Igor Shamo: Complete Piano Music (3CD)

IGOR SHAMO (1925–1982)
Complete Piano Music (3CD)
Dimitri Tchesnokov (piano)

CD 1 – 55:39

Ukrainian Suite (1948)

1. Duma – 5:34
2. Vesnyanka – 2:36
3. Melody – 4:09
4. Dance – 3:29

Pictures by Russian Painters (1959)
5. Troika – 2:01
6. Summer evening – 4:27
7. Morning in the woods – 1:37
8. Volodymyrka – 7:17
9. Little birch tree – 3:55
10. Country dance – 3:25

11. Vesnyanka (1955) – 2:51

Classical Suite (1958)
12. Prelude – 1:29
13. Minuet – 1:45
14. Aria – 5:17
15. Courante – 0:58
16. Gavotte – 2:04
17. Gigue – 2:07

CD 2 – 73:10

Hutsul Aquarelles (1972)

1. Sunrise in the mountains – 7:40
2. Musicians ascend a mountain – 3:17
3. Little shepherd – 4:09
4. Spring rain – 3:41
5. Hailvka – 5:38
6. Shepherd’s dance – 5:22

12 Preludes (1962)
7. No. 1 in C major – 2:57
8. No. 2 in A minor – 2:48
9. No. 3 in G major (Tarantella) – 3:03
10. No. 4 in E minor (Elegy) – 3:49
11. No. 5 in D major – 3:35
12. No. 6 in B minor (Bumblebee) – 1:37
13. No. 7 in A major – 4:06
14. No. 8 in F sharp minor (Bells) – 6:06
15. No. 9 in E major (Evening Kyiv) – 4:27
16. No. 10 in C sharp minor – 3:02
17. No. 11 in B major (Colonel!) – 2:42
18. No. 12 in G sharp minor – 4:55

CD 3 – 67:57

Tarasovi dumy (1960)

1. My thoughts, my thoughts… – 5:07
2. Nothing sweeter than a young mother… – 3:45
3. Ukraine was worried… – 5:01
4. My heart takes me to a quiet garden, in Ukraine – 3:30
5. Break the chains! – 5:15
6. In the steppe – 6:06

Songs of Friendship (1954)
7. Czech song – 5:39
8. Polish song – 3:29
9. Romanian song – 2:05

10. Toccata (1952) – 4:17
11. Horovodna (1955) – 3:16
12. Humoresque (1946) – 3:08

Three Dances (1972)
13. Uzbek dance – 2:14
14. Azerbaijani dance – 3:18
15. Armenian dance – 3:44

16. Scherzo – 1:55
17. Fantastic March (1946) – 5:04