Suite for Violin and Cello, Op. 39 (Glière)
Movements
i Prelude, ii Gavotte, iii Berceuse, iv Canzonetta, v Intermezzo, vi Impromptu, vii Scherzo, viii Etude
Notes
Glière was a 20th-century composer with 19th-century musical instincts. Gifted and prolific, over a long career that began in Czarist Russia and ended during Stalin’s Soviet regime he never strayed from his Russian Romantic nationalist roots. While his onetime composition student Prokofiev fled to the West to escape the Russian Revolution, Glière stayed and remained relatively unscathed by the upheavals that shook the country and traumatized so many of its artists. For many years he was an esteemed professor of composition, first at the Kiev Conservatory and then at the Moscow Conservatory, where he influenced a generation of Russian composers.
