Piano Classics Explorer Set: Slavic Edition

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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Sergei Lyapunov, Felix Blumenfeld, Nikolai Medtner, Vitezslav Novak, Viktor Kosenko, Alexander Glazu
    • PERFORMER
      Various
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 22, 2023
    • UPC
      5029365102810
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      PCL10281
    • LABEL
      Piano Classics
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      10
    • GENRE
      Classical
    Works ⌄

    1. No. 1. Lullaby

      Composer: Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov

      Performer: Vincenzo Maltempo

    2. No. 2. Dance of the Ghosts

      Composer: Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov

      Performer: Vincenzo Maltempo

    3. No. 3. Pealing of Bells

      Composer: Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov

      Performer: Vincenzo Maltempo

    4. No. 4. Terek

      Composer: Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov

      Performer: Vincenzo Maltempo

    5. No. 5. Summer Night

      Composer: Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov

      Performer: Vincenzo Maltempo

    6. No. 6. Storm

      Composer: Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov

      Performer: Vincenzo Maltempo

    7. No. 7. Idyll

      Composer: Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov

      Performer: Vincenzo Maltempo

    8. No. 8. Epic Song

      Composer: Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov

      Performer: Vincenzo Maltempo

    9. No. 9. Aeolian Harps

      Composer: Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov

      Performer: Vincenzo Maltempo

    10. No. 10. Lesghinka

      Composer: Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov

      Performer: Vincenzo Maltempo

    11. No. 11. Dance of the Elves

      Composer: Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov

      Performer: Vincenzo Maltempo

    12. No. 12. Elegy in Memory of Franz Liszt

      Composer: Sergei Mikhailovich Lyapunov

      Performer: Vincenzo Maltempo

    13. No. 1. Les rochers d'Outche-Coche

      Composer: Sergei Bortkiewicz

      Performer: Pavel Gintov

    14. No. 2. Caprices de la mer

      Composer: Sergei Bortkiewicz

      Performer: Pavel Gintov

    15. No. 3. Idylle orientale

      Composer: Sergei Bortkiewicz

      Performer: Pavel Gintov

    16. No. 4. Chaos

      Composer: Sergei Bortkiewicz

      Performer: Pavel Gintov

    17. No. 1. Allegro quiasi presto

      Composer: Sergei Bortkiewicz

      Performer: Pavel Gintov

    18. No. 2. Andante con moto

      Composer: Sergei Bortkiewicz

      Performer: Pavel Gintov

    19. I. Con moto affettuoso

      Composer: Sergei Bortkiewicz

      Performer: Pavel Gintov

    20. II. Andantino

      Composer: Sergei Bortkiewicz

      Performer: Pavel Gintov

    21. III. Andantino

      Composer: Sergei Bortkiewicz

      Performer: Pavel Gintov

    22. IV. Con slancio

      Composer: Sergei Bortkiewicz

      Performer: Pavel Gintov

    23. No. 1. Lamentation in D Minor

      Composer: Sergei Bortkiewicz

      Performer: Pavel Gintov

    24. No. 2. Consolation in D Major

      Composer: Sergei Bortkiewicz

      Performer: Pavel Gintov

    25. No. 6. Sostenuto in G-Sharp Minor

      Composer: Sergei Bortkiewicz

      Performer: Pavel Gintov

    26. No. 10. Presto furioso in E Minor

      Composer: Sergei Bortkiewicz

      Performer: Pavel Gintov

    27. No. 2 in B Minor: Andante

      Composer: Sergei Bortkiewicz

      Performer: Pavel Gintov

    28. No. 4 in F-Sharp Major: Sostenuto

      Composer: Sergei Bortkiewicz

      Performer: Pavel Gintov

    29. No. 7 in E Major: Appassionato

      Composer: Sergei Bortkiewicz

      Performer: Pavel Gintov

    30. No. 3. La brune

      Composer: Sergei Bortkiewicz

      Performer: Pavel Gintov

    31. No. 6. Le heros

      Composer: Sergei Bortkiewicz

      Performer: Pavel Gintov

    32. Lamentations et Consolations, Op. 17: No. 8. Consolation in E-Flat Major (Sorrento)

      Composer: Sergei Bortkiewicz

      Performer: Pavel Gintov

    33. No. 1 in C Major: Andante religioso

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    34. No. 2 in A Minor: Allegro agitato

