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GD 340 STUART-IVANOV DUO. NIKOLAI ROSLAVETS (1881-1944) Short Works for Violin and Piano

Issued: 2008
Style: Classical Music
Company: Gega New GD 340

GD 340 STUART-IVANOV DUO. NIKOLAI ROSLAVETS (1881-1944). Short Works for Violin and Piano
Pianist Svetozar Ivanov has always surprised the listener with the interesting programs that he records. He definitely has an affinity for music of the 20th century and the end of the 19th century. In his latest (third) album Svetozar Ivanov concentrates again on 20th century music. Together with the violinist Carolyn Stuart they present the composer Nikolai Roslavets, who is almost unknown and very rarely performed. In the 20s of the last century, however, Roslavets was among the most famous Russian authors. He was president of the prestigious Association of Contemporary Music, a member of the first Soviet Composers’ Union, chief editor of the journal Muzykalnaya Kultura (Musical Culture), and a highly regarded composer and teacher.
After Josef Stalin rose to power, the Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians began its attacks on the Association of Contemporary Music, and on experimental artists. Roslavets was pronounced “decadent and formalist”, an “enemy of the people” and by the end of the decade was stripped of his prestigious positions. Many of his works were lost, stolen, or destroyed.

GD 340 STUART-IVANOV DUO
NIKOLAI ROSLAVETS (1881-1944)
Short Works for Violin and Piano
Carolyn Stuart – violin
Svetozar Ivanov – piano

[1] Morgenstimmung (1907)      2’30’’
[2] Rêverie (1908)                     4’28’’
[3] Élégie (1908)                      4’49’’
Three Poems (1909/1910)
[4] Poème douleureux               1’17’’
[5] Poème lyrique                      1’07’’
[6] Poème                                 1’43’’
Three Dances (1923)
[7] Waltz                                  4’42’’
[8] Nocturne                             2’01’’
[9] Mazurka                            2’38’’
[10] Poème romantique (1929) 4’43’’
[11] Nocturne (1935)                3’13’’
[12] Legend (1941)                   8’34’’
From 24 Preludes (1941-42)
[13] No. 4 in E Minor              2’13’’
[14] No. 9 in E Major               1’01’’
[15] No. 11 in B Major             1’42’’
[16] No. 12 in G sharp Minor    1’54’’
[17] No. 17 in A flat Major        1’55’’
[18] No. 20 in C Minor            1’45’’
[19] No. 24 in D Minor             3’00’’