Vadim Borisovsky
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Vadim Vasilyevich Borisovsky was a Russia
Russia
Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...

n (Soviet
Soviet Union
The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

) violist
Viola
The viola is a bowed string instrument. It is the middle voice of the violin family, between the violin and the cello.- Form :The viola is similar in material and construction to the violin. A full-size viola's body is between and longer than the body of a full-size violin , with an average...

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Born in Moscow
Moscow
Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

, Borisovsky entered Moscow Conservatory
Moscow Conservatory
The Moscow Conservatory is a higher musical education institution in Moscow, and the second oldest conservatory in Russia after St. Petersburg Conservatory. Along with the St...

 in 1917 studying the violin with Mikhail Press
Mikhail Press
Mikhail Isaakovich Press, also known as Michael Press, was a Russian-American violinist, conductor and music educator.Press began studying violin with Tissen at the age of eight in Vilnius, and made his first public appearance at ten years old. At the age of thirteen he was concert master in the...

. A year later, on the advice of violist Vladimir Bakaleinikov
Vladimir Bakaleinikov
Vladimir Romanovich Bakaleinikov, also Bakaleynikov and Bakaleinikoff was a Russian-American violist, music educator, conductor and composer.Bakaleinikov, the son of a noted clarinetist, was from a large musical family who lived in poverty...

, Borisovsky turned his attentions to the viola. He studied with Bakaleinikov and graduated in 1922. Borisovsky became Professor of Viola at the conservatory in 1927.

Between 1922 and 1923, Borisovsky and colleagues from the Moscow Conservatory formed the Beethoven Quartet
Beethoven Quartet
The Beethoven Quartet was founded between 1922 and 1923 by graduates of the Moscow Conservatory: violinists Dmitri Tsyganov and Vasily Shirinsky, violist Vadim Borisovsky and cellist Sergei Shirinsky...

. He was the quartet's violist until 1964. There are many recordings of Borisovsky with the Beethoven Quartet.

Borisovsky was also a viola d'amore
Viola d'amore
The viola d'amore is a 7- or 6-stringed musical instrument with sympathetic strings used chiefly in the baroque period. It is played under the chin in the same manner as the violin.- Structure and sound :...

 player. He arranged, transcribed and edited more than 250 compositions for viola and viola d'amore.

He died in Moscow, aged 72.

Harp

For harp solo
Original composer Russian title (original title) English title anonymous
Anonymous work
Anonymous works are works, such as art or literature, that have an anonymous, undisclosed, or unknown creator or author. In the United States it is legally defined as "a work on the copies or phonorecords of which no natural person is identified as author."...

 (16th century)
Парижские колокола Paris Bells 1962
anonymous
Anonymous work
Anonymous works are works, such as art or literature, that have an anonymous, undisclosed, or unknown creator or author. In the United States it is legally defined as "a work on the copies or phonorecords of which no natural person is identified as author."...

 
Скерцо: "Перезвон" Scherzo: "Carillon" (1650?) 1962
Robert de Visée
Robert de Visée
Robert de Visée was a lutenist, guitarist, theorbist and viol player at the court of Louis XIV, as well as a singer, and composer for lute, theorbo and guitar.-Biography:...

 
Траурная аллеманда Allemande funèbre 1962 original for lute
Sylvius Leopold Weiss
Sylvius Leopold Weiss
Silvius Leopold Weiss was a German composer and lutenist.Born in Grottkau near Breslau, the son of Johann Jacob Weiss, also a lutenist, he served at courts in Breslau, Rome, and Dresden, where he died...

 
Прелюдия Prelude 1962

Viola d'amore

For viola d'amore and piano unless otherwise noted
Original composer Russian title (original title) English title Louis de Caix d'Hervelois
Louis de Caix d'Hervelois
Louis de Caix d'Hervelois was a composer of chamber music.-Biography:Caix d'Hervelois wrote music almost exclusively for the viol. Most of his other works exist as transcriptions from his viol music. A native of the north of France, almost nothing is known of his life...

 
Непостоянный
Грациозная
Менуэт
Гавот
L'inconstant
La gracieuse
Menuet
Gavotte
1928 transcription date 1926;
originals for viola da gamba and continuo;
alternate parts for violin and cello
Tommaso Giordani
Tommaso Giordani
Tommaso Giordani was an Italian composer.Giordani was born in Naples and came from a musical family. His father was Carmine Giordani , who was born around 1695 in Naples, died after 1762, probably in London. A younger brother was Giuseppe Giordani , called "Giordanello"...

