Reception

Track listing

All compositions by Mikhail Alperin except as indicated

1. "Morning" - 6:39
2. "Psalm No. 1" - 7:34
3. "Ironical Evening" - 8:06
4. "Alone" - 4:42
5. "Afternoon" - 9:22
6. "Psalm No. 2" - 6:59
7. "North Story" - 5:27
8. "Etude" - 6:35
9. "Kristi-Blodsdråper (Fucsia)" (Harald Sæverud
   Harald Sæverud
   Harald Sigurd Johan Sæverud was a Norwegian composer. He is most known for his music to Henrik Ibsen's Peer Gynt, Rondo Amoroso, and the Ballad of Revolt . Sæverud wrote nine symphonies, and a large number of pieces for solo piano...
   
   ) - 4:35
   • Recorded at Rainbow Studio in Oslo, Norway in September 1995.

Personnel

• Mikhail Alperin
  Mikhail Alperin
  Mikhail "Misha" Alperin is a Ukrainian jazz musician.Alperin was born in Kamenez Podolsky, Ukraine and grew up in Moldavia, where he was classically trained. In 1980, he formed one of the first Moldavian jazz ensembles. He moved to Moscow in the 1980s and founded the Moscow Art Trio there with...
  
   — piano
  Piano
  The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...
  
  
• Arkady Shilkloper — French horn, fluegelhorn
• Tore Brunborg — tenor saxophone
  Tenor saxophone
  The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor, with the alto, are the two most common types of saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B, and written as a transposing instrument in the treble...
  
  
• Terje Gewelt
  Terje Gewelt
  Terje Gewelt is a Norwegian jazz bassist.He grew up in Larvik, a small town on the southeastern coast. He started playing guitar at the age of 10, switched to electric bass at 14 and added acoustic bass at 17....
  
   — double bass
  Double bass
  The double bass, also called the string bass, upright bass, standup bass or contrabass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra, with strings usually tuned to E1, A1, D2 and G2...
  
  
• Jon Christensen
  Jon Christensen
  Jon Christensen is a Norwegian jazz percussionist.In the late 1960s he played alongside Jan Garbarek on several recordings by the composer George Russell....
  
   — drums
  Drum kit
  A drum kit is a collection of drums, cymbals and often other percussion instruments, such as cowbells, wood blocks, triangles, chimes, or tambourines, arranged for convenient playing by a single person ....