Partituras medio de M.P. Belaieff

Mansurjan's String Quartet No. 1 (1983-84) takes us 'on the long road of simplicity, on a wonderful journey during which the question whether this music is new or old can be answered very soon: It is...

The work was composed in 1999 when a close member of composer's family fell seriously ill. The ode of lamentation is assigned to the two instruments in such a way that they play singly in swift succes...

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...

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...

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....

This fantasia is based on the most popular and beautiful melodies from the opera 'Prince Igor' by Borodin, containing both virtuoso passages and expressive cantilenas. Since the setting is quite easy...

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...

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...

The edition is part of the Trinity syllabus 2007 (grade 8)

Alexander Glasunov's famous Saxophone Quartet Op. 109 (1932) is one of his last works and, at the same time, one of the earliest quartets for this instrumentation at all. The work is virtually a littl...

Alexander Glasunov's famous Saxophone Quartet Op. 109 (1932) is one of his last works and, at the same time, one of the earliest quartets for this instrumentation at all. The work is virtually a littl...

Mansurian studied Beethoven's 6 Bagatelles Op. 126 and coupled them with thoughts by Proust and T. S. Eliot: The smallest things in life, the little, seemingly useless facts of everyday life are given...

After I had dedicated my first quartet (1983/84) to the memory of a friend and musician who died young, I had to mourn the death of yet another friend: Eduard Khagagortyan. To him, I dedicated my seco...

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...

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:...

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...

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...

Being the composer of sacred large-scale choral works (liturgies, masses), Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956) is known to many people, also outside Russia. His early Four Chants Op. 4 for 4-8-part mi...

The edition contains two string quartet miniatures which are 43 years apart. Quartetto piccolo (1961) is Valentin Silvestrov's first twelve-note composition which consists of three little movements me...