THE RUSSIAN GUITAR Oleg Timofeyev, John Schniederman (7CD)

CD1
Andrey Sychra 1773–1850
1 The Poor Branch 5’04
2 In the Valley 7’31
3 Troïka 4’46
4 In the Garden 4’07
Four Études
5 Étude No.1 8’39
6 Étude No.2 4’56
7 Étude No.3 6’02
8 Étude No.4 6’50
9 Variations on Weber’s Last Thought 2’47
10 Rondo à la Savoyard 2’09

Total time 60’57

Oleg Timofeyev guitar (1–2, 5–7)
John Schneiderman guitar (3–4, 8–10)

Recording: 6–12 November 2008, 24 July–3 August 2009, 9–14 July 2012 & 4–12 March 2013, Sono Luminus, Boyce, Virginia

CD2
Semion Aksionov 1784–1853
1 Kamarinskaia 4’51
2 In the Valley* 5’17
3 Exercise in A minor* 1’20
4 I Feel Bad* 3’58
5 Pour bien 3’41
dans ma chaumière*
6 How Did I Upset You?* 4’09
7 Akh vy seni* 4’21
8 Mozart Variations* 4’51
Mikhail Vysotsky 1791–1837
9 March* 4’15
10 Stop Singing, 3’14
oh Nature’s Friend*
11 I Love Pear 4’39
Alexander Vetrov c.1812–1877
12 You Won’t Believe 7’28
Études*
13 Étude in D 3’17
14 Étude in G 2’58
15 Étude in A minor 3’06
16 Rondoletto* 3’11

Oleg Timofeyev guitar (1–4, 9–16)
John Schneiderman guitar (5–8)
* world premiere recordings

Recording: 6–12 November 2008, 24 July–3 August 2009, 9–14 July 2012 & 4–12 March 2013, Sono Luminus, Boyce, Virginia

CD3
Semion Aksionov 1784–1853
1 Rondo 1’46
2 Polonaise de Mars 4’18
Joseph Kamensky
fl.18th–19th century
Sonata for violin and seven-string guitar
3 I. Movement One 7’25
4 II. Movement Two 5’36
Ludwig Sychra
5 Fantasia 6’11
Vladimir Lvov
Sonata
6 I. Movement One 8’14
7 II. Movement Two 5’00
Anon.
8 D’un mensonge 1’34
9 On dit que sans espérance 1’44
10 À ma Clémence 2’09
Andrey Sychra 1773–1850
11 Polonaise 2’27
Ferdinando Antonolini d.1824
12 Perduta l’arbitra 3’09
Domenico Cimarosa 1749–1801
13 Se m’abandoni 3’07
Svientitsky
14 Variations 4’14
15 Kozak – Air russe 2’21

Total time 59’26

Oleg Timofeyev · John Schneiderman (6–7, 11, 14) guitar
Etienne Abelin violin (3–4) · Anne Harley soprano (8–10, 12–13)

Recording: 6–12 November 2008, 24 July–3 August 2009, 9–14 July 2012 & 4–12 March 2013, Sono Luminus, Boyce, Virginia

CD4
Mikhail Vysotsky 1791–1837
1 Fantasia 2’21
2 Not a Peacock 5’11
3 Troïka 4’00
4 I Loved Rose 3’54
5 Don’t Be Surprised 2’22
6 Fantasia on the Themes from Cramer’s Études 3’23
7 Remember, My Friend 5’06
8 Bach’s Fugue 4’05
(arrangement of third contrapunctus from
J.S. Bach’s The Art of Fugue BWV1080)
9 Cossack 5’26
10 Rondo 3’14
11 Go Home, Dear Cow 6’56
12 Ukrainian Song 2’03
13 Ogiński’s Polonaise 4’12
(arrangement of Michał Kleofas Ogiński’s Pożegnanie Ojczyzny)
14 Ah, Mother, I Have a Headache 4’21
15 Vanyusha 2’22

Total time 63’16

Oleg Timofeyev guitar
Dan Caraway guitar (3–4, 13–14)

