M.P. Belaieff

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...

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...

(1887) -aus 'Fürst Igor' - für Alt, Frauenchor und Klavier- (TA: Nacht, o brich doch schnell ein) - Alt solo und Frauenchor und Klavier

Nabokov's work is an evocation of Pushkin's return in 1835 to the country estate where some ten years before he had suffered a two-year exile. The text, in Russian, is Pushkin's poem on the subject. T...

Le opere contenute in questo volume sono disposte in ordine cronologico e, in qualche misura, in base al loro carattere stilistico. I Cinque pezzi (1961), la Triade (1962) e l'Elegia (1967), che Silve...

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...