Murad Kazhlayev, a composer and conductor, was born in Baku, Russia in 1931. He graduated from the Baku State Conservatory. There he studied...
Please see the earlier posting: Prelude, No. 1 in C for more information about Kazhlayev's interesting bio.
Below if a list of books in chronological order compiled from my own collection pertaining to piano playing and how to improve one’s pianism. I...
Viktor Kosenko (1896-1938) was a Ukrainian composer, but also a virtuoso pianist and piano pedagogue. In his earlier years his principal...
Viktor Stephanovych Kosenko (1896-1938) was a Ukrainian composer, but also a virtuoso pianist and piano pedagogue. In his earlier years his...
J. S. Bach, WTC Vol. 1 Prelude & Fugue No. 2 in Cm (the prelude is in this post, and the fugue in a companion post.) This is my first Bach...
Hi Everyone, Re: The problem with music updloads going to Creative MediaSource 5 without a way to get the files out of there. Well, a desperate...
FYI, here is a list of the concert pianists who have passed on during 2014 and 2015: Here are pianists who passed in 2014 and 2015 to date:...
Here is a most fervent late romantic piece by Leopold Godowsky titled Poem No. 1, “Devotion” and marked andante cantabile, although I choose to...
I’ve posted here another unpublished (although copyrighted) character piece composed by Sergei Bortkiewicz. The title is “A Dream”, drawn from his...
Born in Kharkov, Ukraine in 1877, Sergei Bortkiewicz studied with Liadov and Arek at the Imperial Conservatory in St. Petersburg and in Leipzig...
“Widmung”, the opening composition of Ernst von Dohnanyi’s Winterreigen, was published in 1905. The composer himself premiered Winterreigen in...
Hi, I'm getting ready to replace my aging Korg MR-1000 recorder. Having done some research, I'm now looking at a couple of possibilities: the...
Dohnanyi, “Postludium”, Op. 13, No. 10 from Winterreigen. I’ve played numerous preludes, so I decided to play a postlude. This music of Ernst...
Scriabin’s Prelude, Op.16, No. 1, (January 1894), falls within his early period influenced by Chopin’s style. Marked andante, the usual rhythmic...
Rachmaninov composed his Prelude, Op. 32, No. 9 in A on August 26, 1910. It is in ternary form. To say that this is a thick-textured piece would...
The 6th Nocturne of Faure is a large work in ternary form (11 pages in the Hamelle edition). There are also some hints of Scriabin in this music....
Last evening I was poking through some of my older recordings and came across my rendition of the Faure's 6th Barcarolle. Although the 5th...
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