 
Мадригал Madrigal "Caro mio ben" 1936 original for voice; also for viola and piano; false attribution to Giuseppe Giordani
Giuseppe Giordani
Giuseppe Giordani was an Italian composer, mainly of opera.He was born in Naples, where he studied music with Domenico Cimarosa and Niccolò Antonio Zingarelli. In 1774 he was appointed as music director of the chapel of the Duomo of Naples. His first opera was released in 1779...

François Joseph Gossec
François Joseph Gossec
François-Joseph Gossec was a French composer of operas, string quartets, symphonies, and choral works.-Life and work:...

 
Tambourin 1934  
Franz Anton Hoffmeister
Franz Anton Hoffmeister
Franz Anton Hoffmeister was a German composer and music publisher.Born in Rottenburg am Neckar, he went to Vienna at the age of fourteen to study law...

 
Divertimento for viola d'amore solo, 2 horns, 2 violins and basso 1934 viola d'amore and piano reduction by Cornelis Kint
Alexander Krein
Alexander Krein
Alexander Krein was a Russian composer of Jewish heritage.-Background:The Krein family was steeped in the klezmer tradition; his father Abram was a noted violinist...

 
Пролог Prologue 1962  
Friedrich Wilhelm Rust (1739–1796)
(Фридрих Вильгельм Руст)
Aria con Variazioni 1934 original for viola d'amore and basso;
reduction by Cornilius Kint

Viola

For viola and piano unless otherwise noted
Original composer Russian title (original title) English title Alexander Alyabyev
Alexander Alyabyev
Alexander Aleksandrovich Alyabyev, also rendered as Alabiev or Alabieff was a Russian composer. He wrote seven operas, twenty musical comedies, more than 200 songs, and many other pieces. His most famous work is The Nightingale, a song based on a poem by Anton Delvig. It was composed while...

 
Рондо Rondo 1973  
Anatoly Nikolayevich Alexandrov
Anatoly Nikolayevich Alexandrov
Anatoly Nikolayevich Alexandrov was a Russian composer of works for piano and for other instruments, and pianist. His initial works had a mystical element, but he downplayed this to better fit Socialist realism. He led a somewhat retiring life, but received several honors.Alexandrov was the son...

 
Ария из "Классической сюиты" Aria 1937 original from Classic Suite, Op.32 (1928) for orchestra
anonymous
Anonymous work
Anonymous works are works, such as art or literature, that have an anonymous, undisclosed, or unknown creator or author. In the United States it is legally defined as "a work on the copies or phonorecords of which no natural person is identified as author."...

 (18th century French)
Контрданс Contredanse 1980
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity...

 
Адажио Adagio 1960 original from Organ Concerto No.3
Ария из Кантаты № 5: "Пролейся скорее, источник священный..." Ergieße dich reichlich, du göttliche Quelle from Cantata No. 5 
for tenor, viola and piano (1724)
1977 original for tenor, viola and continuo
Упражнение для органной педали Pedal Study for viola solo 1932 original for organ
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach
Wilhelm Friedemann Bach , the second child and eldest son of Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach, was a German composer and performer...

 
Весна Die Frühling   original for clavier
Natalya Baklanova (1902–1985)
(Наталья Владимировна Бакланова)
Русская Народная Песня: «Не белы то снеги» Russian Folk Song 1953  
Русская Народная Песня: Прялка «Против красна солнышка» Russian Folk Song 1953  
Русская Народная Песня: Плясовая Russian Folk Song: The Spinning Wheel 1953  
Béla Bartók
Béla Bartók
Béla Viktor János Bartók was a Hungarian composer and pianist. He is considered one of the most important composers of the 20th century and is regarded, along with Liszt, as Hungary's greatest composer...

 
Багатель Bagatelle, Op.6 No.2, Sz.38 (1908) 1975 original for piano
František Benda
Franz Benda
Franz Benda was a Czech violinist and composer. He was the brother of Jiří Antonín Benda, and he worked for much of his life at the court of Frederick the Great....

 
Соната D-dur для 2-х альтов и фп. Sonata in D major for 2 violas and piano original for 2 violins and continuo
Georges Bizet
Georges Bizet
Georges Bizet formally Alexandre César Léopold Bizet, was a French composer, mainly of operas. In a career cut short by his early death, he achieved few successes before his final work, Carmen, became one of the most popular and frequently performed works in the entire opera repertory.During a...

