Tolstoy s waltz lera auerbach biography

Lera auerbach piano works!

Born in the Russian city of Chelyabinsk on the border of Siberia, Russian-American composer, concert pianist, poet and visual artist Lera.

TOLSTOY’S WALTZ

Taken strictly on musical terms, this assortment of Romantic-era music written by amateur composers ranges in quality from adequate to gifted. The twist is that they are all Russians who made international reputations in literary and artistic fields other than music.

Thus, the title track, a slender but charming Waltz in F major, is by the great novelist Lev (Leo) Tolstoy, the only extant music by the author of War and Peace. His latter-day colleague, Boris Pasternak (Doctor Zhivago), contributes the meatiest course on this menu–a 13-minute, one-movement piano sonata and two piano preludes.

Lera auerbach music

Pianist Lera Auerbach gives us a highly listenable, enlightening, and well-played program.

Lera auerbach piano works

A renaissance artist for modern times, Lera Auerbach is a widely recognised conductor, pianist and composer.

The prolific composer, concert pianist, and conductor has carved out a remarkable niche in the 21st-century classical music scene.

Pasternak, described in the program notes as an admirer of Alexander Scriabin, set out to be a composer and studied for six years. Both the good technical training and the strong influence of Scriabin are obvious in this music, along with considerable musical imagination.

Vasily Dmitrievich Polenov was a painter whose work has similarities to French impressionism.