Artist: Viacheslav Shelepov
Album: Glinka: Piano Music
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 2023
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 88,2 kHz
Duration: 01:04:06
Total Tracks: 12
Total Size: 1004 MB

Tracklist:

1-01. Viacheslav Shelepov – Variations on the Song “Nightingale” by A. Alyabyev, IMG 50 (06:57)
1-02. Viacheslav Shelepov – Nocturne, IMG 26 (04:58)
1-03. Viacheslav Shelepov – Valse in E-Flat Major (02:42)
1-04. Viacheslav Shelepov – Mazurka in F in F Major, IMG 58 (02:55)
1-05. Viacheslav Shelepov – Reminiscence of a Mazurka (03:56)
1-06. Viacheslav Shelepov – The Separation, IMG 34 (04:04)
1-07. Viacheslav Shelepov – Variations on a Scottish Theme, IMG 45 (07:04)
1-08. Viacheslav Shelepov – Variations on the Russian Song “Among the Gentle Valleys”, IMG 44 (02:50)
1-09. Viacheslav Shelepov – Prayer, IMG 30 (08:21)
1-10. Viacheslav Shelepov – Fugue in D Major, IMG 13 (02:54)
1-11. Viacheslav Shelepov – Barcarolle in G Major, IMG 65 (05:12)
1-12. Viacheslav Shelepov – Variations on a Theme from the Opera “I Capuleti ed i Montecchi” by V. Bellini, IMG 49 (12:07)

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Variations and salon miniatures by the father of the classical tradition in Russia. Mikhail Glinka’s piano works lie in the shadow of his operas, romances and orchestral music but they share the distinctive voice, the brilliance and Franco-Russian accent of foundational pieces in the Russian classical tradition such as Ruslan and Ludmila. The works recorded here date from the 1820s to the 1840s, when there was no regular concert life or musical education in Russia and when the salon and the opera still formed the centres of musical life. Glinka models his keyboard writing accordingly on the forms immortalised by Chopin such as the waltz, nocturne and mazurka, and the variations on songs, popular Italian opera melodies. Viacheslav Shelepov opens this beautifully curated album with a delicious set of variations on Alyabyev’s song The Nightingale, cast in a nostalgic E minor.