinhold M. Glière, whose musical style represents a link between Late Romanticism (Tchaikovsky) and Modernism (Prokofiev). / Niveau : Intermédiaire / Répertoire / Contrebasse et Piano

Three Russian Dances. Par VAN DER ROOST JAN. Cette suite colorée et variée contient des cheminements surprenants dans un paysage sonore caractéristique de l’âme musicale russe. L’introduction est suivie d’une danse rapide qui s’apparente au Trepak ; les thèmes sont accrocheurs. Le second mouvement, Garovot, est lent dans l’ensemble et quelque peu mélancolique. Pourtant, la passion renaît dans un p…

Par TCHAIKOVSKI PIOTR ILITCH. June from The Seasons includes the printed score, a written masterclass from international concert pianist Daniel Grimwood, in which he describes how to approach the barcarolle style of this Romantic Russian piano music, a biography of the composer and a short history of the music ? all illustrated in full colour. more than the score? is a series of classic piano musi…

Par STRAVINSKY IGOR. Four Russian Peasant Songs/ Répertoire / Choeur de Femmes (SSAA) ou Choeur d'Hommes (TTBB)

Par KAPUSTIN NIKOLAI. Nikolai Kapustin’s Allegro is a thrilling single-movement work for piano trio, bursting with energy and replete with additive rhythms and characteristic jazz-inspired dissonances. It would make a great encore to any accomplished trio’s recital programme and joins a growing series of this Russian composer-pianist’s works newly published in the Edition Schott series./ Répertoir…

für Violoncello und Orchester. Par SCHNITTKE ALFRED. Schnittke’s first cello concerto was written during a near fatal time in his life, after having suffered a severe stroke in 1985, during which his heart stopped three times. Upon recovery he completed the concerto, the music becoming more dissonant and discordant, with the melodies more contorted. The first cello concerto was a monumental endeav…

Arranged From Three Easy Pieces By Jackendoff.. Par STRAVINSKY. March, Waltz, And Polka were first composed in 1915 as a collection of three Piano duets, Three Easy Pieces, by the Russian composer Igor Stravinsky. They were written for the composer to playwith his children as they were learning the Piano, so had a considerably easier second part. They have been arranged for Clarinet and Piano by t…

Par RIMSKI-KORSAKOV NIKOLAI. This short symphonic work was composed in 1905, during the first Russian Revolution. Rimsky-Korsakov takes his theme from a revolutionary worker’s song. / Niveau : 5 / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie