Chaikin N. Children's Album for bayan (accordion)

The Compozitor Publishing House • Sankt Petersburg represents the «Children's Album for Bayan (Accordion)» by the distinguished Russian composer Nikolai Chaikin. 

The edition is fulfilled by Yuri Likhachyov, disciple of Nikolai Chaikin, Honoured Art Worker of Russia, director of the St Petersburg V. V.Andreyev Children Music School, author of the original educational programme. 

The «Children's Album» by N. Chaikin is the first composition of such a kind through the whole history of accordion (bayan) music literature. The Album embraces 40 dulcet pieces of diverse nature. It was in 1969, when Chaikin's Album started enjoying its popularity,'having been published for the first time. Since that it has been impressing musical pedagogical world by doubtless achievements in both art and education. Therefore the Album got its second edition in 1983.

The present edition was implied for to attract young accordionists to the unique repertoire, fortunately occurred to be larger than life.

Contents:

Call-up
Echo
Little Piece
Little Canon
Getting on the March
Step by Step
Tune
Good Humour
Little Song
Pioneer Bugle
Serenade
Polka
Sorrowful Meditation
Children's Numbering
Ukrainian Polka
Santa Claus and Little Hare
New-Year Round Dance
Snow Maiden's Dance
Evening Promenade
Lullaby
Dance
Romance
Waltz
Russian Dance
Drummer and Trumpeter
Bosom Waltz
Graceful Dance
Mazurka
On the Steamship
Sailors' Dance
March-Song
«Matryoshka» Dolls
Chastushka
Riding Donkey
Incantation
On the Meadow
Little Pioneer Polka
Russian Dance
Little Rondo
Tale (Fugue-fantasy)