M.P. Belaieff

Alfred Julius Swan (1890-1970) comes from an English family who has been engaged in the rubber business in Russia for generations. He attended the Conservatoire of St. Petersburg, studied law, music a...

The work was written for the saxophonist Margarita Shaposhnikova, professor at the Gnessin Institute (now Russian Academy of Music), and was performed by her in 1987 in the Great Hall of the Academy....

The present publication is based on an earlier vocal composition by Mansurian with the same title Four Hayrens for mezzo-soprano and piano (1967). Forty years later, in 2007 (and again revised in 2010...

This music was created in memory of Larissa Bondarenko, the late wife of the composer. The work is a hybrid combination of strophic lied form and Baroque lamento (more or less chaconne). The exquisite...

Original works for viola by Russian composers around the turn of the century are a true rarity. For this reason, this volume also includes works for which the authors have allowed two different possib...

This book contains Silvestrov's hitherto only works for solo violoncello created after 2000. The cello is one of the central instruments in the composer's oeuvre. In several works, he has managed to p...

With these demanding romantic performance pieces for violoncello and piano, Belaieff starts a new series in which 'hidden treasures' from the publisher's archives, i.e. works by Russian composers whic...

Mit diesen mittelschweren, romantischen Vortragsstücken für Violoncello und Klavier setzt Belaieff seine Reihe 'verborgene Schätze' des Verlagsarchivs fort. Weniger bekannte Werke und Autoren, vergrif...

In Armenia, the clarinet is considered a popular instrument. Almost all of our duduk players also play the clarinet. In some villages, they call it gralnet and they call the player gralnetist. In Para...

Anniversary edition on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Valentin Silvestrov: 'This work could well be called (in analogy to Bach's 'Art of Fugue') 'Art of Melody' if there were a didactic mission....

Anniversary edition on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Valentin Silvestrov: 'This work could well be called (in analogy to Bach's 'Art of Fugue') 'Art of Melody' if there were a didactic mission....

Anniversary edition on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Valentin Silvestrov: 'This work could well be called (in analogy to Bach's 'Art of Fugue') 'Art of Melody' if there were a didactic mission....

Anniversary edition on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Valentin Silvestrov: 'This work could well be called (in analogy to Bach's 'Art of Fugue') 'Art of Melody' if there were a didactic mission....

Anniversary edition on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Valentin Silvestrov: 'This work could well be called (in analogy to Bach's 'Art of Fugue') 'Art of Melody' if there were a didactic mission....

Con moto, poco rubato, dolce, leggiero, lontano ... - these terms at the beginning of the score occur in almost all compositions of Silvestrov, not only in those many smaller pieces for various ensemb...

Triptych was conceived and almost completely 'written' in my head during my walks around beautiful English countryside. And sometimes in such moments you switch off from reality and are able to see an...

Anniversary edition on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Valentin Silvestrov: 'This work could well be called (in analogy to Bach's 'Art of Fugue') 'Art of Melody' if there were a didactic mission....

Anniversary edition on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Valentin Silvestrov: 'This work could well be called (in analogy to Bach's 'Art of Fugue') 'Art of Melody' if there were a didactic mission....

Anniversary edition on the occasion of the 75th birthday of Valentin Silvestrov: 'This work could well be called (in analogy to Bach's 'Art of Fugue') 'Art of Melody' if there were a didactic mission....

Belaieff's archives contain many works from the pre-revolutionary period which absolutely deserve to be reprinted and included in the contemporary concert and educational repertoire. These pieces are...

With this homage, the composer bows to J.S. Bach by repackaging seemingly familiar things and listening sensitively after melody fragments and harmonies. The violin part, mostly supported by the piano...