Composer: Lubomir Pipkov
Performer: Dobromir Tsenov
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Toccata Classics
Catalogue: TOCC 0656
Release: 2022
Size: 1.04 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. Ancient Dance, Op. 26
Spring Caprices, Op. 78
02. No. 1, Game
03. No. 2, Ancient Bulgarian Chorale
04. No. 3, Chant
05. No. 4, Dance
06. No. 5, Half-Awake
07. No. 6, Peasant Dance
08. No. 7, Pastorale
09. No. 8, Intermezzo
10. No. 9, Moments fugitifs
11. No. 10, Return
12. No. 11, Étude
13. No. 12, Bright and Dark
14. No. 13, 2 Rhythmic Variations
15. No. 14, Instead of Goodbye
16. No. 15, Burlesque
17. No. 16, Rhythms
From 1 to 15, Op. 81
18. No. 1, On the Rail Track
19. No. 2, Autumn Fog
20. No. 3, Complaint
21. No. 4, Haidushka Mountain
22. No. 5, Spring Whistles
23. No. 6, Dragon Holes
24. No. 7, Peasant Dance
25. No. 8, Heavy Peasant Dance
26. No. 9, Colourful Written Bagpipe Tune
27. No. 10, Forest Conversation
28. No. 11, Small Ballade
29. No. 12, Bearman with Bear
30. No. 13, Thought
31. No. 14, Nostalgia
32. No. 15, Recitative
33. No. 16, Chorale
34. No. 17, Village Celebration
35. No. 18, Toccata
36. No. 19, Novelette
Lubomir Pipkov (1904–74) was one of the leading members of the so-called ‘second generation’ of Bulgarian composers. In later life he became fascinated with the ancient heritage of Bulgarian folk-music, writing a series of what he called ‘metro-rhythmical studies’ – piano miniatures that combine melodic immediacy and rhythmic complexity, with a character that might be loosely characterised as sounding like ‘Prokofiev in the Balkans’.