M.P. Belaieff

Stravinsky composed these songs during his honeymoon in 1906, and dedicated his settings of Alexander Pushkin's erotic and pastoral poems (which were based on works by Vicomte de Parni) to his young w...

Le compositeur tisse la polyphonie des voix des poètes (Pouchkine, Lermontov, Tioutchev, Baratynsky, Yesenin, Mandelstam, Keats, Shelley et d'autres) en un tout intégral, en une harmonie mystérieuse....

The choir sings: 'There exists in a distant land / On the opposite shore / What we see in dreams / But is given to the foe.' The Song is dedicated to the composer Alexander Raskatov, who had just emig...

The work was composed for the celebrations marking the millennium of the Christianization of Russia, and makes use of 16th-century Russian Orthodox texts. The first performance in Moscow on 26 Decembe...

Being the composer of sacred large-scale choral works (liturgies, masses), Alexander Gretchaninoff (1864-1956) is known to many people, also outside Russia. His early Four Chants Op. 4 for 4-8-part mi...

This volume contains both early works created in the 1950s-60s and the cycles 'Children's Music' I and II as well as 'Music in the Old Style' from 1973, within the early formative years of the compose...