Kornakov Yu. Concert Suite from the Ballet “Lord of Jungles”. For two pianos

When Yuri Kornakov addressed the “Jungle Book”, he was already a venerable author, has graduated from the Novosibirsk Conservatory in two specialties — piano and composition; has been living and working in Leningrad, has become the author of a concert for piano with orchestra, several piano sonatas and sonatinas, vocal cycles and many other musical works.

The composer saw in the story of Mowgli not just a fairy tale, adapted for secondary school aged children, but a myth opening a new “cultural route”. As the myths about Argonauts, Prometheus, Orpheus and Eurydice directed the way to the thousand-years-old European culture, in such a way the history of Mowgli, written by Bombay-born Englishman Rudyard Kipling and embodied in music by Russian composer Yuri Kornakov, who was born in Ulan-Ude, has become one of many threads connecting Eastern and Western cultures, tracing the way to their spiritual unity.

Contents:

V. Marina. Preface
I. AWAKENING IN THE JUNGLE
II. IN THE TEMPLE
III. HUNTING IN THE JUNGLE. DANCE WITH THE BELL IN THE VILLAGE
IV. CONFUSION AND APPEAL TO LIFE