Valery Gavrilin - Valery Gavrilin: The Russian Notebook

Valery Gavrilin was one of the most colourful and significant Russian composers of the second half of the 20th century. He was only 25 when he composed 'The Russian Notebook', a poem of love and death crafted in a new musical language that doesn't employ folk melodies but does use folkloric texts, and with a virtuosic vocal part. These stylised tunes are combined with rich melodies to form a haunting cycle heard here in a 2018 orchestration. The ten numbers from the ballet 'Anyuta' are lively, melodious and touchingly beautiful.

1) Cranberry O'er the River - Mila Shkirtil/St. Petersburg Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra ()
2) Lament - Mila Shkirtil/St. Petersburg Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra ()
3) Lament - Mila Shkirtil/St. Petersburg Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra ()
4) Winter - Mila Shkirtil/St. Petersburg Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra ()
5) Sowing Flowers - Mila Shkirtil/St. Petersburg Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra ()
6) It All Started - Mila Shkirtil/St. Petersburg Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra ()
7) Laments - Mila Shkirtil/St. Petersburg Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra ()
8) In the Loveliest Month O' May - Mila Shkirtil/St. Petersburg Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra ()
9) Grand Waltz - St. Petersburg Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra ()
10) Department - St. Petersburg Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra ()
11) Organ-grinder - St. Petersburg Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra ()
12) Adagio - St. Petersburg Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra ()
13) In the Bedroom - St. Petersburg Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra ()
14) Quadrille - St. Petersburg Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra ()
15) Gypsies Dance - St. Petersburg Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra ()
16) His Excellency - St. Petersburg Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra ()
17) Tarantella - St. Petersburg Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra ()
18) Postlude - St. Petersburg Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra ()