Russia before the Revolution – a land of colourful contrasts – of elegant mansions, snowy lamp-lit boulevards, jingling sleigh-bells and brilliant Oriental minarets – and of endless, empty steppes stretching away to the east. A land where peasants sang as they tilled the soil, fiercely preserving their natural roots and culture. A land whose music is built on their wistful folksongs and wildly uninhibited national dances – from traditional song sung by the Volga River boatmen, to the glorious tunes of Borodin, Kalinnikov and Rubinstein; Mussorgsky’s musical tour of an art-gallery. Rimsky-Korsakov’s Oriental fantasies, and the inexhaustible melodies of Russia’s greatest composer, Tchailovsky. Here you’ll fins all the most famous themes from his world-famous ballets – Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty and Nutcracker, concertos and symphonies: side-by-side with Rachmaninov’s great themes from his Second Piano Concerto, Prokofiev’s whimsical children’s fantasy Peter and the Wolf, and the famous ‘Onedin Line’ theme from Khachaturian’s ballet Spartacus. A great musical heritage is here!
- For
- Piano
- Level
- Easy
- Publisher
- Faber Music
- Pages
- 40
Contents
Melody in F (Rubinstein)
Nocturne from String Quartet No. 2 (Borodin)
Polovtsian Dance (Prince Igor) (Borodin)
Overture (Ruslan and Lyudmila) (Glinka)
Pictures at an Exhibition (Mussorgsky)
Waltz (The Sleeping Beauty) (Tchaikovsky)
Waltz of the Flowers (The Nutcracker) Dance of the Reed Pipes (The Nutcracker) (Tchaikovsky)
Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy (The Nutcracker) (Tchaikovsky)
Dance of the little Swans (Swan Lake) (Tchaikovsky)
Theme from Swan Lake (Tchaikovsky)
Theme from Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky)
Slow Movement from Piano Concerto No. 1 (Tchaikovsky)
Slow Movement from Symphony No. 4 (Tchaikovsky)
Theme from Symphony No. 5 (Tchaikovsky)
Theme from Symphony No. 6 (Pathetique) (Tchaikovsky)
Waltz from Serenade for Strings (Tchaikovsky)
Theme from Romeo and Juliet (Tchaikovsky)
Canzonetta from Violin Concerto (Tchaikovsky)
A l'eglise (Tchaikovsky)
2 themes from 1812 Overture (Tchaikovsky)
Theme from Sheherazade (Rimsky-Korsakov)
Theme from Spanish Caprice (Rimsky-Korsakov)
Theme from Symphony No. 1 (Kalinnikov)
Slow movement from Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rakhmaninov)
Theme from Spartacus (Khachaturian)
Theme from Peter and the Wolf (Prokofiev)