Vasily Kalinnikov - Selected Piano Pieces

Viktor Ryabchikov - Piano
00:00 Moderato
04:20 Chason Triste
05:38 Elegy
11:42 Nocturne
15:31 Menuet
19:44 Russian Intermezzo
21:50 Waltz
Vasily Kalinnikov (1866-1901) was a Russian Composer. He studied at the seminary at Oryol, becoming director of the choir there at fourteen. Later he went to the Moscow Conservatory but could not afford the tuition fees. On a scholarship, he went to the Moscow Philharmonic Society School, where he received bassoon and composition lessons from Alexander Ilyinsky. He played bassoon, timpani and violin in theater orchestras and supplemented his income working as a music copyist.
In 1892, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky recommended Kalinnikov for the position of main conductor of the Maly Theatre, and later that same year to the Moscow Italian Theater. However, due to his worsening tuberculosis, Kalinnikov had to resign from his theater appointments and move to the warmer southern clime of the Crimea. He lived at Yalta for the rest of his life, and it was there that he wrote the main part of his music, including his two symphonies and the incidental music for Alexey Tolstoy's Tsar Boris.
In Yalta he joined two other famous tubercular patients, Maxim Gorky and Anton Chekov.

Vasily Kalinnikov's reputation was established with his First Symphony, written between 1894 and 1895, which had great success when Vinogradsky conducted it at a Russian Musical Society concert in Kiev on 20 February 1897. Further performances swiftly followed, in Moscow, Vienna, Berlin, and Paris. It was not published until after his death.
His body of work consists of two symphonies, several additional orchestral works, and numerous songs, all of them imbued with characteristics of folksong.
In Russia, his First Symphony remains in the repertory, and his place in musical history is secure.
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