Stuchinskaya I. Music of the 20ieth century. VoI. 2. For Two Pianos

This is the symphony music of the 20th century to “make heaven drowsy with the harmony” (as Shakespeare once said about love in his Love's Labour' s Lost.)

It looks mostly expedient to instill symphony music arrangements to the piano four hands ensemble repertoire. Let's remember fashionable transcriptions of the “Rite of Spring” by Stravinsky, or Prokofiev's suites from his ballets.

The represented collection is not distinct for any innovation; however, executants are welcome to get in touch with favourite hits, such as the romance by D. Shostakovich to the film “Gad-fly”, or rarely performed excerpts from D. Kabalevsky's “Requiem”.

It would be fine and easy to play fragments from the symphony engravings “Don Quixote” by Kara Karayev, so as the large-scaled piece from the ballet “Yaroslavna” by B. Tishchenko.

Thus the proposed collection is worth to be used at piano lessons, so as in concert and home practice.

Contents:

D. Shostakovich. ROMANCE. From the music to the film “Gad-fly” (Music text example)
D. Shostakovich. WALTZ. From the music to the film “Michurin”
D. Kabalevsky. INTRODUCTION (Hostility and Love). From musical sketches to the tragedy “Romeo and Juliet” by W. Shakespeare
D. Kabalevsky. LYRICAL DANCE (Romeo and Juliet Meet). From musical sketches to the tragedy “Romeo and Juliet” by W. Shakespeare
D. Kabalevsky. TO THE MEMORY OF THE DEAD. Introduction from the third movement of the “Requiem”
K. Karayev. TRAVELLING. From the Symphonic Engravings “Don Quixote”
K. Karayev. PAVAN. From the Symphonic Engravings “Don Quixote”
K. Karayev. DEATH OF DON QUIXOTE. From the Symphonic Engravings “Don Quixote” (Music text example)
B. Tishchenko. FIRST BATTLE WITH POLOVETS SOLDIERS. From the ballet “Yaroslavna”