Vladimir Drozdoff - Selected Works for Piano

00:00 Reflections at Chopin&Urn (Vyacheslav Gryazanov) 04:14 Poème de la jeunesse (Georg Borisov) 07:33 Sonata No.12 "Moonlight Fantasia" (Ana Gligvashvili) 13:19 Two Pieces - Dithyramb (Amanda A.Hughes) 14:36 Two Pieces - Ode to the past (Pavel Gintov) 16:34 Sonata No.17 "Deaths Lullaby" in memoriam A.Gretchaninoff (Katherine Svistoonoff) 22:19 Elegia (Beth Levin) 25:22 Cakewalk (Katherine Svistoonoff) 27:05 Sonata No.14 "Reminiscenza" (Katherine Svistoonoff) 35:52 Scherzo Valse (Composer plays) Vladimir Drozdoff (1882-1960) was a Russian Pianist and Composer. He was a student at the Saratov Music School (precursor to the Saratov Conservatory), and the St. Petersburg Conservatory where he studied piano with Anna Yesipova and composition with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. Later he trained under Theodore Leschetizky in Vienna. There are 132 complete compositions and another 56 fragments of Drozdoff. Original manuscripts are housed between the St. Petersburg Conservatory&Scientific Library and the family&private collection. Drozdoff was the youngest professor ever appointed at the Conservatory, and was the colleague of Auer, Medtner, Godowsky, Glazounov, Liadov, and Gretchaninov; and it was here where he first met Sergei Rachmaninoff. His students at the St. Petersburg Conservatory included Emanuel Bay, Maria Yudina and Pauline Heifitz. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...