Boris Tchaikovsky | Prelude, Remembrance, Mazurka (from Five Pieces for Piano (1938))

0:00 Prelude 1:25 Remembrance 3:07 Mazurka Boris Tchaikovsky (1925 – 1996), note the 100 year anniversary this year!!, PAU, was a Soviet and Russian composer, born in Moscow, whose oeuvre includes orchestral works, chamber music and film music. He is considered as part of the second generation of Russian composers, following in the steps of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (to whom he was not related) and especially Mussorgsky. He was admired by Dmitri Shostakovich, with whom he studied, who (according to Per Skans in his notes for a recording) suggested in a letter of 1 February 1969 to Isaak Glikman, that "If Barshai's orchestra (the Moscow chamber orchestra) makes a guest appearance in Leningrad playing Vainberg's Tenth Symphony and Boris Tchaikovsky's Sinfonietta, you really have to hear them". Boris Tchaikovsky generally wrote in a tonal style, although he made brief forays into serialism.