 
Адажиэтто из сюиты "Арлезианка" Adagietto from "L'Arlésienne" 1980 original for orchestra
Интермеццо Intermezzo 1980  
Dmitry Bortniansky  Сонатное аллегро Sonata Allegro 1967 original for piano
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms
Johannes Brahms was a German composer and pianist, and one of the leading musicians of the Romantic period. Born in Hamburg, Brahms spent much of his professional life in Vienna, Austria, where he was a leader of the musical scene...

 
Вальс Waltz in A major, Op.39 No.15 (1865) 1936 original for piano 4-hands
Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni
Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni
Antonio Bartolomeo Bruni was an Italian violinist, composer and conductor. Bruni was born and died in Cuneo, Italy. During most of his life he resided, played and composed in Paris....

 
Школа для Альта Viola Method 1937  
Pyotr Bulakhov (1822–1885)
(Петр Петрович Булахов)
Баркарола для 2-х альтов и ф.-п. Barcarolle for 2 violas and piano 1950 original for 2 voices and piano
Канцонетта Canzonetta 1946  
Ernest Chausson
Ernest Chausson
Amédée-Ernest Chausson was a French romantic composer who died just as his career was beginning to flourish.-Life:Ernest Chausson was born in Paris into a prosperous bourgeois family...

 
Интерлюдия Interlude 1980  
Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric Chopin
Frédéric François Chopin was a Polish composer and virtuoso pianist. He is considered one of the great masters of Romantic music and has been called "the poet of the piano"....

 
Прелюдия Prélude for viola solo, Op.28 No.14 1932 original for piano
Вальс Waltz in A minor, Op. 34 No.2 1950 original for piano
Alexander Dargomyzhsky
Alexander Dargomyzhsky
Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky was a 19th century Russian composer. He bridged the gap in Russian opera composition between Mikhail Glinka and the later generation of The Five and Tchaikovsky....

 
Элегия Elegy 1949 original: Не спрашивай, зачем: Элегия (Do Not Ask Why), Elegy
for voice and piano (1844); words by Alexander Pushkin
Claude Debussy
Claude Debussy
Claude-Achille Debussy was a French composer. Along with Maurice Ravel, he was one of the most prominent figures working within the field of impressionist music, though he himself intensely disliked the term when applied to his compositions...

 
В лодке En Bateau 1956 original from Petite Suite (1886–1889) for piano 4-hands
Прелюд "Девушка с волосами цвета льна" Prelude "La fille aux cheveux de lin
La fille aux cheveux de lin
La fille aux cheveux de lin is a musical composition by French composer Claude Debussy. It is the eighth number from the composer's Préludes, Book I . The title is in French and translates roughly to "The Girl with the Flaxen Hair". The piece is 39 bars long and has a running time of about two and...

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1936 original for piano
Louis Delune (1876–1940) Дождь La Pluie jabote... (The Rain...) 1980 original for cello and piano
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf
----August Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf was an Austrian composer, violinist and silvologist.-1739-1764:...

 
Концертная симфония ре-мажор "Двойной концерт" Sinfonia Concertante in D major for viola, double bass and orchestra, K.127 1962  
Alexandre Dubuque
Alexandre Dubuque
Alexandre Dubuque, also Alexander and Dubuc , was a 19th century Russian-resident expatriate French pianist, composer and teacher.He was a student of John Field and later gave piano lessons to Mily Balakirev and Nikolai Zverev....

 
Тарантелла Tarantella 1973  
Balys Dvarionas
Balys Dvarionas
Balys Dvarionas, in Liepāja — 23 August 1972 in Vilnius) was a Lithuanian and Soviet composer, pianist, conductor and educationalist. Dvarionas displayed himself as a composer after World War II. His works are abundant with romanticism, and the pieces are based on folk songs.-...

 
Тема с вариациями Theme and Variations for viola and orchestra (1946) 1957 original for bassoon and orchestra
Andrey Esaulov (1800–c.1850)
(Андрей Петрович Есаулов)
Вальс меланхолической Melancholic Waltz 1946  
Gabriel Fauré
Gabriel Fauré
Gabriel Urbain Fauré was a French composer, organist, pianist and teacher. He was one of the foremost French composers of his generation, and his musical style influenced many 20th century composers...

 
Ноктюрн Nocturne 1980 original for piano
Varvara Gaigerova (1903–1944)
(Варвара Андриановна Гайгерова)
Сюита Suite for viola and piano, Op.8 1969  
Iosif Genishta (1795–1853)
(Иосиф Иосифович Геништа)
Соната Sonata for viola or clarinet and piano, Op.9 1961  
Tommaso Giordani
Tommaso Giordani
Tommaso Giordani was an Italian composer.Giordani was born in Naples and came from a musical family. His father was Carmine Giordani , who was born around 1695 in Naples, died after 1762, probably in London. A younger brother was Giuseppe Giordani , called "Giordanello"...

