Three Generations
) | Label: Catalog: TOCN0012 Format: COMPACT DISC Hershman-Tcherepnin, Sue-Ellen; Witten, David; Berman, Donald; Greitzer, Ian; Yuan, QuanThis album explores music by three generations of the Tcherepnin family of composers: Nikolai, Alexander and Ivan. Although each wrote a wide range of scores, from solo pieces to operas and ballets, this recording focuses on their chamber music, presenting pieces spanning 95 years. Nikolai’s works for violin and piano reveal a late-Romantic, post-Tchaikovskian sensibility, whereas those of Alexander have a more modern, twentieth-century touch, closer to the style of his friend Sergei Prokofiev (a student of his father). Ivan is represented by two works – early and late – for flute, clarinet and piano, which have an improvisatory and playful quality.  Price: $29.98 |