Recording: 6–12 November 2008, 24 July–3 August 2009, 9–14 July 2012 & 4–12 March 2013, Sono Luminus, Boyce, Virginia

CD5
Andrey Sychra 1773–1850
1 Polonaise 7’51
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka 1804–1857
arr. Vladimir Morkov 1801–1864
2 Polonaise 4’02
3 Kamarinskaia 7’09
4 Potpourri 10’29
from Life for the Tsar†
Michał Kleofas Ogiński 1765–1833
arr. A. Sychra
5 Polonaise in A 3’19
6 Polonaise in F minor 6’08
Andrey Sychra
7 Variations on Two Songs with a Finale 15’57
Pierre Rode 1774–1830
arr. A. Sychra
8 Polonaise 5’47

Total time 60’48

Oleg Timofeyev · John Schneiderman (2–7) guitar
Etienne Abelin violin (1, 8)

Recording: 6–12 November 2008, 24 July–3 August 2009, 9–14 July 2012 & 4–12 March 2013, Sono Luminus, Boyce, Virginia

CD6
Nikolai Alexandrov 1818–1884
1 My Heart* 2’08
2 Graziella* 2’19
3 It is Hard for Me* 1’45
4 Gallop* 3’05
5 Scherzo 4’13
6 L’Illusion perdue 1’27
7 An Orphan’s Song 1’24
8 Ballad 1’56
9 Prayer 2’29
10 Melody 1’51
Fiodor Zimmerman 1813–1882
11 Capriccio in B minor 2’34
12 Capriccio in G* 2’32
13 Tyrolian Waltz* 1’16
14 Waltz† 1’11
Two Marches†
15 No.1 1’37
16 No.2 0’59
Nikolai Alexandrov
Three Exercises
17 No.1 in G: Andante 1’00
18 No.2 in G: Allegro moderato 0’46
19 No.3 in G minor 1’02
Six Études
20 Étude in G* 0’59
21 Étude in D 1’29
22 Étude in D minor 1’34
23 Étude in B minor 0’56
24 Étude in C minor 1’15
25 Étude in F minor 2’04
Vasily Stepanovich Sarenko 1814–1881
26 Romance Without Words* 1’34
27 Fantasia ‘At the Seashore’ 3’41
Four Études
28 Étude in B minor* 2’28
29 Étude in C 1’38
30 Étude in D minor 2’19
31 Étude in G minor 1’48
32 Ukrainian Dance 1’47

Total time 59’38

Oleg Timofeyev guitar (5–11, 14–16, 21–25, 27, 29–30)
John Schneiderman guitar (1–4, 12–16, 17–20, 26, 28, 31–32)

Recording: 6–12 November 2008, 24 July–3 August 2009, 9–14 July 2012 & 4–12 March 2013, Sono Luminus, Boyce, Virginia

CD7
Gioachino Rossini 1792–1868
arr. Andrey Sychra 1773–1850
1 Cavatina ‘Di tanti palpiti’ 3’20
Maslofsky
2 But Sylvia Is Not Here 2’39
Ignatz von Held 1766–1816
3 My Little Dove 6’05
Maslofsky
4 To the Hearts 2’34
Antoine de L’Hoyer 1768–1852
Sonata for violin and guitar
5 I. Movement One 6’18
6 II. Movement Two 3’31
Piotr Naimanovsky
7 Variations 7’25
for guitar and fortepiano
Maslofsky
8 Forgive Me 5’04
Vladimir Morkov 1801–1864
9 Potpourri of Russian Folksongs 6’41
Ignatz von Held 1766–1816
10 To the River 3’08
11 The Ray of Hope 4’27
Mauro Giuliani 1781–1829
arr. Vladimir Morkov
12 Polonaise 9’12

Total time 60’30

Oleg Timofeyev guitar
Etienne Abelin violin (1–2, 4–6, 8)
Anne Harley soprano (2–4, 8, 10–11)
Kenneth Slowik fortepiano (3, 7, 9–12)

Recording: 6–12 November 2008, 24 July–3 August 2009, 9–14 July 2012 & 4–12 March 2013, Sono Luminus, Boyce, Virginia