 
Мадригал Madrigal 1936 transcription of Caro mio ben; original for voice;
also for viola d'amore and piano
Alexander Glazunov
Alexander Glazunov
Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov was a Russian composer of the late Russian Romantic period, music teacher and conductor...

 
Песнь трубадура Chant du Ménestrel, Op.71 (1900) 1957 original for cello and piano or orchestra
Грезы Rêverie in D major, Op.24 (1890) 1948 original for horn and piano
Reinhold Glière
Reinhold Glière
Reinhold Moritzevich Glière was a Russian and Soviet composer of German–Polish descent.- Biography :Glière was born in Kiev, Ukraine...

 
Ноктюрн Nocturne, Op.35 No.10 1946 original for horn and piano
Романс Romance, Op.34 1961 original for piano
Русская песня Russian Song 1958 original for voice and piano
Вальс Waltz, Op.45 No.2 1946 original from 12 Easy Pieces (12 Легких пьес), Op.45 for violin and piano
Mikhail Glinka
Mikhail Glinka
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka , was the first Russian composer to gain wide recognition within his own country, and is often regarded as the father of Russian classical music...

 
Баркарола Barcarolle 1952 original for piano
Детская полька Children's Polka (Polka Enfantine) 1952 original for piano
Мазурка Mazurka 1948 original for piano
Ноктюрн "Разлука" Nocturne "La Séparation" 1948 original for piano
Вариации на тему романса А. Алябьева "Соловей" Variations on Alyabyev's
Alexander Alyabyev
Alexander Aleksandrovich Alyabyev, also rendered as Alabiev or Alabieff was a Russian composer. He wrote seven operas, twenty musical comedies, more than 200 songs, and many other pieces. His most famous work is The Nightingale, a song based on a poem by Anton Delvig. It was composed while...

 Romance "The Nightingale"
1973 original for piano
Неоконченная соната Viola Sonata in D minor (1825–1828) 1932 completed by Borisovsky
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Christoph Willibald Ritter von Gluck was an opera composer of the early classical period. After many years at the Habsburg court at Vienna, Gluck brought about the practical reform of opera's dramaturgical practices that many intellectuals had been campaigning for over the years...

 
Гавот Gavotte 1937 original from the ballet Don Juan (1761)
Alexander Goedicke
Alexander Goedicke
Alexander Fyodorovich Goedicke was a Russian composer and pianist.Goedicke was a professor at Moscow Conservatory. With no formal training in composition, he studied piano at the Moscow Conservatory with Galli, Pavel Pabst and Vasily Safonov. Goedicke won the Anton Rubinstein Competition in 1900...

 
Соната № 1 (ля-мажор) Sonata No.1 in A major, Op.10 1959 original for violin and piano;
viola part also arranged by Mikhail Vladimirovich Reytikh
Enrique Granados
Enrique Granados
Enrique Granados y Campiña was a Spanish pianist and composer of classical music. His music is in a uniquely Spanish style and, as such, representative of musical nationalism...

 
Интермеццо Intermezzo 1936 original for piano
Edvard Grieg
Edvard Grieg
Edvard Hagerup Grieg was a Norwegian composer and pianist. He is best known for his Piano Concerto in A minor, for his incidental music to Henrik Ibsen's play Peer Gynt , and for his collection of piano miniatures Lyric Pieces.-Biography:Edvard Hagerup Grieg was born in...

 
Элегия Elegy (Elegi), Op.38 No.6 1935 original from Lyric Pieces
Lyric Pieces
Lyric Pieces is a collection of 66 short pieces for solo piano written by Edvard Grieg. They were published in 10 volumes, from 1867 to 1901...

, Op.38 for piano
Поэма Poéme (Erotik), Op.43 No.5 1950 original from Lyric Pieces
Lyric Pieces
Lyric Pieces is a collection of 66 short pieces for solo piano written by Edvard Grieg. They were published in 10 volumes, from 1867 to 1901...

, Op.43 for piano
Alexandr Griboyedov
Alexandr Griboyedov
Aleksander Sergeyevich Griboyedov was a Russian diplomat, playwright, poet, and composer. He is recognized as homo unius libri, a writer of one book, whose fame rests on the brilliant verse comedy Woe from Wit , still one of the most often staged plays in Russia...

 
Вальс Waltz 1946  
Johann Wilhelm Hässler
Johann Wilhelm Hässler
Johann Wilhelm Hässler , was a German composer, organist and pianist.Hässler was born in Erfurt, Germany. He first studied under his uncle Johann Christian Kittel, who was an organist at Erfurt. His first post was as organist of the local Barfilsserkirche in around 1762...

