Composer: Anatoly Alexandrov
Performer: Kyung-Ah Noh
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata
Catalogue: TOCC0186
Release: 2013
Size: 255 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Ballade, Op. 49
4 Narratives, Op. 48
02. No. 1. Andante
03. No. 2. What the sea spoke about during the storm: Allegro impetuoso
04. No. 3. What the sea spoke of on the morning after the storm: Andantino, un poco con moto
05. No. 4. In memory of A.M. Dianov: Andante, molto cantabile
Piano Sonata No. 8 in B Flat, Op. 50
06. I. Allegretto giocoso
07. II. Andante cantabile e pensieroso
08. III. Energico, Con moto assai
Echoes of the Theatre, Op. 60
09. No. 1. Aria: Adagio molto cantabile
10. No. 2. Galliarde and Pavana: Vivo
11. No. 3. Chorale and Polka: Andante
12. No. 4. Waltz: Tempo di valse tranquillo
13. No. 5. Dances in the Square and Siciliana: Quasi improvisata – Allegretto
14. No. 6. Gavotte: Tempo di gavotte
Romantic Episodes, Op. 88
15. No. 1. Moderato
16. No. 2. Allegro molto
17. No. 3. Sostenuto, severo
18. No. 4. Andantino, molto grazioso e rubato
19. No. 5. Allegro
20. No. 6. Adagio, cantabile
21. No. 7. Andante
22. No. 8. Allegro giocoso
23. No. 9. Sostenuto, lugubre
24. No. 10. Tempestoso e maestoso
Anatoly Alexandrov is one of the forgotten figures of the Russian school of pianism that embraced Taneyev, Rachmaninov, Skryabin, Shostakovich, Gilels and so many other composers and pianists.
Alexandrov composed fourteen sonatas and much else for piano in an attractive late-Romantic style that owes much to Nikolai Medtner, his teacher and friend.
This first volume in the first-ever survey of his piano music presents a conspectus of works composed between 1939 and 1962, many of them first recordings.