Russian Piano Music for Children | Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev |

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Composers: Dmitri Shostakovich, Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Sergei Prokofiev. Artists: Rimma Bobritskaïa (piano)

It was Robert Schumann’s Kinderszenen and Album fur die Jugend that inspired Tchaikovsky to start composition on his Children’s Album in 1878. He dedicated the set to his nephew Vladimir Davidoff (Bobik) who was 7 years old. ‘For a long time I have been saying to myself that it would be a good thing to contribute, within the limits of my powers, to the enrichment of the piano literature for children, which is rather poor. I would like to compose a series of very easy little pieces with attractive titles like Schumann did’ he wrote to his patron Mme von Meck. In less than a week of writing these words he had completed the 24 pieces of his Children’s Album.

Tchaikovsky’s Op.39 proved so popular that later Russian composers also composed works for children. In the Soviet period Prokofiev composed his Music for Children (1935). In 1947 Shostakovich composed his Children’s Pieces for his daughter Galina. Rather more closely related to traditional teaching pieces that Prokofiev’s Music for Children, they nonetheless instil rather charmingly the academic notion of a happy ‘major’ and a sad ‘minor’ by inverting it in A Merry Story in E minor, and a Sad Story in G major.

00:00:00 Tchaikovsky: A children’s album, Op. 39: No. 1 Prière du matin
00:01:15 Tchaikovsky: A children’s album, Op. 39: No. 2 Matin d’hiver
00:02:20 Tchaikovsky: A children’s album, Op. 39: No. 3 Jouons à dada!
00:03:00 Tchaikovsky: A children’s album, Op. 39: No. 4 Maman
00:03:58 Tchaikovsky: A children’s album, Op. 39: No. 5 Marche des soldats de bois
00:04:51 Tchaikovsky: A children’s album, Op. 39: No. 6 La poupée malade
00:06:38 Tchaikovsky: A children’s album, Op. 39: No. 7 Enterrement de la poupée
00:08:20 Tchaikovsky: A children’s album, Op. 39: No. 8 Valse
00:09:26 Tchaikovsky: A children’s album, Op. 39: No. 9 La nouvelle poupée
00:09:55 Tchaikovsky: A children’s album, Op. 39: No. 10 Mazurka
00:11:02 Tchaikovsky: A children’s album, Op. 39: No. 11 Chanson russe
00:11:29 Tchaikovsky: A children’s album, Op. 39: No. 12 La paysan joue de l’harmonica
00:12:14 Tchaikovsky: A children’s album, Op. 39: No. 13 Kamarinskaïa
00:12:44 Tchaikovsky: A children’s album, Op. 39: No. 14 Polka
00:13:58 Tchaikovsky: A children’s album, Op. 39: No. 15 Chanson italienne
00:14:58 Tchaikovsky: A children’s album, Op. 39: No. 16 Ancienne chanson Française
00:16:11 Tchaikovsky: A children’s album, Op. 39: No. 17 Chanson allemande
00:17:08 Tchaikovsky: A children’s album, Op. 39: No. 18 Chanson napolitaine
00:18:12 Tchaikovsky: A children’s album, Op. 39: No. 19 Conte de la nourrice
00:18:57 Tchaikovsky: A children’s album, Op. 39: No. 20 Baba-Yaga
00:19:35 Tchaikovsky: A children’s album, Op. 39: No. 21 Rêve délicieux
00:21:50 Tchaikovsky: A children’s album, Op. 39: No. 22 Chant de l’alouette
00:22:43 Tchaikovsky: A children’s album, Op. 39: No. 23 Chanson de joueur d’orgue de Barbarie
00:24:37 Tchaikovsky: A children’s album, Op. 39: No. 24 A l’eglise
00:25:30 Prokofiev: Music for children, Op. 65: No. 1 Le matin
00:27:24 Prokofiev: Music for children, Op. 65: No. 2 Promenade
00:28:17 Prokofiev: Music for children, Op. 65: No. 3 Historiette
00:30:30 Prokofiev: Music for children, Op. 65: No. 4 Tarentelle
00:31:27 Prokofiev: Music for children, Op. 65: No. 5 Repentir
00:33:19 Prokofiev: Music for children, Op. 65: No. 6 Valse
00:34:28 Prokofiev: Music for children, Op. 65: No. 7 Cortège des sauterelles
00:35:31 Prokofiev: Music for children, Op. 65: No. 8 La pluie et l’arc-en-ciel
00:36:47 Prokofiev: Music for children, Op. 65: No. 9 Attrape-qui-peut
00:37:44 Prokofiev: Music for children, Op. 65: No. 10 Marche
00:39:12 Prokofiev: Music for children, Op. 65: No. 11 Les oir
00:41:32 Prokofiev: Music for children, Op. 65: No. 12 Sur les prés la lune se promène
00:43:14 Shostakovich: Five pieces for children: No. 1 Berceuse
00:46:20 Shostakovich: Five pieces for children: No. 2 Danse
00:46:58 Shostakovich: Five pieces for children: No. 3 Contredanse
00:49:14 Shostakovich: Five pieces for children: No. 4 Danse Espagnole
00:51:20 Shostakovich: Five pieces for children: No. 5 Nocturne
00:54:00 Shostakovich: A child’s excercise book, Op. 69: No. 1 Marche
00:54:40 Shostakovich: A child’s excercise book, Op. 69: No. 2 Valse
00:55:20 Shostakovich: A child’s excercise book, Op. 69: No. 3 L’ours
00:56:03 Shostakovich: A child’s excercise book, Op. 69: No. 4 Histoire gaie
00:56:35 Shostakovich: A child’s excercise book, Op. 69: No. 5 Histoire triste
00:58:09 Shostakovich: A child’s excercise book, Op. 69: No. 6 La poupée mécanique
00:59:08 Shostakovich: A child’s excercise book, Op. 69: No. 7 L’anniversaire