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    35. No. 3 in G Minor: Allegretto

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    36. No. 4 in E Minor: Andante

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    37. No. 5 in D Major: Allegretto

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    38. No. 6 in B Minor: Allegro molto

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    39. No. 7 in A Major: Allegro vivo

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    40. No. 8 in F-Sharp Minor: Allegro vivo

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    41. No. 9 in E Major: Maestoso

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    42. No. 10 in C-Sharp Minor: Andante

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    43. No. 11 in B Major: Andante con moto

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    44. No. 12 in G shapr minor: Presto

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    45. No. 13 in F-Sharp Major: Andantino

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    46. No. 14 in E-Flat Minor: Andante maestoso e lugubre

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    47. No. 15 in D-Flat Major: Allegro non tanto

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    48. No. 16 in B-Flat Minor: Adagio

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    49. No. 17 in A-Flat Major: Allegro

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    50. No. 18 in F Minor, "Memento mori": Andante

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    51. No. 19 in E-Flat Major: Andante

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    52. No. 20 in C Minor: Allegro furioso

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    53. No. 21 in B-Flat Major: Andante tranquillo

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    54. No. 22 in G Minor: Allegro

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    55. No. 23 in F Major: Allegro

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    56. No. 24 in D Minor: Presto

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    57. Etude for the left hand in A-Flat Major, Op. 36

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    58. Etude de concert in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 24

      Composer: Felix Blumenfeld

      Performer: Mark Viner

    59. No. 1. Sonata reminiscenza

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Mattia Ometto

    60. No. 2. Danza graziosa —

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Mattia Ometto

    61. No. 3. Danza festiva

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Mattia Ometto

    62. No. 4. Canzona fluviala

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Mattia Ometto

    63. No. 5. Danza rustica

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Mattia Ometto

    64. No. 6. Canzona serenata

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Mattia Ometto

    65. No. 7. Danza silvestra

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Mattia Ometto

    66. No. 8. Alla Reminiscenza

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Mattia Ometto

    67. No. 7. Danza silvestra (version with different coda)

      Composer: Nikolai Medtner

      Performer: Mattia Ometto

    68. I. Andantino

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Vincenzo Maltempo

    69. II. Mazurka: Moderato

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Vincenzo Maltempo

    70. III. Intermezzo: Larghetto

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Vincenzo Maltempo

    71. IV. Allegro non troppo, ma con fuoco

      Composer: Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Performer: Vincenzo Maltempo

