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Violinist Yevgeny Kutik presents a collection of Russian rarities, "Music from the Suitcase". The pieces are selected from sheet music brought over to the USA when his family fled the Soviet Union in 1990.
Included are rarely performed short works for violin and piano by prominent composers like Prokofiev, Stravinsky and Khachaturian, and gems by Andrei Eshpai and Georgy Sviridov, composers whose reputations never quite penetrated the Iron Curtain. Yevgeny is accompanied on the CD by pianist Timothy Bozarth.
Yevgeny says: "As I continued to explore this music, they began to organize themselves into a distinct array of moods and themes, suffused with the character of Russian folklore, fantasy, and poetry… The pieces on this album carry with them a simplicity and directness, and with this immediacy, a striking beauty... It reminds me of what we went through and how far we have come."
This new recording also includes the haunting "Oyfn Pripetchik", a Yiddish song by M. M. Warshawsky that Mr. Kutik encountered during a trip to Poland during which he visited Auschwitz and other sites of Nazi atrocities.
Catalog: MAR 453
Available on Amazon
Track Listing
Andrei Eshpai (b. 1925) – Rhapsody "Hungarian Tunes"
1. I Lento Sostenuto
2. II Allegro non troppo
3. III Andante (Listen)
4. IV Allegro Vivace
5. V Moderato
6. VI Allegro moderato con grazia
7. VII Vivo
8. Sergei Prokofiev (1891-1951) (arr. G. Fikhtengolts) Waltz from Cinderella
9. Anton Rubinstein (1829-94) (arr. H. Wieniawski)
Romance in E flat Major, Op. 44, No. 1
Igor Stravinsky (1882-1971) – Divertimento, from The Fairy’s Kiss
(transcription by Stravinsky and Samuel Dushkin from Le Baiser de la Fée)
10. Sinfonia
11. Danses Suisses
12. Scherzo
13. Pas de deux: Adagio
14. Variation
15. Coda
16. Aram Khachaturian (1903-1978) - Nocturne from the Masquerade Suite
17. Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky (1840-1893) - (arr. M. Goldstein)
Russian Dance from Swan Lake
Georgy Sviridov (1915-1998) (arr. K. Fortunatov) from Children’s Album
18. Sad Song
19. Musical Moment
Dmitry Shostakovich (1906-1975) (arr. D. Tziganov) - Four Preludes, Op. 34, No. 10
20. 1 Moderato non troppo
21. 2 Allegretto
22. 3 Andantino
23. 4 Allegretto
24. Oyfn Pripetchik – transcription for violin by Brian Buch
after the song by M.M. Warshawsky (1848–1907)
Total playing time: 71:55
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