M.P. Belaieff

This anthology is not in fact a teaching tool, but can be used to complement a piano method. It contains pieces which were especially composed for piano duet, and arrangements of compositions in diffe...

This anthology is the continuation of 'Easy Pieces for 4 Hands' (BEL752-10) and 'Works for Piano for 4 Hands' (752-20), containing more difficult and ambitious compositions from the classical period t...

The 'Chaconne' for bajan with free-bass mode is not as much of a sequence of variations on an ostinato idea as is the classic chaconne. On the contrary, it is the character of the music alone that bea...

'Pastelle' was written by one of Russia's most famous composers. Although one of Gretchaninoff's earliest works, this music already shows the characteristic features of his personal style. The gentle...

Rimsky-Korsakov is mainly known as the composer of numerous Russian operas and brilliant orchestral works. Many people do not know, however, that he wrote interesting and exquisite piano music as well...

This volume continues the 'Belle Epoque Russe' series in which previously hidden 'gems' from Belaieff's archives, music pieces from pre-revolutionary Russia, are made available in their original (alth...

Composed in 2006 for the 15th Oleg Kagan Festival in Wildbad Kreuth, 'Agnus Dei' is one of Mansurjan's meditative works in which he aims at a synthesis of new techniques and old Armenian musical tradi...

Soprano and bass clarinet, closely interwoven with each other, intone a big lament on the end of the world and surrender to a painful apocalyptic vision which evokes the horrors of mankind and earth:...

Young composers often make their living with incidental music. Such was the case of Leonid Desyatnikov (*1955) who wrote in his early years a lot of music for puppet shows and dramatic performances. L...

The Three Songs are settings of poems by Mandelstam which he wrote in exile in Voronesh before he was arrested for the second and last time. Three parallel developmental strands may be discerned in th...

The creation of the sextet was initiated by my friend and fellow pianist, Alexei Lubimov. It is about my city - Moscow, where I've lived for almost 40 years. I love this place. But, each time I return...

Mansuryan's collaboration of more than 10 years with the violinist Kim Kashkashian and her duo partner Robyn Schulkowsky (percussion) resulted in the composition of the works published here. In them,...

The organ composition 'Confession II' (2000) is a completely revised version of 'Confession' from 1993 - a second attempt 'to admit, to confess', so to speak - which this time is even more direct, mor...

En esta edición, Silvestrov ha recopilado por primera vez cinco ciclos de una multitud de 'Bagatellen', su género favorito en los últimos años - e incluso las ha grabado en CD (ECM). Lo que le interes...

This composition not only demands extremely high technical skills of the cellist, but also a special ability of expression which reflects the spiritual message of the piece: By thinking, feeling, spea...

'Veni, creator spiritus', 'Lacrimosa', 'Alleluja' - diese drei geistlichen Lieder von Valentin Silvestrov bergen zumindest sprachlich keine Probleme, dennoch stellen sie höchste Ansprüche an den bis z...

Los Cuatro Salmos (2024) -encargo de la Fundación Príncipe Pierre de Mónaco- están dedicados a Su Alteza Real la Princesa Carolina de Hannover. Este ciclo expresa la actitud espiritual y muy personal...

Alexander Glasunov's chorus 'Vniz po matushke po Volge' is unique, largely unknown and unpublished in the West so far. His elaboration of this elegiac Russian folk song evolves from the unanimously in...