M.P. Belaieff

In this showpiece with alienated Mozart motifs, Raskatov plays with as much humour and with as, for example, in his Tchaikovsky paraphrase The Season's Digest. The work bears the ambiguous subtitle no...

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...

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 first publication of two previously unknown piano pieces by Alexander Glasunov from 1928! It is highly likely that they are arrangements of Crimea Tatar folksongs, something that composers liked t...

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...

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...

'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...

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...

I. For Christmas - a real Christmas gift to the composer's parents dating 1958, by which the 15 year old obtained his famous father's recognition as a composer. II. A waltz with surprise modulations w...

The Inventions represent three different treatments of the two-part keybord form improved by J. S. Bach and re-created by Béla Bartók and others.

Symphonic Prayer op. 93 was composed in July 1959. The first performance was conducted by Eleazar de Carvalho at the opening concert of the Pan-American Music Festival in Chicago in August of the same...