    72. I. Moderato

      Composer: Alexander Glazunov

      Performer: Vincenzo Maltempo

    73. II. Scherzo: Allegretto

      Composer: Alexander Glazunov

      Performer: Vincenzo Maltempo

    74. III. Finale: Allegro moderato

      Composer: Alexander Glazunov

      Performer: Vincenzo Maltempo

    75. I. Andante con moto - Allegro agitato

      Composer: Viktor Stepanovych Kosenko

      Performer: Vincenzo Maltempo

    76. II. Moderato assai espressivo

      Composer: Viktor Stepanovych Kosenko

      Performer: Vincenzo Maltempo

    77. III. Allegro vivo

      Composer: Viktor Stepanovych Kosenko

      Performer: Vincenzo Maltempo

    78. I. Prolog (Prologue)

      Composer: Vítězslav Novák

      Performer: Tobias Borsboom

    79. II. Hory (Mountains)

      Composer: Vítězslav Novák

      Performer: Tobias Borsboom

    80. III. Moře (Sea)

      Composer: Vítězslav Novák

      Performer: Tobias Borsboom

    81. IV. Les (Forest)

      Composer: Vítězslav Novák

      Performer: Tobias Borsboom

    82. V. Žena (Woman)

      Composer: Vítězslav Novák

      Performer: Tobias Borsboom

    83. I. Mélodie

      Composer: George Enescu

      Performer: Saskia Giorgini

    84. II. Voix de la steppe

      Composer: George Enescu

      Performer: Saskia Giorgini

    85. III. Mazurk mélancolique

      Composer: George Enescu

      Performer: Saskia Giorgini

    86. IV. Burlesque

      Composer: George Enescu

      Performer: Saskia Giorgini

    87. V. Appassionato

      Composer: George Enescu

      Performer: Saskia Giorgini

    88. VI. Choral

      Composer: George Enescu

      Performer: Saskia Giorgini

    89. VII. Carillon nocturne

      Composer: George Enescu

      Performer: Saskia Giorgini

    90. I. Vivace con brio

      Composer: George Enescu

      Performer: Saskia Giorgini

    91. II. Andantino cantabile

      Composer: George Enescu

      Performer: Saskia Giorgini

    92. III. Allegro con spirito

      Composer: George Enescu

      Performer: Saskia Giorgini

    93. I. Duma

      Composer: Ihor Shamo

      Performer: Dimitri Tchesnokov

    94. II. Vesnyanka

      Composer: Ihor Shamo

      Performer: Dimitri Tchesnokov

    95. III. Melodie

      Composer: Ihor Shamo

      Performer: Dimitri Tchesnokov

    96. IV. Tanz

      Composer: Ihor Shamo

      Performer: Dimitri Tchesnokov

    97. I. Troika

      Composer: Ihor Shamo

      Performer: Dimitri Tchesnokov

    98. II. Summer Evening

      Composer: Ihor Shamo

      Performer: Dimitri Tchesnokov

    99. III. Morning in the Woods

      Composer: Ihor Shamo

      Performer: Dimitri Tchesnokov

    100. IV. Volodymyrka

      Composer: Ihor Shamo

      Performer: Dimitri Tchesnokov

    101. V. Little Birch Tree

      Composer: Ihor Shamo

      Performer: Dimitri Tchesnokov

    102. VI. Country Dance

      Composer: Ihor Shamo

      Performer: Dimitri Tchesnokov

    103. Vesnianka

      Composer: Ihor Shamo

      Performer: Dimitri Tchesnokov

    104. I. Prelude

      Composer: Ihor Shamo

      Performer: Dimitri Tchesnokov

    105. II. Menuet

      Composer: Ihor Shamo

      Performer: Dimitri Tchesnokov

    106. III. Aria

      Composer: Ihor Shamo

      Performer: Dimitri Tchesnokov

    107. IV. Courante

      Composer: Ihor Shamo

      Performer: Dimitri Tchesnokov

    108. V. Gavotte

      Composer: Ihor Shamo

      Performer: Dimitri Tchesnokov

    109. VI. Gigue

      Composer: Ihor Shamo

      Performer: Dimitri Tchesnokov

    110. No. 1. Sehnsucht

      Composer: Dora Pejačević

      Performer: Ekaterina Litvintseva

    111. No. 2. Leid

      Composer: Dora Pejačević

      Performer: Ekaterina Litvintseva

    112. No. 3. Frage

      Composer: Dora Pejačević

      Performer: Ekaterina Litvintseva

    113. No. 4. Klage

      Composer: Dora Pejačević

      Performer: Ekaterina Litvintseva

    114. No. 5. Bitte

      Composer: Dora Pejačević

      Performer: Ekaterina Litvintseva

    115. No. 6. Wahn

      Composer: Dora Pejačević

      Performer: Ekaterina Litvintseva

    116. No. 1. Schneeglöckchen

      Composer: Dora Pejačević

      Performer: Ekaterina Litvintseva

    117. No. 2. Veilchen

      Composer: Dora Pejačević

      Performer: Ekaterina Litvintseva

    118. No. 3. Maiglöckchen

      Composer: Dora Pejačević

      Performer: Ekaterina Litvintseva

    119. No. 4. Vergißmeinnicht

      Composer: Dora Pejačević

      Performer: Ekaterina Litvintseva

    120. No. 5. Rose

