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I agree - this is one of most amazing works and should rank up there with his PCs 2 & 3, C# Prelude, etc.  And if you like this, you should also check out his Op.7 Symphonic Poem "The Cliff" (sometimes also translated as "The Rock" or "The Crag" ("Utyos", or "Утёс" anyway in Russian). Has a thrilling recurring theme. 

His All-Night Vigil (Op.37) and Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (Op.31) are also regarded as masterpieces here in Russia.

I uploaded Isaak Dunaevsky's operetta "Free Wind" ("Vol'ny Veter" in Russian) in the downloads section  -  hope you enjoy! 

I uploaded Isaak Dunaevsky's operetta "Free Wind" ("Vol'ny Veter" in Russian) in the downloads section  -  hope you enjoy! 

Isaak Dunaevsky - 1900-1955 (can I say it would really help if users also put the dates of composers when they put material up here - it helps one to filter what one is likely to enjoy/not enjoy!)

I am also grateful for this thread as Miaskovsky is for me too one of the composers that I just "don't get". And like you I have always assumed that it was because I was listening to the wrong stuff, first, so I am also looking forward to getting hold of his Symphony 21.

I also think this opens up a whole new topic (maybe needs a new thread?!):  who are people's "sung" composers who remain unsung on a personal level - or to put it another way, who are famous composers, appreciated around the world, that for some reason you just "don't get"? And what pieces do people recommend as a way in to their music?  For me this would include: Mahler, Stravinsky, Glazunov (I just find him incredibly bland...) - yet they come from a period of music that I most love.

Thanks for this music.  Do you know the performing artists for the Skulte piece called "Waves"?

You can buy music by these and other Georgian composers from this site:
http://www.classical-music-cd.me4u.biz/   (and Georgian church music from http://www.church-music-cd.me4u.biz/ )

The guy who manages it is called Temur, based in Tbilisi.  I have ordered several things from him in the past and he is reliable. Email address is support@me4u.biz .  He also directed me as follows:

"By the way, you can listen to some samples (not of good quality to  avoid Copyright issues) from here:
http://www.georgian-music.com/free_music/folk.php
http://www.georgian-music.com/free_music/classic.php
http://www.georgian-music.com/free_music/sacred.php 
There were a few customers who purchased the whole collection of classical music (just all disks) in bulk and, of course, I provided them with sufficient discount in that case and add gifts also."

I came across this shop through my contacts here in Moscow - "Zvukovoi Bar'er" (which means Sound Barrier in Russian) - www.sound-barrier.ru - it's an Aladdin's Cave of vinyl LPs, thousands and thousands of them, classical and other. I found some Unsungs there (Napravnik, Dunaevsky, Cui,...). 

They have an English-language version of the site, and have now apparently catalogued all their records, so you can search for your favourite Unsung composers and artists. 

There is a piano concerto in G minor (which has been recorded) (her op.33 of 1913) - apparently her discography, though mostly limited to small labels indeed, is larger than I realize. String quartet in C op58 (1922) on Croatia Records CD from 2003, a 4 CD FrauenMusikForum Schweiz set from 2002 with the piano quintet, piano concerto, cello sonata op.35, songs and some piano works; 2nd violin (viola? don't understand the words "violinu i glasovir" ) sonata op.43 (1917) on another Croatia Records CD; another recording with a violin sonata in D major op.26;   probably others...

Are there any Croatian (or Serbian...) speakers on here who can identify where on the website of Croatian Records is this 4 CD set with her piano concerto?  www.crorec.hr ...

PS - "glasovir" means piano.

Does anyone else have any follow up on this?  I love 19th century Russian composers so would be very keen to know! 

see my string on Eugen Doga - he fits perfectly into this mould.

A very random request here - but does anyone know of this piece and if it has ever been recorded?  There are lots of references to the sheet music across the internet - but I have that already as it was a piece I had to play (MANY years ago) at school in preparation for (I think) grade 5 double bass, and I have been humming it ever since, as well as looking in vain on the internet (including youtube) for any recordings.  A simple piece but very beautiful.

A long shot I know...

Since you posted a concerto for trumpet. I thought perhaps you might want this one.
http://www.mediafire.com/?efioycqnsnm6ldi

Kryukov Concerto Poem for Trumpet and Orchestra.
Information inside a pdf file.

Hi Fyrexia - do you know if this is the same Kryukov who wrote film scores to Soviet movies - most notably one of the scores that is used for the 1925 Eisenstein classic "Battleship Potemkin"? (and by the way - would you have a recording of that?  I recorded it 18 years from video player to cassette player so of course the quality is terrible!). According to Wikipedia, Kryukov wrote his soundtrack in 1950 (the original score was by Edmund Meisel, I don't like it). Are there any other recordings of Kryukov music or film-music?

Tchaikovsky wrote an opera "Undine" (or Undina).  According to Wikipedia (source of ALL knowledge...!), FIVE pieces from it survive (Tchaikovsky destroyed the rest).  These are:

1.Introduction
2.Aria: "Waterfall, my uncle, streamlet, my brother" (Undina)
3.Chorus: "Help, help! Our stream is raging"
4.Duet: "O happiness, O blessed moment" (Undina, Huldbrand)
5.Chorus: "O hours of death" (soloists, chorus)
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undina_(Tchaikovsky))

However, on my VOXBOX recording there are only 4 pieces:
1. Introduction
2. Undine's Aria
3. Undine and Huldbrand's Duet
4. Finale of Act I

So, obviously, my question is - does anyone know if the missing piece has been recorded, or know where I can get it?! Has it even been recorded?

I studied a one page easy piano piece by Khrennikov,  a Berceuse. Beautiful little piece. Then i read about Khrennikpv s polotical trajectory and  i have to say that was it for me with this composer ... But i m intrigued now.

Read the Economist's obituary to Khrennikon of August 2007 - http://www.economist.com/node/9721710  - the magazine is decidedly anti all things Soviet, but their obituary to him is surprisingly sympathetic.  One interesting passage - "he attended Prokofiev's funeral in 1953 and helped his first wife when she came out of prison. Though he publicly disliked the avant-garde music of Alfred Schnittke, he was among the first to help Schnittke when he suffered a stroke in 1985. And he was instrumental in inviting Igor Stravinsky to Russia in 1962. He was part of a ruthless system; but he did not deliver up Jewish composers to Stalin's goons, and did not write negative references when the party demanded them. (Instead, he would say that the composer had been warned of the dangers of modernism, as if the lesson was already safely learned.) None of the composers he had charge of was killed; very few were arrested. Many, however, reported on him—for being influenced by his Jewish wife, Klara Vaks, and for sheltering Jews. "

It is certainly true that he lived in very difficult times.  Probably in order to be able to some good (described above), he had to be seen to be playing the game and upholding the system. It's not easy to sit in judgment.

As another remark, we can have little idea of the character traits of long-dead composers, but that doesn't stop us appreciating and loving their music!  Who is to know if Mozart wasn't incredibly annoying, Handel a glutton, Tchaikovsky too morose to tolerate, etc etc?!  Also – many wrote music to glorify their patrons who were often politically powerful figures in regimes that today we would disapprove of.

I suggest a lot of soviet composers (which there is a lot on my channel).
Tikhon Khrennikov - Piano Concerto no.1 and 2, 3 Symphonies and Cello Concerto no.2



Some to mention..

Tony

Tony- do you know of a recording (and availability) of Khrennikov's Cello Concerto No.2?