20th Century Piano Works

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Firma Melodiya presents piano works of Russian musical avant-garde of the 1960s to 1990s performed by Olga Andryushchenko. The Russian pianist now residing in Germany, Olga Andryushchenko graduated from the Moscow Conservatory where she studied historical and modern performing arts with Professor Alexei Lyubimov and later improved her skills as a post-graduate student of Hochschule fur Musik in Cologne. Having Russian music of the 20th and 21st centuries in her special focus of attention, she has recorded complete piano pieces by Alexander Mosolov and Nikolai Roslavets. Olga Andryushchenko considers her first Melodiya album a continuation of her work on domestic post-war avant-garde. The selection of works on the album is quite uncommon. The majority of the programme is made of works of the avant-garde classics created in the very beginning of their artistic careers in homage to neoclassicism - Sofia Gubaidulina's Chaconne, Arvo Pärt's Partita and Valentin Silvestrov's Sonata No. 1. In it's own way, each of the pieces gives an idea of the composers' artistic essence. The other part is dedicated to music created during another period of existence of this school - the late 1980s and early 1990s - Galina Ustvoslkaya's Sonata No. 6 and Alfred Schnittke's Sonata No. 3. The air of freedom inspired by perestroika had a significant impact on the development of avant-garde, the status of which transformed from semi-legal to the leading direction of late-Soviet musical art. Edison Denisov's 3 Preludes of 1994, one of the master's last pieces, is a peculiar romantic afterword to the programme.

1: Chaconne
2: No. 1
3: No. 2
4: No. 3
5: I. Moderato, Con Molta Attenzione
6: II. Andantino
7: Piano Sonata No. 6
8: Für Alina
9: I. Toccatina
10: II. Fughetta
11: III. Larghetto
12: IV. Ostinato
13: I. Lento
14: II. Allegro
15: III. Lento
16: IV. Allegro

Composer: Alfred Schnittke, Arvo Pärt, Edison Denisov, Sofia Gubaidulina, Galina Ustvolskaya, Valentin Silvestrov

Number of Discs: 1

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