Russian Album. Popular Pieces For Piano. Part 4.

For this collection of pieces Nicolai Podgornov has produced masterful arrangements of classics from Russian operas ballets and symphonies. Compositions such as the famous waltz from Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty or the main theme from his Swan Lake the waltz from Shostakovich’s Jazz Suite No. 2 Prokofiev’s Montagues and Capulets from the ballet Romeo and Juliet Khachaturian’s Sabre Dance from Gayane and his Adagio from the ballet Spartacus all of these are sure to give great pleasure to intermediate-level Piano students.Nicolai Podgornov has expertly arranged these popular pieces with easy fingering so that playing them is straightforward after all familiar pieces are easier to master.

44 Pieces By Rachmaninoff Scriabin Mussorgsky and Others-Nineteenth-century Europe's immersion into Romanticism fostered a 'back to nature' movement in which artists turned toward folk music for inspiration. This collection spotlights the works of important Russian composers who drew upon and popularized folk melodies of their native country. Forty-four stirring pieces reflect the influence of Russia's peasant songs as well as the tonality and rhythms of music from the Russo-Greek Orthodox Church and Tartar culture. Suitable for intermediate-level pianists of all ages this collection features contributions from Michael Glinka hailed a century ago as 'the father of Russian musical art.' Additional contributors includeAlexander Borodin Modest Mussorgsky Nikolas Rimsky-Korsakov Alexander Scriabin Sergei Rachmaninoff and other composers. Reprint of the Carl Fischer New York 1915 edition.