      Composer: Dora Pejačević

      Performer: Ekaterina Litvintseva

    121. No. 6. Rote Nelken

      Composer: Dora Pejačević

      Performer: Ekaterina Litvintseva

    122. No. 7. Lilien

      Composer: Dora Pejačević

      Performer: Ekaterina Litvintseva

    123. No. 8. Chrysanthemen

      Composer: Dora Pejačević

      Performer: Ekaterina Litvintseva

    124. No. 1. Moderato

      Composer: Dora Pejačević

      Performer: Ekaterina Litvintseva

    125. No. 2. Grazioso

      Composer: Dora Pejačević

      Performer: Ekaterina Litvintseva

    126. No. 3. Im Ländler-Tempo

      Composer: Dora Pejačević

      Performer: Ekaterina Litvintseva

    127. No. 4. Wiegend

      Composer: Dora Pejačević

      Performer: Ekaterina Litvintseva

    128. No. 5. Lento

      Composer: Dora Pejačević

      Performer: Ekaterina Litvintseva

    129. No. 6. Tempo giusto

      Composer: Dora Pejačević

      Performer: Ekaterina Litvintseva

    130. No. 7. Allegretto

      Composer: Dora Pejačević

      Performer: Ekaterina Litvintseva

    131. No. 8. Grazioso, allegremente

      Composer: Dora Pejačević

      Performer: Ekaterina Litvintseva

    132. No. 9. Moderato

      Composer: Dora Pejačević

      Performer: Ekaterina Litvintseva

    133. No. 1. An Dich!

      Composer: Dora Pejačević

      Performer: Ekaterina Litvintseva

    134. No. 2. Vor deinem Bild

      Composer: Dora Pejačević

      Performer: Ekaterina Litvintseva

    135. Capriccio, Op. 47

      Composer: Dora Pejačević

      Performer: Ekaterina Litvintseva

    136. No. 1. Sehr ruhig, mit innigem Ausdruck

      Composer: Dora Pejačević

      Performer: Ekaterina Litvintseva

    137. No. 2. Leicht bewegt und verträumt

      Composer: Dora Pejačević

      Performer: Ekaterina Litvintseva

    138. Piano Sonata in A-Flat Major, Op. 57

      Composer: Dora Pejačević

      Performer: Ekaterina Litvintseva

    139. No. 1. Allegretto

      Composer: Koharik Gazarossian

      Performer: Nare Karoyan

    140. No. 2. Animé et grouillant

      Composer: Koharik Gazarossian

      Performer: Nare Karoyan

    141. No. 3. Andantino

      Composer: Koharik Gazarossian

      Performer: Nare Karoyan

    142. No. 4. Vivo - Meno mosso

      Composer: Koharik Gazarossian

      Performer: Nare Karoyan

    143. No. 5. Allegretto

      Composer: Koharik Gazarossian

      Performer: Nare Karoyan

    144. No. 6. Con spirito

      Composer: Koharik Gazarossian

      Performer: Nare Karoyan

    145. No. 7. Andantino cantabile

      Composer: Koharik Gazarossian

      Performer: Nare Karoyan

    146. No. 8. Andante espressivo

      Composer: Koharik Gazarossian

      Performer: Nare Karoyan

    147. No. 9. Con moto e con anima

      Composer: Koharik Gazarossian

      Performer: Nare Karoyan

    148. No. 10. A la marcia

      Composer: Koharik Gazarossian

      Performer: Nare Karoyan

    149. No. 11. Allegretto con spirito

      Composer: Koharik Gazarossian

      Performer: Nare Karoyan

    150. No. 12. Allegro majestuoso

      Composer: Koharik Gazarossian

      Performer: Nare Karoyan

    151. No. 13. Comodo e tranquillo

      Composer: Koharik Gazarossian

      Performer: Nare Karoyan

    152. No. 14. Con moto

      Composer: Koharik Gazarossian

      Performer: Nare Karoyan

    153. No. 15. Allegretto grazioso

      Composer: Koharik Gazarossian

      Performer: Nare Karoyan

    154. No. 16. Allegretto

      Composer: Koharik Gazarossian

      Performer: Nare Karoyan

    155. No. 17. Lento

      Composer: Koharik Gazarossian

      Performer: Nare Karoyan

    156. No. 18. Moderato

      Composer: Koharik Gazarossian

      Performer: Nare Karoyan

    157. No. 19. Vivo

      Composer: Koharik Gazarossian

      Performer: Nare Karoyan

    158. No. 20. Vif et rhythmé

      Composer: Koharik Gazarossian

      Performer: Nare Karoyan

    159. No. 21. Allegro

      Composer: Koharik Gazarossian

      Performer: Nare Karoyan

    160. No. 22. Allegretto

      Composer: Koharik Gazarossian

      Performer: Nare Karoyan

    161. No. 23. Grazioso

      Composer: Koharik Gazarossian

      Performer: Nare Karoyan

    162. No. 24. Allegro furioso

      Composer: Koharik Gazarossian

      Performer: Nare Karoyan


A budget-priced box of critically acclaimed piano albums exploring the rich diversity of Slavic piano music: an ideal introduction to the Romantic and post-Romantic world of Slavic pianism beyond the canon of Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff.

