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Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877-1952) continued the late-Romantic piano tradition with great melodic talent. After studying in St. Petersburg with Anatoly Lyadov and in Leipzig with the Liszt pupil Alfred Reisenauer, the native Ukrainian settled in Berlin. Political times blocked his career several times. Only in 1945 he was able to regain his footing in Vienna. The Fantasy Pieces for Piano op. 61 were to be printed in 1949 by the music publishers Benjamin, but again the political circumstances were not favorable for Bortkiewicz. In 2013, the manuscript was discovered in the Saxon State Archive Leipzig. This first edition finally makes Bortkiewicz's highly pianistic pieces accessible. The fantasy pieces do not deny the role models Chopin, Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky and bribe with Slavic tinted melancholy, paired with Viennese charm.
Contains the following Die Prinzessin auf der Erbse (The Princess with the Pea), Op. 30, No. 1 ; Die Glocke (The Clock), Op. 30, No. 2 ; Der standhafte Zinnsoldat (The Hardy Tin Soldier), Op. 30, No. 3 ; Der Engel (The Angel), Op. 30, No. 4 ; Die Blumen der kleinen Ida (Litte Ida's Flowers), Op. 30, No. 5 ; Die Nachtigall (The Nightingale), Op. 30, No. 6 ; Es ist ganz gewiß (It Is Quite Certain), Op. 30, No. 7 ; Das Kind im Grabe (The Child in the Grave), Op. 30, No. 8 ; Der Schmetterling (The Butterfly), Op. 30, No. 9 ; Das häßliche junge Entelein (The Ugly Duckling), Op. 30, No. 10 ; Goldschatz (Golden Treasure), Op. 30, No. 11 ; Das eherne Schwein (The Metal Pig), Op. 30, No. 12 * Manufacturer EE1011 * Piano
Sergei Bortkiewicz's Marionettes for Piano. Nine easy Piano pieces Op54.