The Composer Portraits series offers unique and original monographs on individual composers. Text and music introductions written by experts are combined with carefully chosen selections of newly-engraved music to give a concise but informed overview of the life and work of each composer. This edition focuses on the life and works of the Russian pianist and composer Igor Stravinsky . With notes by…

Intermezzo and Tarantella for Double Bass and Piano by the Russian composer Reinhold M. Glière, whose musical style represents a crucial link between Late Romanticism (Tchaikovsky) and Modernism (Prokofiev). / Contrebasse / Forberg

Inspired by his life-long interest in chant and choral music, Paul Mealor's De profundis pushes the boundaries of the human voice in a style synonymous with Russian orthodox music. In spring 2012 this piece sparked the 'Bass Hunter' competition - a world-wide talent search for the lowest human voice in existence. The note, an 'E' (329 Hertz), is six notes below the lowest note ever written for a c…

The Joy Of Rachmaninoff is a collection of 17 original and newly-arranged music by the great Russian Romanticist. Pieces Include Preludes Op.23, Op.32, Morceaux de Fantasie, Piano Sonata #2 and many more. / Piano

What Child Fantasy réunit deux mélodies traditionnelles de Noël : l'air anglais What Child is This? (Greensleeves) et la mélodie Russian Bell Song. Ces deux airs présentent une particularité commune : ils sont tous deux écrits dans un mode mineur, élément assez inhabituel pour un événement aussi réjouissant.Le Quintette de Cuivres Rekkenze Brass a été fondé par des membres de l'Orchestre Symphoniq…

From the larger collection of Men's Songs. The original uses a comic blend of Estonian and Russian to paint the picture of a soldier telling of his larger-than-life experience in war. Uses whistling and shouting to enhance the image. / Choeur Mixte Satb A Cappella

At the age of 20, having recently graduated from the Moscow Conservatory, Rachmaninoff wrote his Morceaux de Salon, Op. 10, in 1893, and 3 years later, the six Moments Musicaux. These beautiful works display a simple, often Chopinesque style of romanticism while bearing the unmistakable Russian flavor the composer captured in all his work. This is the 1989 Belwin-Mills edition.

Par PROKOFIEV SERGEI. The Russian ballet director Sergei Diaghilev commissioned many composers to write music for the theatre. This was what caused Serge Prokofiev to compose the four part Scytische Suite (also known as Ala and Lolli) in 1916, from which The Enemy God and the Dance of the Spirits can be heard on this CD. This suite is one of Prokofiev's first works, and received negative criticism…

für Klaviertrio. Par SHCHEDRIN RODION. Performed at the composer's 70th birthday concert at the Wigmore Hall, these pieces for Piano trio are testament to Shchedrin's breaking of the common perception of Russian composers, being very cheerful./ Répertoire / Violon, Violoncelle et Piano

Par RACHMANINOV SERGEI. Rachmaninoff lui-même considéré comme son Vêpres, aussi connu sous le titre de vigiles, l'une de ses meilleures compositions. Le travail est basé sur la vieille de plusieurs siècles orthodoxe chants avec leur forme liturgique stricte qui ont été fusionnés par Rachmaninoff à son propre lat / The Monuments of Russian Sacred Music Series IX, V / Répertoire / Choeur Mixte a Ca…