Lubomir Pipkov: Complete Piano Music, Volume One

Catalogue No: TOCC0656
EAN/UPC: 5060113446565
Release Date: 2022-09-02
Composer: Lubomir Pipkov
Artists: Dobromir Tsenov

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Lubomir Pipkov (1904–74) was one of the leading members of the so-called ‘second generation’ of Bulgarian composers. In later life he became fascinated with the ancient heritage of Bulgarian folk-music, writing a series of what he called ‘metro-rhythmical studies’ – piano miniatures that combine melodic immediacy and rhythmic complexity, with a character that might be loosely characterised as sounding like ‘Prokofiev in the Balkans’.

Dobromir Tsenov, piano

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    Ancient Dance, Op. 26 (1946)*

  1. Ancient Dance, Op. 26

    2. Spring Caprices, Op. 78 (1971–72)

  2. No. 1 Game
  3. No. 2 Ancient Bulgarian Chorale
  4. No. 3 Chant
  5. No. 4 Dance
  6. No. 5 Half-Awake
  7. No. 6 Peasant Dance
  8. No. 7 Pastorale
  9. No. 8 Intermezzo
  10. No. 9 Moments fugitifs
  11. No. 10 Return
  12. No. 11 Étude
  13. No. 12 Bright and Dark
  14. No. 13 Two Rhythmic Variations
  15. No. 14 Instead of Goodbye
  16. No. 15 Burlesque
  17. No. 16 Rhythms

    18. From 1 to 15, Op. 81 (1973)**

  18. No. 1 On the Rail Track
  19. No. 2 Autumn Fog
  20. No. 3 Complaint
  21. No. 4 Haidushka Mountain
  22. No. 5 Spring Whistles
  23. No. 6 Dragon Holes
  24. No. 7 Peasant Dance
  25. No. 8 Heavy Peasant Dance
  26. No. 9 Colourful Written Bagpipe Tune
  27. No. 10 Forest Conversation
  28. No. 11 Small Ballade
  29. No. 12 Bearman with Bear
  30. No. 13 Thought
  31. No. 14 Nostalgia
  32. No. 15 Recitative
  33. No. 16 Chorale
  34. No. 17 Village Celebration
  35. No. 18 Toccata
  36. No. 19 Novelette
 

* FIRST RECORDING
** FIRST MODERN RECORDING

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