The notable feature of this set dedicated to piano music by composers from Slavic nations is its sheer diversity. It would be possible to trace their writing for the keyboard back variously to Chopin and Schumann, but the same could be said of any other group of composers around Europe from the late 19th century onwards. What the set does illustrate is the rise of pianists, trained in a system that became known as the ‘Russian Piano School’, who could take on such formidably demanding scores as Lyapunov’s Transcendental Studies and Medtner’s ‘Winter Wind’ Sonata.

Pianist-composers such as Bortkeiwicz, Blumenfeld and Medtner flourished across Europe in the first decades of the last century, and so did piano manufacturers, producing ever more reliable and tonally sophisticated instruments that could cope with the rigours of these scores. A generation before them, Viteslav Novak in the Czech Republic and Dora Pejacevic in Croatia were writing less prodigiously demanding music which took its expressive cue from the tone-pictures of Schumann rather than the broader canvases of Liszt. In Ukraine, Viktor Kosenko was one of several composers here to use old church modes in his narmony, lending it both a patina of antiquity and at times an other-worldly novelty. In Romania, George Enescu pursued this path still further in finding a new world for the piano hardly less distinctive than Scriabin’s.

Back in Ukraine, the music of Ihor Shamo embodies a kind of melancholy yearning that is both a natural inheritance from Rachmaninoff and perhaps the nearest to a ‘Slavic’ expressive trait. All the performances here were recorded within the last decade and received with critical enthusiasm on their release.

This budget reissue includes all the original sleeve notes, making it a worthwhile investment for collectors and newcomers alike.

Past praise of previously released volumes included in this set:

Blumenfeld: Préludes (24) / Mark Viner

A welcome disc that adds two substantial Etudes in addition to the Preludes. Felix Blumenfeld (1863–1931), was a celebrated pianist, conductor, and teacher whose pupils included Horowitz and Barere. That is certainly worth boasting about. Of his own compositions, there is certainly plenty of craftsmanship at hand, if maybe not the ultimate in originality. Would I recommend this? Definitely.

-- American Record Guide

Pejačević: Piano Music / Ekaterina Litvintseva

Ekaterina Litvintseva’s new anthology covering about half of Dora Pejačević's piano music seriously raises her profile. Moving chronologically from her early salonesque trifles to her powerful Second Sonata, a work clearly preparing the way for an abandonment of tonality, it features exceptional playing from the supremely gifted pianist.

-- Fanfare

Novák: Pan / Tobias Borsboom

Inspired by the idea of the Greek god Pan, the work is a sprawling and ambitious one that evokes impressionist uses of tone color and Richard Strauss’s tone poems. There are lovely movements, especially in the blossoming melodies in `Mountains’. `Sea’ has some rippling melodies and lush harmonies. Borsboom offers useful liner notes to illuminate the use of thematic material in the work, especially how the `Prologue’ presents a theme and melodies that appear in the rest of the movements. It is a bit hard to hear the cyclical unity, though, and this music might not be everyone’s cup of tea. Borsboom’s playing is very capable.

-- American Record Guide

Enescu: Suite, Op. 18; Piano Sonata No. 3 / Saskia Giorgini

Saskia Giorgini’s idiomatic virtuosity is completely at one with Enescu’s sound world. By holding the first-movement of the Third Sonata's Vivace con brio ever-so-slightly back, Giorgini secures steadier rhythm throughout and conveys greater differentiation between detached and sustained passages. She keeps the long Andantino cantabile hauntingly afloat as she contours the music’s melodic, accompanimental and purely decorative elements in three-dimensional perspective. The same can be said regarding the Allegro con spirito’s conversational counterpoint and appropriately muted left-hand repeated-note ostinatos; here is where the Bösendorfer’s ‘fortepiano in the body of a concert grand’ timbre particularly speaks. In short, Giorgini has truly internalized this elusive, oddly gripping music, whetting the appetite for an eventual Enescu cycle. Recommended.

-- Gramophone