R. Gazizov Piano Concerto with Alexander Polezhaev (piano)

Robert Gazizov Concerto for Piano and Orchestra with solist Alexander Polezhaev and Veronika Dudarova conducting the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra. Released on Melodiya in 1981 as S10 25195, 6 (LP). This LP does include Robert Gazizov s Symphony No. 1. ROBERT GAZIZOV (b. 1939). Robert Gazizov was born in Ufa, Russia. In 1968, after graduation from the college of art in Ufa he entered Prof. class of composition at the Kazan Conservatory. The seventies saw the composer active in the composition of choral and stage music. Almost immediately after his gradiation he wrote the children s ballet Ali Baba and the Forty Robberies. The eighties have marked a shift to another, more mature stage in his creative instrumental compositions are different in content, structure and expressive meaning. His Concert for Oboe and Chamber Orchestra deserves special attention. It has been created in the wake of barouke musical tradition and is remarkable for depth and capacious polyphonic thinking. H