Aleksandr Ilyinsky: Berceuse, No. 7

Phillip Sear plays the wellknown berceuse, or cradle song from Ilyinsky s 1896 Noure and Anitra Suite by the Russian composer Aleksandr Ilyinsky (18591920). Ilyinsky seems to be remembered today for just this one piece, which most young pianists learn. After a military education, he studed music in Berlin, and subsequently St. Petersburg, and embarked on a career as a teacher and composer, his biggest work being his 1911 4act opera The Fountain of Bakhchisaray from which an extract, Orgy of the Spirits has been used in several film scores. Played by Phillip Sear (Email: WhatsApp: )