M.P. Belaieff

Peter Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) composed the 6th Symphony between February and August 1893. The first performance in St Petersburg on 16 October 1893 at the First Symphony Concert of the Russian Musical...

Partitur - mit Revisionsbericht

This piece is governed by a principle similar to the one which obtains in the 'Etude sur le Carré magique sonore' (BEL 174). 8 interval cycles follow one another in close proximity and form a kind of...

In the silence of the monotonous steppes of Central Asia is heard the previously unfamiliar sound of a peaceful Russian song and from afar the clattering of horses and the footsteps of camels and the...

This anthology is not in fact a teaching tool, but can be used to complement a piano method. It contains pieces which were especially composed for piano duet, and arrangements of compositions in diffe...

This anthology is the continuation of 'Easy Pieces for Piano for 4 Hands' (BEL 752-10) containing more difficult compositions from the classical period to 20th century music. The anthology is suitable...

This anthology is the continuation of 'Easy Pieces for 4 Hands' (BEL752-10) and 'Works for Piano for 4 Hands' (752-20), containing more difficult and ambitious compositions from the classical period t...

Though Silvestrov's 'Elegy' for cello and two tam-tams continues the series of his earlier elegy compositions in some ways, it is here given a whole new shape, with the cello being accompanied by two...

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...

The 'Chaconne' for bajan with free-bass mode is not as much of a sequence of variations on an ostinato idea as is the classic chaconne. On the contrary, it is the character of the music alone that bea...

The first publication of two previously unknown piano pieces by Alexander Glasunov from 1928! It is highly likely that they are arrangements of Crimea Tatar folksongs, something that composers liked t...

'Pastelle' was written by one of Russia's most famous composers. Although one of Gretchaninoff's earliest works, this music already shows the characteristic features of his personal style. The gentle...

Rimsky-Korsakov is mainly known as the composer of numerous Russian operas and brilliant orchestral works. Many people do not know, however, that he wrote interesting and exquisite piano music as well...

This volume continues the 'Belle Epoque Russe' series in which previously hidden 'gems' from Belaieff's archives, music pieces from pre-revolutionary Russia, are made available in their original (alth...

Composed in 2006 for the 15th Oleg Kagan Festival in Wildbad Kreuth, 'Agnus Dei' is one of Mansurjan's meditative works in which he aims at a synthesis of new techniques and old Armenian musical tradi...

Soprano and bass clarinet, closely interwoven with each other, intone a big lament on the end of the world and surrender to a painful apocalyptic vision which evokes the horrors of mankind and earth:...

Young composers often make their living with incidental music. Such was the case of Leonid Desyatnikov (*1955) who wrote in his early years a lot of music for puppet shows and dramatic performances. L...