Tchaikovsky's song "The Sun has Set" is part of the last set of songs #Tchaikovsky wrote. But it is full of life and overflowing with that special "Tchaikovskian exuberance"...
#Transcription and #piano: Julia Severus
Rodion #Shchedrin (16.12.1932 – 28.8.2025)
He was one of the most important and internationally renowned Soviet-Russian composers of the 20th and 21st centuries, whose work spanned almost all genres.
Listen to his Hommage à #Chopin for 4 pianos...
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Johann Sebastian Bach, one of the greatest musical geniuses of all times, died 275 years ago, on 28 July 1750. From the Well-tempered clavier II, excerpt from the Fugue in a minor.
#Bach#Fugue#Leipzig
The Orchestral Suite composed by 18-year old #Rachmaninov was lost but his transcription for solo piano was found in Moscow in 2002. The second movement develops its tragic theme of introverted suffering into a large hymn...
#orchestralsuite#pianotransciption#pianomusic
#Rachmaninov's song „In the Silence of the Mysterious Night“ begins in an atmosphere of sensuality and longing and culminates in a Rachmaninovian euphoria with a touch of despair...
Transcription for solo piano by Julia #Severus.
#russianmusic#pianomusic#pianotranscription
The review of 1898 in the Musikpädagogische Blätter called #Barjansky’s Sonata No. 2 "A serious, captivating work. Deep, truly painful sentiment, natural, flourishing melody [...] interesting, modern harmony without extravagances..."
#newpiano#classicalpiano#russianmusic
#Barjansky's Fantasy Piece Op. 9 No. 5 is an intimate dialogue with questions and answers, reflections and feelings that are exchanged and shared...
More of Barjansky’s piano works on the album GP796.
#newpiano#classicalmusic#pianomusic#russianpiano
This year we are celebrating the 125th anniversary of the Russian composer and pianist Adolf #Barjansky, who died in 1900. The first of his fantasy pieces, published in 1885, is characterised by its chromaticism...
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1 April: Rachmaninov's birthday
This is the beginning of the 1st mvt. of Rachmaninov's piano transcription of his orchestral suite found in 2002 in Moscow. Featured on the album "Rachmaninov: Rare Piano Transcriptions" by @naxosmusic
#Rachmaninov#pianomusic#birthday
Today is the 340th birthday of J. S. Bach, about whom Reger said that he was ‘the beginning and the end of all music’.
Can we imagine life without Bach?
My love and fascination with Bach led me to write a dissertation his articulation practice....
#Bach#piano#baroque
Bizet150!
Bizet’s Ronde turque contains elements of Turkish military music: recurrent rhythmic figures, sharply dotted notes, appoggiaturas and arpeggios, the melody turning narrowly around central obstinate notes.
Enjoy !
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