Knaifel A. Sketches in Petrograd. For piano (Coll. Works)

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Alexander Knaifel (born 1943) is one of the most eminent modern composers. A “Petersburger by nationality”, he was educated at the Special Musical School of the Leningrad Conservatory (1950–1961), the Moscow (1961–1963) and Leningrad (1963–1967) Conservatories. He lists Mstislav Rostropovich, the poet Sergei Vakulenko and the Surozh metropolitan Antonii amongst his teachers.

The composer explains: “I tried to sense childhood in the eluding-enticing, improbable and tragic era of Petrograd (1914–1924) in a chain of brief sketches for the handful of surviving musicians”. Three such sketches from the phantasmagoria of the orchestra of twelve  Petrograd Sparrows (1967) in transposition for piano make up this micro-cycle.