When Prof. Karl Laux, in his day one of the German Democratic Republic's most celebrated musicologists, was working on his book on music in Russia and the Soviet Union, he consigned a dozen or so assorted personalities to near-oblivion on a mere eight-and-a-half pages. One of these is Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ippolitov-Ivanov, who in 1922 was one of the first in the United Soviet Republics to be awarded the title of "people's artist" and who had surely deserved better if only on account of his diversified oeuvre than an extended footnote - not to mention the achievements with which he had stamped his character upon Russian and Soviet culture as ethnographer and conductor, as teacher and organizer.

Tracklist:

Caucasian Sketches, Suite No. 1, Op. 10 (Transcr. For 2 Pianos): I. In A Mountain Pass
Caucasian Sketches, Suite No. 1, Op. 10 (Transcr. For 2 Pianos): II. In A Village
Caucasian Sketches, Suite No. 1, Op. 10 (Transcr. For 2 Pianos): III. In A Mosque
Caucasian Sketches, Suite No. 1, Op. 10 (Transcr. For 2 Pianos): IV. Procession Of The Sardar
Armenian Rhapsody On National Themes, Op. 48 (Transcr. For 2 Pianos)
Ruth, Op. 6: Prologue (Transcr. For 2 Pianos)
Turkic March, Op. 55 (Transcr. For 2 Pianos)
Caucasian Sketches, Suite No. 2, Op. 42 "Iveria" (Transcr. For 2 Pianos): I. Introduction. Lamentation Of Princess Ket
Caucasian Sketches, Suite No. 2, Op. 42 "Iveria" (Transcr. For 2 Pianos): II. Berceuse
Caucasian Sketches, Suite No. 2, Op. 42 "Iveria" (Transcr. For 2 Pianos): III. Lezghinka
Caucasian Sketches, Suite No. 2, Op. 42 "Iveria" (Transcr. For 2 Pianos): IV. Georgian March

UPC: 881488190397
Label: Profil - G Haenssler
Release Date: 11.8.19
Format: CD

Ippolitov-Ivanov / Zagarinskiy - Piano Transcriptions (CD)