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December 29, 2018 - Russian Winter


Here in Southern California we can only celebrate Winter vicariously, and nothing says "Winter" like Russia.


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Disk 1
Traditional:   Russian Dances (3)
Joseph Starzer:   Divertimento in A minor
    (very late Baroque, c 1780 **)
Alfred Schnittke   Concerto Groso #1 (1977)
Daniel Stelbolt:   Variations on Russian
    Folk Tunes (c 1820 **)
Traditional:   Russian Dance


1->3
5->8

10->15
17

19
Disk 2
Dmitry Shostakovich:   Execution of Stepan Rozin  
    (1964)
Traditional:   Russian Folk Songs (3)
Boris Tchaikovsky:   Chamber Symphony (1967)
Sergei Prokofiev:   Suite from Chout (1916)


1

3->5
7->12
14->18
Disk 3
Serge Prokofiev:   Piano Concerto #3 (1921)
Boris Tchaikovsky:   Concerto for Clarinet (1957)
Rodion Shchedrin:   Piano Concerto #1 (1954)
Arcona   from Ot Serdcak k Nebu (2007)


1->3
5->7
9->12
14->16
Disk 4
Rodion Shchedrin:   Crystal Psaltery (1999)
Sergei Rachmaninov:   Etudes-Tableaux op33
    (1911)
Alfred Schnittke:   Sonata #1 for Cello, Piano
    (1998)
Rodion Shchedrin:   Symphony #5 (1998)


1
3->10

12

14

**   Baroque pieces are from the court of St. Petersburg, where the Baroque style survived for 50 years after it became extinct in the rest of Europe. The composers employed were mostly refugees from the extinction.

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