Alexander Tcherepnin (1899 – 1977) was a Russian-born composer, pianist and conductor known for his cosmopolitan style that included influences from France and the Far East. His Father was the composer Nikolai Tcherepnin. Although Tcherepnin's style was Russian at heart, it lacked much of the Romantic melancholy and overt nationalism seen in other Russian-born composers. Instead, his earlier works are characterized by a French leanness and clarity and an emphasis on the clean articulation of form.

Alexander Tcherepnin (1899 – 1977) was a Russian-born composer, pianist and conductor known for his cosmopolitan style that included influences from France and the Far East. His Father was the composer Nikolai Tcherepnin. Although Tcherepnin's style was Russian at heart, it lacked much of the Romantic melancholy and overt nationalism seen in other Russian-born composers. Instead, his earlier works are characterized by a French leanness and clarity and an emphasis on the clean articulation of form.

Alexander Tcherepnin (1899 – 1977) was a Russian-born composer, pianist and conductor known for his cosmopolitan style that included influences from France and the Far East. His Father was the composer Nikolai Tcherepnin. Although Tcherepnin's style was Russian at heart, it lacked much of the Romantic melancholy and overt nationalism seen in other Russian-born composers. Instead, his earlier works are characterized by a French leanness and clarity and an emphasis on the clean articulation of form.
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Alexander Tcherepnin (1899 – 1977) was a Russian-born composer, pianist and conductor known for his cosmopolitan style that included influences from France and the Far East. His Father was the composer Nikolai Tcherepnin. Although Tcherepnin's style was Russian at heart, it lacked much of the Romantic melancholy and overt nationalism seen in other Russian-born composers. Instead, his earlier works are characterized by a French leanness and clarity and an emphasis on the clean articulation of form.
On this CD also works by Khachaturian, Arutiunian and Babadjanian.

Alexander Tcherepnin (1899 – 1977) was a Russian-born composer, pianist and conductor known for his cosmopolitan style that included influences from France and the Far East. His Father was the composer Nikolai Tcherepnin. Although Tcherepnin's style was Russian at heart, it lacked much of the Romantic melancholy and overt nationalism seen in other Russian-born composers. Instead, his earlier works are characterized by a French leanness and clarity and an emphasis on the clean articulation of form.

Alexander Tcherepnin (1899 – 1977) was a Russian-born composer, pianist and conductor known for his cosmopolitan style that included influences from France and the Far East. His Father was the composer Nikolai Tcherepnin. Although Tcherepnin's style was Russian at heart, it lacked much of the Romantic melancholy and overt nationalism seen in other Russian-born composers. Instead, his earlier works are characterized by a French leanness and clarity and an emphasis on the clean articulation of form.

Alexander Tcherepnin (1899 – 1977) was a Russian-born composer, pianist and conductor known for his cosmopolitan style that included influences from France and the Far East. His Father was the composer Nikolai Tcherepnin. Although Tcherepnin's style was Russian at heart, it lacked much of the Romantic melancholy and overt nationalism seen in other Russian-born composers. Instead, his earlier works are characterized by a French leanness and clarity and an emphasis on the clean articulation of form.

Alexander Kuzmich Vustin was born in Moscow on April 24, 1943. Vustin has composed since 1963: however, he regards only those works written since 1972 as valid. His musical language is distinctive by the remarkable organization of its musical texture. Vustin uses the twelve-tone technique, but in his own original way.The works of Alexander Vustin are often included in the programmes of many major festivals, such as the "Kremerata Musica", Tage für Neue Musik (Zürich), Holland Festival

Vladimir Tarnopolski was born in Dniepropetrovsk (1955). He studied composition at the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory with Edison Denisov and Nikolai Sidelnikov. Tarnopolski's compositions contain a fulminently charged musical substance fitting into a concisely articulated, well-balanced construction. The composer's music combines in a paradoxical manner two aesthetical aspects. The first is a search for a new euphony, which is developed on the basis of a complexly constructed sound material, which abolishes the juxtaposition between consonance and dissonance, sound and noise, harmony and timbre, as well as electronic and acoustic instruments. The second is a refined post-modernist theatricality, filled with either joyful irony or surrealistic grotesquerie.

Dmitri Valentinovich Smirnov was born on December 7, 1952 in Leningrad. He graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory in 1975 in Chorus Conducting with A. V. Mikhailov, then in 1978 in Opera and Symphony Conducting with E.P. Grikurov, and completed his postgraduate course in 1980.
Smirnov is one of the most colourful, original, and important chorus composers of today. His compositions honour the repertoires of many choirs in Russia and abroad, are broadly performed in more than 40 countries, and are inevitably acclaimed both by professional musicians and audiences. He is not to be confused with Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov (b. 1948 in Minsk).
On this CD also works by Anatoly Korolyov, Yuri Hanon and Alexander G. Popov.

Dmitri Nikolajevitsj Smirnov was born in Minsk (Belorussia) on 2 November 1948, and entered the Moscow Conservatory in 1967 where he studied composition with Nikolaj Sidelnikov, instrumentation with Edison Denisov and musicology with Juri Kholopov. For Smirnov, music should unite the sonorous experience of the preceding eras without any prohibitions whatsoever on the subject of form or sonority. Nevertheless, he readily resorts to rational structures, to organised proportions that lend coherence to the expression without diminishing the intensity of a romanticism whose chosen affinity answers to the names of Blake, Hölderlin, Pushkin and Beethoven. He also remains loyal to his tutors and role models, in particular Edison Denisov and Alfred Schnittke.

Dmitri Valentinovich Smirnov was born on December 7, 1952 in Leningrad. He graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory in 1975 in Chorus Conducting with A. V. Mikhailov, then in 1978 in Opera and Symphony Conducting with E.P. Grikurov, and completed his postgraduate course in 1980.
Smirnov is one of the most colourful, original, and important chorus composers of today. His compositions honour the repertoires of many choirs in Russia and abroad, are broadly performed in more than 40 countries, and are inevitably acclaimed both by professional musicians and audiences. He is not to be confused with Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov (b. 1948 in Minsk).

Dmitri Valentinovich Smirnov was born on December 7, 1952 in Leningrad. He graduated from the Leningrad Conservatory in 1975 in Chorus Conducting with A. V. Mikhailov, then in 1978 in Opera and Symphony Conducting with E.P. Grikurov, and completed his postgraduate course in 1980.
Smirnov is one of the most colourful, original, and important chorus composers of today. His compositions honour the repertoires of many choirs in Russia and abroad, are broadly performed in more than 40 countries, and are inevitably acclaimed both by professional musicians and audiences. He is not to be confused with Dmitri Nikolaevich Smirnov (b. 1948 in Minsk).

Alexander Tcherepnin (1899 – 1977) was a Russian-born composer, pianist and conductor known for his cosmopolitan style that included influences from France and the Far East. His Father was the composer Nikolai Tcherepnin. Although Tcherepnin's style was Russian at heart, it lacked much of the Romantic melancholy and overt nationalism seen in other Russian-born composers. Instead, his earlier works are characterized by a French leanness and clarity and an emphasis on the clean articulation of form.

Alexander Tcherepnin (1899 – 1977) was a Russian-born composer, pianist and conductor known for his cosmopolitan style that included influences from France and the Far East. His Father was the composer Nikolai Tcherepnin. Although Tcherepnin's style was Russian at heart, it lacked much of the Romantic melancholy and overt nationalism seen in other Russian-born composers. Instead, his earlier works are characterized by a French leanness and clarity and an emphasis on the clean articulation of form.