Alexander Dargomyzhsky Selected Pieces for Piano

00:00 Fantasy on Mikhail Glinkas Opera A life for the Tsar (Mikhail Kollontay) 09:56 Song Without Words (Irina Chukovsky) 14:14 Scherzo in F minor (Mikhail Kollontay) 17:27 Dreams of Esmeralda (Mikhail Kollontay) 21:58 Valse Mélancolique (Viktor Ryabchikov) 23:20 Tobacco Smokers Waltz (Irina Chukovsky) 25:18 Valse in Eb (Viktor Ryabchikov) 26:36 Slavic Tarantelle (Alexander Sandler) 29:28 Polka in Bb (Mikhail Kollontay) 30:33 Ardour Indifference (Mikhail Kollontay) Alexander Dargomyzhsky (18131869) was a Russian Composer. Dargomyzhsky was born in village Troitskoye, Belyov uyezd, Tula Governorate (now Arsenyevsky District, Tula Oblast), and educated in Saint Petersburg. He was already known as a talented musical amateur when in 1833 he met Mikhail Glinka and was encouraged to devote himself to composition. His opera Esmeralda (libretto by composer, based on Victor Hugo s The Hunchback of Notre Dame) was composed in 1839 (performed 1847), and his Rusalka was performed in 1856; but he h