“Why do you need to attend my classes? Conducting an orchestra is a dreadful, hellish profession. Be the composer and I will be the performer.”

Alexander Gauk to Evgeny Svetlanov, Moscow Conservatory, 1951

 

Choir

“Memories” (“Vospominania”): postlude for a cappella choir (In memory of Alexander Yurlov)
 
“I Embroidered Until Dawn” (“Vychivala do rassviéta”), to lyrics by V. Bokov: arrangement for a cappella female choir
 
“The Little Cuckoo” (“Koukouchetchka”): arrangement for a cappella female choir
 
“The Seagull”(“Tchaïka”): arrangement for a cappella female choir
 
“Hammer Song” (“Piesnia o molotié”): arrangement for voice, accompanied by a mixed choir and orchestra.

Chamber Music

String Quartet
 
Sonata for cello and piano (F. Lozanov version and cadence)
 
Air for viola and piano
 
Prelude and Scherzo for clarinet and piano
 
“Twenty Four Hours in the Country” (“Diérévénskié soutki”): quintet for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon and French horn:
1) “Morning” (“Outro”)
2) “Midday” (“Poldien’”)
3) “Evening” (“Vietcher”)
4) “Midnight” (“Polnotch”)
 
Waltz for chamber orchestra

Transcriptions

Balakirev, Six Romances for soprano and symphony orchestra:
1) “Zapievka”
2) “Beneath the Mask” (“Iz-pod taïnstvennoï”)
3) “Song of the golden fish” (“Piesnia zolotoï rybki”)
4) “Do I Hear Your Voice” (“Slychou li golos tvoï”
5) “I Loved Him” (“Ya lioubila yego”)
6) “Embrace me, kiss me” (“Oboïmi, potselouï”)
 
Grieg, “Roses”, for orchestra
 
Grieg, Ten Songs for voice and symphony orchestra:
1) “To the Motherland”
2) “I Love Thee”
3) “The Small Hut”
4) “Solveig’s Song”
5) “Solveig’s Lullaby”
6) “As Night Falls”
7) “Princess”
8) “In the Boat”
9) “The Swan”
10) “Dream”
 
Mussorgsky, “Without the Sun”, cycle for soprano or tenor and symphony orchestra
 
Rachmaninov, Serenade for orchestra
 
Rachmaninov, Seven Romances for voice and symphony orchestra:
1) “Morning” (“Outro”)
2) “Oh, do not be Sad”
3) “All Things Pass” (“Prokhodit vsio”)
4) “Lilacs” (“Siren’”)
5) “I am Waiting for You” (“Ya jdou tiebia”)
6) “Sing Not, O Lovely One” (“Nié poï, krasavitsa”)
7) “A Dream”
 
Tchaikovsky, Six Romances for voice and symphony orchestra:
1) “No, only he who has known” (“Niet, tol’ko tot kto znal”)
2) “To forget so soon” (“Zabyt’ tak skoro”)
3) “I do not please you”
4) “Why?” (“Otchego”)
5) Russian folksong
6) “Is it daylight?”