M.P. Belaieff

In a quiet, entirely conventional barcarole à la Chopin or Tchaikovsky disturbing alarm bells ring, before getting finally brutalized (revealing the main theme of Reinhold Glière's ‘Hymn to a Great Ci...

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 mo...

This piano piece is of historical importance for Russian and Soviet music, for it was the first to make some use of dodecaphonic techniques. However, the composer used the technique in an intuitive wa...

This volume contains piano works from the years 1996-2003 in which Silvestrov's new compositional language becomes clearly apparent: Although the music shows, both visually and acoustically, Classical...

The album is dedicated to Ailika (being 5 years old in 1982), the eldest daughter of violinist Gidon Kremer. Everybody expected she would also adopt a musical career, however Lika Kremer became a famo...

Felix Blumenfeld (1863-1931) was not only a well-known composer, but also a great pianist and renowned professor. One of his master pupils was Vladimir Horowitz. As a conductor of the Mariinsky Theatr...