 
(Иоганн Вильгельм Гесслер)
Элегия Elegy 1936  
Joseph Haydn
Joseph Haydn
Franz Joseph Haydn , known as Joseph Haydn , was an Austrian composer, one of the most prolific and prominent composers of the Classical period. He is often called the "Father of the Symphony" and "Father of the String Quartet" because of his important contributions to these forms...

 
Менуэт Menuet 1950  
Kara Karayev  Адажио (Китайский танец) Adagio (Chinese Dance) 1962 from the ballet Seven Beauties (1952)
Gypsy Dance  
Aram Khachaturian
Aram Khachaturian
Aram Ilyich Khachaturian was a prominent Soviet composer. Khachaturian's works were often influenced by classical Russian music and Armenian folk music...

 
Вальс из музыки к драме М. Лермонтова "Маскарад" Waltz 1959 from the incidental music for Masquerade (1941)
Ivan Khandoshkin
Ivan Khandoshkin
Ivan Yevstafyevich Khandoshkin was a Russian violinist and composer. He has been described as "the finest Russian violinist of the eighteenth century". He studied under Tito Porta with other Italian influences being Domenico dall’Oglio and Pietro Peri...

 
Концерт до-мажор Concerto in C major for viola and orchestra (1801) 1947 piano reduction and cadenzas also by Borisovsky;
Attributed to Khandoshkin but is now thought to be
written by Mikhail Goldstein
Mikhail Goldstein
Mikhail Emanuilovich Goldstein , was a Soviet composer and violinist of Ukrainian-Jewish origin, brother of prominent violinist Boris Goldstein.-Biography:...

. See Musical hoax
Musical hoax
A Musical Hoax is a piece of music composed by an individual or group who intentionally misattribute it to someone else.- Musical hoaxes ascribed to historical figures :Henri Casadesus...

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Вариации на русскую песню "То теряю, что люблю" Variations on a Russian Song of Love 1955  
Ivan Laskovsky (1799–1855)
(Иван Федорович Ласковский)
Ноктюрн Nocturne in B major, Op.27 1973  
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt ; ), was a 19th-century Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor, and teacher.Liszt became renowned in Europe during the nineteenth century for his virtuosic skill as a pianist. He was said by his contemporaries to have been the most technically advanced pianist of his age...

 
Ноктюрн Notturno: Liebestraum No.3
Liebesträume
Liebesträume , is a set of three solo piano works by Franz Liszt, published in 1850. Liszt called each of the three pieces Liebesträume, but often they are referred to incorrectly in the singular as Liebestraum...

, S.541 (1850)
1963 original for piano
Поэма 1963
Прощание 1963
Романс Romance 1966
Сонет Петрарки №104 Sonetto 104 di Petrarca, S.158 No.2 (1844–1845) 1966 original for piano
Сонет Петрарки №123 Sonetto 123 di Petrarca, S.158 No.3 (1844–1845) 1966 original for piano
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Jean-Baptiste de Lully was an Italian-born French composer who spent most of his life working in the court of Louis XIV of France. He is considered the chief master of the French Baroque style. Lully disavowed any Italian influence in French music of the period. He became a French subject in...

 
Две пьесы
  1. Ариозо
  2. Гавот
2 Pieces
  1. Arioso
  2. Gavotte
1936 from the opera Atys
Atys (Lully)
Atys is a tragédie en musique in a prelude and five acts by Jean-Baptiste Lully to a French-language libretto by Philippe Quinault based on Ovid's Fasti. It was premiered at the royal court in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, January 10, 1676...

(1676)
Anatoly Lyadov  Прелюдия Prelude, Op.11 No.1 1950 original from 3 Morceaux, Op.11 (1886) for piano
Felix Mendelssohn
Felix Mendelssohn
Jakob Ludwig Felix Mendelssohn Barthóldy , use the form 'Mendelssohn' and not 'Mendelssohn Bartholdy'. The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians gives ' Felix Mendelssohn' as the entry, with 'Mendelssohn' used in the body text...

 
Песня без слов "Весенняя песня" Song without Words "Frühlingslied" (Spring Song), Op.62 No.6 1958 original for piano
Песня без слов Song without Words, Op.85 No.1 1958 original for piano
Louis-Toussaint Milandre (18th century) Анданте и Менуэт Andante et Menuet (1770) 1980
Modest Mussorgsky
Modest Mussorgsky
Modest Petrovich Mussorgsky was a Russian composer, one of the group known as 'The Five'. He was an innovator of Russian music in the romantic period...

