Rimma Bobritskaïa - Russian Piano Miniatures for Children (2011)

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Title: Russian Piano Miniatures for Children
Year Of Release: 2011
Label: Brilliant Classics
Genre: Classical
Quality: FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 59:54
Total Size: 195 Mb
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Tracklist:

1. A Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 1, Prière du Matin 1:15
2. A Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 2, Matin d'Hiver 1:05
3. A Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 3, Jouons à dada! 0:39
4. A Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 4, Maman 0:57
5. A Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 5, Marche des Soldats de bois 0:52
6. A Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 6, La Poupée malade 1:47
7. A Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 7, Enterrement de la Poupée 1:41
8. A Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 8, Valse 1:06
9. A Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 9, La nouvelle Poupée 0:28
10. A Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 10, Mazurka 1:07
11. A Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 11, Chanson russe 0:27
12. A Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 12, La paysan joue de l'Harmonica 0:44
13. A Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 13, Kamarinskaïa 0:29
14. A Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 14, Polka 1:14
15. A Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 15, Chanson italienne 0:59
16. A Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 16, Ancienne chanson française 1:13
17. A Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 17, Chanson allemande 0:56
18. A Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 18, Chanson napolitaine 1:04
19. A Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 19, Conte de la Nourrice 0:44
20. A Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 20, Baba-Yaga 0:38
21. A Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 21, Rêve délicieux 2:14
22. A Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 22, Chant de l'alouette 0:53
23. A Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 23, Chanson de joueur d'Orgue de Barbarie 1:54
24. A Children's Album, Op. 39: No. 24, A l'eglise 0:52
25. Music for Children, Op. 65: No. 1, Le Matin 1:54
26. Music for Children, Op. 65: No. 2, Promenade 0:52
27. Music for Children, Op. 65: No. 3, Historiette 2:13
28. Music for Children, Op. 65: No. 4, Tarentelle 0:56
29. Music for Children, Op. 65: No. 5, Repentir 1:52
30. Music for Children, Op. 65: No. 6, Valse 1:09
31. Music for Children, Op. 65: No. 7, Cortège des Sauterelles 1:02
32. Music for Children, Op. 65: No. 8, La pluie et l'Arc-en-ciel 1:16
33. Music for Children, Op. 65: No. 9, Attrape-qui-peut 0:56
34. Music for Children, Op. 65: No. 10, Marche 1:27
35. Music for Children, Op. 65: No. 11, Les Oir 2:20
36. Music for Children, Op. 65: No. 12, Sur les Prés la lune se promène 1:42
37. Five Pieces for Children: No. 1, Berceuse 3:05
38. Five Pieces for Children: No. 2, Danse 0:38
39. Five Pieces for Children: No. 3, Contredanse 2:16
40. Five Pieces for Children: No. 4, Danse espagnole 2:05
41. Five Pieces for Children: No. 5, Nocturne 2:40
42. A Child's Excercise Book, Op. 69: No. 1, Marche 0:39
43. A Child's Excercise Book, Op. 69: No. 2, Valse 0:40
44. A Child's Excercise Book, Op. 69: No. 3, L'ours 0:42
45. A Child's Excercise Book, Op. 69: No. 4, Histoire gaie 0:32
46. A Child's Excercise Book, Op. 69: No. 5, Histoire triste 1:33
47. A Child's Excercise Book, Op. 69: No. 6, La Poupée mécanique 0:59
48. A Child's Excercise Book, Op. 69: No. 7, L'Anniversaire 1:08

Performers:
Rimma Bobritskaïa (piano)

It was Robert Schumann’s Kinderszenen and Album fur die Jugend that inspired Tchaikovsky to start composition on his Children’s Album in 1878. He dedicated the set to his nephew Vladimir Davidoff (Bobik) who was 7 years old.‘For a long time I have been saying to myself that it would be a good thing to contribute, within the limits of my powers, to the enrichment of the piano literature for children, which is rather poor. I would like to compose a series of very easy little pieces with attractive titles like Schumann did’ he wrote to his patron Mme von Meck. In less than a week of writing these words he had completed the 24 pieces of his Children’s Album. Like Schumann’s works, there is nothing childlike about the music, rather it displays an adult mind totally understanding of a child’s view of the world, together with a tender nostalgia. Tchaikovsky’s Op.39 proved so popular that later Russian composers also composed works for children. In the Soviet period Prokofiev composed his Music for Children (1935), wonderfully fresh music far removed from dry didactic texts most children had for piano study. In 1947 Shostakovich composed his Children’s Pieces for his daughter Galina. Rather more closely related to traditional teaching pieces that Prokofiev’s Music for Children, they nonetheless instil rather charmingly the academic notion of a happy ‘major’ and a sad ‘minor’ by inverting it in A Merry Story in E minor, and a Sad Story in G major.