"Carmen" is the comic opera by G. Bizet (1838-1875) in 4 acts. Libretto by H. Meilhac and L. Halevy after P. Merimee's novel of the same name. The premiere took place at the Opera Comique in Paris. However,...
Drawn sea and drawn ship is floating with drawn monks, or just pilgrims on its board. All of them are looking a bit crazy, although feeling happy indeed. Feasts are getting arranged, dashing songs are...
Sergei Mikhailovich Slonimsky (born in 1932) is one of the leading modern Russian composers. His creation embraces actually all the genres. Remember the musical drama "Virineya" (1965-1967) after the novel...
Prince Igor is the opera by A. Borodin in 4 acts with prologue. Libretto was written by the composer himself on the base of V. Stasov's "The Song of Igor's Campaign". N. Rimsky-Korsakov and A. Glazunov...
Andrey Petrov (1930-2006) was born in Leningrad. In 1954 he graduated from the Leningrad Conservatoire, where he studied composition at professor O. A. Yevlakhov's class. Among the titles he was awarded...
The 'Collected Works' by Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin is a scholarly, practice- oriented edition of the great Russian composer's oeuvre. Its purpose is to present critically verified texts of Scriabin's...
These volumes are the first releases of an ambitious series started in 1999 by DSCH, the exclusive publisher of the works of Dmitri Shostakovich. Each volume contains new engravings; articles regarding...
Sergei Mikhailovich Slonimsky is one of the leading modern Russian composers. His creation embraces actually all the genres. Remember the musical drama "Virineya" (1965-1967) after the novel by L. Seyfullina,...
Andrey Petrov (1930-2006) was born in Leningrad. In 1954 he graduated from the Leningrad Conservatoire, where he studied composition at professor O. A. Yevlakhov's class. Among the titles he was awarded...
The Concerto for violin and orchestra was completed in 1966, being dedicated to the violinist Mikhail Vaiman, its first performer.
The Concerto continues the thread of the most dramatic opuses in...
Sergei Mikhailovich Slonimsky is one of the leading modern Russian composers. His creation embraces actually all the genres. Remember the musical drama "Virineya" (1965-1967) after the novel by L. Seyfullina,...
Aram Ilyich Hachaturyan (1903-1978) is truly considered to be the classic of the Russian music ever living in the 20th century. Among his creations there are numerous drama, symphony and chamber compositions,...
"Война и мир" С. Прокофьева - произведение могучей силы и выразительности. Либретто основано на подлинном тексте романа, не подвергшемся стихотворной обработке. Композитор ставил перед собой задачу передать...
The world of Old Viennese classics is not ranked among the galaxy of my passions. I am long and firmly inspired by the cultural epochs framing the golden age of Viennese classicists.
First of all...
For Voice and Piano. Instrumented by Dmitri Shostakovich.
Appendix. Eight British and American Folksongs. Arranged for Voice and Piano by Victor Ekimovsky.
Valery Aleksandrovich Gavrilin (1939-1999) is the distinguished Russian composer, having lived in the last third of the 20th century. His creative work is considered to be the kind of brilliant and original...
Это одна из самых "загадочных" опер великого русского композитора. Мусоргский отзывался он ней как о том источнике, из которого он черпал свою интонационную "правду" - живой речитативный поток, чуткий...
Сергей Михайлович Слонимский (р. 1932) - один из интереснейших отечественных композиторов настоящего времени, автор произведений во всех жанрах. Его перу принадлежат музыкальная драма "Виринея" (1965-1967)...
В начале 1897 года Римский-Корсаков положил на музыку небольшую сцену из "маленькой трагедии" Пушкина "Моцарт и Сальери". Летом композитор написал еще две сцены, а в августе того же года завершил оперу....
В сборнике представлены переложения фрагментов популярной музыки из оперетт Оффенбаха: "Двое слепых", "Орфей в аду", "Прекрасная Елена", "Синяя Борода", "Парижская жизнь", "Перикола", "Разбойники", "Сказки...