 
Гопак (из оперы "Сорочинская ярмарка") Hopak 1936 from the opera The Fair at Sorochyntsi (1874–1880)
Nikolai Myaskovsky
Nikolai Myaskovsky
Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky was a Russian and Soviet composer. He is sometimes referred to as the "father of the Soviet symphony".-Early years and first important works:...

 
Конец сказки Dernière du Conte, Op.74 No.6 (1947) 1953 original for piano; from 6 Morceaux-impromptus (Шесть Импровизации), Op. 74 for piano
Соната № 2 Sonata No.2 in A minor, Op.81 (1948) 1960 original for cello and piano
Vladimir Odoevsky
Vladimir Odoevsky
Prince Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoevsky was a prominent Russian philosopher, writer, music critic, philanthropist and pedagogue. He became known as the "Russian Hoffmann" on account of his keen interest in fantasmagoric tales and musical criticism.-Life:...

 
Вальс Waltz 1946  
Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Prokofiev
Sergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...

 
Кошка The Cat 1962 from Peter and the Wolf
Peter and the Wolf
Peter and the Wolf , Op. 67, is a composition written by Sergei Prokofiev in 1936 in the USSR. It is a children's story , spoken by a narrator accompanied by the orchestra....

, Op.67 (1936)
Свадьба Киже Kijé's Wedding   from the film
Lieutenant Kijé (film)
Lieutenant Kijé is a 1934 Soviet comedy film directed by Aleksandr Faintsimmer based on the novel of the same title by Yury Tynyanov. The film was released in the USA as The Czar Wants to Sleep.Sergei Prokofiev composed the score.-Cast:...

 Lieutenant Kijé
Lieutenant Kijé (Prokofiev)
Lieutenant Kijé is the score composed by Sergei Prokofiev for the 1934 Soviet film Lieutenant Kijé directed by Aleksandr Faintsimmer based on the novel of the same title by Yury Tynyanov.-Suite from Lieutenant Kijé:...

, Op.60 (1934)
Колыбельная Lullaby 1962 from the oratorio On Guard for Peace (На страже мира), Op.124 (1950)
Пьесы из балета "Ромео и Джульетта"
Вступление
Улица просыпается
Джульетта-Девочка
Менуэт: Съезд гостей
Танец рыцарей
Меркуцио
Сцена у балкона
Карнавал
Танец с мандолинами
Ромео и Джульетта у патера Лоренцо
Меркуцио умирает
Утренняя серенада
Прощание перед разлукой и Смерть Джульетты
Pieces from the Ballet "Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev)
Romeo and Juliet is a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev based on William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. It is one of the most enduringly popular ballets...

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, Op.64
Introduction
The Street Awakens
The Young Juliet
Menuet: Arrival of the Guests
Dance of the Knights
Mercutio
Balcony Scene
Carnaval
Dance with Mandolins for 2 violas and piano
Romeo and Juliet Meet Friar Laurence
Death of Mercutio
Morning Serenade for 2 violas and piano
Farewell before Parting and Death of Juliet

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Carnaval is taken from No.24 Dance of the Five Couples.
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Rachmaninoff
Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian composer, pianist, and conductor. Rachmaninoff is widely considered one of the finest pianists of his day and, as a composer, one of the last great representatives of Romanticism in Russian classical music...

 
Не пой, красавица... Sing Not to Me, O Lovely One for voice, viola and piano, Op.4 No.4 (1890–1893) 1977 original for voice and piano; words by Alexander Pushkin
Прелюдия Prelude
Preludes, Op. 23 (Rachmaninoff)
Ten Preludes, Op. 23, is a set of ten preludes for solo piano, composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff in 1901 and 1903. This set includes the famous Prelude in G minor.- Composition :...

, Op.23 No.4 (1903)
1950 original for piano
Соната соль-минор Sonata in G minor
Cello Sonata (Rachmaninoff)
Sergei Rachmaninoff's Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 19, a sonata for cello and piano, was completed in November 1901 and published a year later. As typical of sonatas in the Romantic period, it has four movements. Rachmaninoff disliked calling it a cello sonata because he thought the two instruments...

, Op.19 (1901)
1950 original for cello and piano
Maurice Ravel
Maurice Ravel
Joseph-Maurice Ravel was a French composer known especially for his melodies, orchestral and instrumental textures and effects...

