M.P. Belaieff

Le 1er quatuor à cordes (1983-1984) de Mansurian nous mène sur le long chemin de la simplicité, en un voyage enchanté dans le déroulement duquel la question de savoir si cette musique est nouvelle ou...

Silvestrov's violin sonata 'Post scriptum' is another of his chamber music postludes. The composer once stated that the title of the work signifies that it is 'a postscript to Mozart and the whole cla...

The Violin Concerto op. 82 is one of Glazunov's best-known works. Since the first performance in 1905 conducted by the composer, when Leopold Auer was the soloist, virtually all the great violinists h...

Victor Kissine's 'Caprice' was performed at the Brussels concert hall of Flagey in May 2012 by 24 semifinalists at the Belgian Queen Elisabeth Music Competition. 'Although commissioned by and composed...

Basée sur les mélodies les plus belles et les plus populaires de l'opéra de Borodine Le Prince Igor, cette fantaisie contient à la fois passages virtuoses et cantilènes expressives. La composition se...

Les transcriptions pour violon et piano réalisées par Wladimir Pogojeff de deux épisodes du ballet 'Raymonda' d'Alexandre Glazounov comptent parmi les plus connues des arrangements de cette œuvre. Le...

Glazunov's Organ Works, which include intricate fugues and double fugues, show that during his lifetime he was the only important Russian composer to write for the organ. His numerous works combine th...

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...

Les (oEuvres pour piano du compositeur, chef d'orchestre et pianiste Felix Blumenfeld (1863-1931) n'ont injustement reçu que peu d'attention lors des dernières décennies. Avec la nouvelle édition des...

Quasi Vc-solo means that the two cellists shall communicate with each other in a very careful and gentle way, shall respond to each other in a sensitive way, to sound as only one instrument, a cello '...

The work Path (1987) unfolds so to say from top to bottom. The descending line is metonymic with the path through life - from birth to grave. The beginning flageolets of the cellos and the simple moti...