Russian composer Anatol Lyadov (or Liadov), contemporary with and much admired by the members of the Mighty Handful, composed both more rarely (he was busy teaching at the St. Petersburg Conservatory for much of his career) and in smaller forms than his contemporaries, and he has therefore been unjustly neglected. Russian pianist Olga Solovieva here embarks on a complete recording of Lyadov's piano music, and the results are well worth the listener's time, for those interested in either a single disc or the entire series. ...
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Russian composer Anatol Lyadov (or Liadov), contemporary with and much admired by the members of the Mighty Handful, composed both more rarely (he was busy teaching at the St. Petersburg Conservatory for much of his career) and in smaller forms than his contemporaries, and he has therefore been unjustly neglected. Russian pianist Olga Solovieva here embarks on a complete recording of Lyadov's piano music, and the results are well worth the listener's time, for those interested in either a single disc or the entire series. This release covers the first part of Lyadov's career, through the Trois Morceaux, Op. 11, of 1885. Up to that point, Lyadov was almost untouched by the nationalist impulse, and even in those three pieces Russian characteristics are a tinge rather than an impetus to structural rethinking. These pieces are miniatures, bagatelles, somewhat in the Schumann mode but with a compression that's all Lyadov's own. Most interesting are the Biryulki, Op. 2, composed in 1876 just as Lyadov was...
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