 
Павана на смерть инфанты Pavane pour une infante défunte (1899) 1929 original for piano
Gioachino Rossini  La Pastorella dell' Alpi   No.6 from Les soirées musicales; original for soprano and piano
Скерцо Scherzo 1962  
Alessandro Rolla
Alessandro Rolla
Alessandro Rolla was widely acknowledged in his time as a violin and, especially, viola virtuoso, composer and teacher. His contribution to technique, repertoire and history of music is greatly underestimated...

 
Концертный этюд Étude de Concert in G major 1962 original for viola solo
Friedrich Wilhelm Rust (1739–1796)
(Фридрих Вильгельм Руст)
Соната (соль-мажор) Sonata in G major for viola and continuo 1935  
Franz Schubert
Franz Schubert
Franz Peter Schubert was an Austrian composer.Although he died at an early age, Schubert was tremendously prolific. He wrote some 600 Lieder, nine symphonies , liturgical music, operas, some incidental music, and a large body of chamber and solo piano music...

 
Два вальса 2 Waltzes, Op.9 Nos.1 and 2 1952 original from 36 Originaltänze, Op.9, D.365 for piano
François Schubert
François Schubert
François Schubert was a violinist and composer in Dresden....

 
Пчелка Bagatelle "The Bee" (L'abeille; Die Biene), Op.13 No.9 1937  
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann
Robert Schumann, sometimes known as Robert Alexander Schumann, was a German composer, aesthete and influential music critic. He is regarded as one of the greatest and most representative composers of the Romantic era....

 
Вечерняя песнь Abendlied, Op.85 No.12 (1849) 1937 original for piano 4-hands
Адажио и аллегро Adagio und Alegro, Op.70 (1849) 1953 original for horn and piano
Маленький этюд A Little Study for viola solo 1932 original for piano: No.14 from Album für die Jugend
Album für die Jugend
Album for the Young , Op. 68, was composed by Robert Schumann in 1848 for his three daughters. The album consists of a collection of 43 short works. Unlike the Kinderszenen, they are suitable to be played by children or beginners. The second part, starting at Nr...

, Op.68 (1848)
Пастушеская мелодия Pastoral (Alpenkuhreigen) for viola solo, Op.115 No.4 1939 from the incidental music for Manfred, Op.115
Lev Shvarts (1898–1962)
(Лев Александрович Шварц)
Две Пьесы
  1. Мелодия
  2. Плясовая
2 Pieces
  1. Melodie
  2. Dance
1934  
Alexander Scriabin
Alexander Scriabin
Alexander Nikolayevich Scriabin was a Russian composer and pianist who initially developed a lyrical and idiosyncratic tonal language inspired by the music of Frédéric Chopin. Quite independent of the innovations of Arnold Schoenberg, Scriabin developed an increasingly atonal musical system,...

 
Прелюдия Prélude in C minor, Op.9 No.1 (1894) 1935 transcription dated 1931
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Shostakovich
Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich was a Soviet Russian composer and one of the most celebrated composers of the 20th century....

 
Адажио Adagio 1962  
Пьесы из музыки к кинофильму "Овод"
Увертюра
Романс
Контраданс
Вальс-Шарманка
Ноктюрн
Галоп
Сцена
Интермеццо
Народный праздник
Романс
Pieces from "The Gadfly"
Overture
Romance
Contra-dance
Barrel-Organ Waltz
Nocturne
Galop
Scene
Intermezzo
Folk Festival
Romance

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from music to the film The Gadfly (Овод), Op.97 (1955)
Весенний Вальс Spring Waltz 1962  
Johann Stamitz
Johann Stamitz
Jan Václav Antonín Stamic was a Czech composer and violinist. Johann was the father of Carl Stamitz and Anton Stamitz, also composers...

 
Соната (соль-мажор) Sonata in G major, Op.6a 1956 original for violin and basso continuo: Sonate da camera
Carl Stamitz
Carl Stamitz
Karl Philipp Stamitz , who later changed his given name to Carl, was a German composer of partial Czech ancestry , and a violin, viola and viola d'amore virtuoso...

 
Концерт Concerto in D major for viola and orchestra, Op.1 (published 1774) 1955  
Концерт № 2 Concerto No.2 for viola and orchestra 1937  
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Stravinsky
Igor Fyodorovich Stravinsky ; 6 April 1971) was a Russian, later naturalized French, and then naturalized American composer, pianist, and conductor....

 
Пастораль Pastorale
Pastorale (Stravinsky)
Pastorale is a song without words written by Igor Stravinsky in 1907. Stravinsky composed the piece at his family's estate in Ustilug, Ukraine, while under the supervision of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, and dedicated it to Rimsky-Korsakov's daughter Nadia....

(1907)
  original for voice and piano
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Пётр Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; often "Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky" in English. His names are also transliterated "Piotr" or "Petr"; "Ilitsch", "Il'ich" or "Illyich"; and "Tschaikowski", "Tschaikowsky", "Chajkovskij"...

 
Страстное Признание Ardent Declaration (Aveu Passionné) 1950 original for piano
Ночь Night for voice, viola and piano, Op.73 No.2 (1893) 1977 original for voice and piano; words by Daniil Ratgauz
Ноктюрн Nocturne in D minor, Op.19 No.4 (1873) 1937 original for piano
Нет, только тот, кто знал... None But the Lonely Heart
None but the lonely heart
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky composed a set of six romances for voice and piano, Op. 6, in late 1869; the last of these songs is the melancholy "None but the Lonely Heart" ....

for voice, viola and piano, Op.6 No.6 (1869)
1977 original for voice and piano; words by Lev Mei
Времена Года
No. 1  У Камелька
No. 4  Подснежник
No. 5  Белые Ночи
No. 10 Осенняя Песня
The Seasons (Les Saisons), Op.37b
No. 1  January: By the Fireside (Au Coin du Feu)
No. 4  April: The Snowdrop (Perce-neige)
No. 5  May: White Nights (Les Nuits de Mai)
No. 10 October: Autumn Song (Chant d'Automne)

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original for piano
Сентиментальный Вальс Valse Sentimentale, Op.56 No.6 (1882) 1979 original for piano
Grigory Teplov
Grigory Teplov
Grigory Nikolayevich Teplov was a Russian academic administrator of lowly birth who ruled the Petersburg Academy of Sciences and wielded influence over Little Russia in his capacity as the secretary and advisor to Kirill Razumovsky...

 
Менуэт Minuet 1946  
Thibaut IV
Theobald I of Navarre
Theobald I , called the Troubadour, the Chansonnier, and the Posthumous, was Count of Champagne from birth and King of Navarre from 1234...

 
Песня о розе The Rose's Song for voice, viola and piano 1977 original for voice and piano; words by Guillaume de Lorris
Guillaume de Lorris
Guillaume de Lorris was a French scholar and poet from Lorris. He was the author of the first section of the Roman de la Rose. Little is known about him, other than that he wrote the earlier section of the poem around 1230, and that the work was completed forty years later by Jean de Meun.-...

Nikolai Titov (18th century)
(Николай Сергеевич Титов)
Романс Romance 1946  
Joaquín Turina
Joaquín Turina
Joaquín Turina was a Spanish composer of classical music.-Biography:Turina was born in Seville but his origins were in northern Italy . He studied in Seville as well as in Madrid...

 
Анданте из сюиты "Севилья" Andante 1958 original from Sevilla, Op.2 (1908) for piano
Alexander Veprik
Alexander Veprik
Alexander Moiseyevich Veprik, also Weprik, was a Russian composer and music educator. Veprik is considered one of the greatest composers of the "Jewish school" in Soviet music.-Life:...

 
Строгий напев Chant rigoureux, Op.9 (1927) 1937 original for clarinet and piano
Alexey Verstovsky
Alexey Verstovsky
Alexey Nikolayevich Verstovsky was a Russian composer, musical bureaucrat and rival of Mikhail Glinka.-Biography:...

 
Вариации на две темы Variations on Two Themes 1950  
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Vivaldi
Antonio Lucio Vivaldi , nicknamed because of his red hair, was an Italian Baroque composer, priest, and virtuoso violinist, born in Venice. Vivaldi is recognized as one of the greatest Baroque composers, and his influence during his lifetime was widespread over Europe...

 
Концерт соль-мажор Concerto in G major for viola and orchestra 1955 original: Concerto in D Major for viola d'amore and orchestra
Carl Maria von Weber
Carl Maria von Weber
Carl Maria Friedrich Ernst von Weber was a German composer, conductor, pianist, guitarist and critic, one of the first significant composers of the Romantic school....

 
Вариации Variations on "A Schüsserl und a Rein'dl'" for viola and orchestra 1962 cadenzas by Borisovsky
Carl Friedrich Zelter
Carl Friedrich Zelter
Carl Friedrich Zelter was a German composer, conductor and teacher of music.Zelter became friendly with Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, and his works include settings of Goethe's poems...

 
Концерт ми-бемоль мажор Concerto in E major for viola and orchestra 1959  
Georgi Zlatev-Cherkin (1905–1977)
(Георгий Златев-Черкин)
Севдана Sevdana (1944)   original for violin and piano
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