ALEXANDER KREIN (1883-1951): Les esquisses de la jeunesse, Op. 2, 4 Morceaux, Op. 7, MIECZYSŁAW WEINBERG (1919-1996): Piano Sonata No. 4 in B Minor, Op. 56.
Catalogue Number: 03T053
Label: Centaur
Reference: CRC 395
Format: CD
Price: $16.98
Description: Krein is known as the founder of a Russian Jewish school of composition but these are eaerly pieces. The Esquisses of 1901 show him exploring fin de siècle post-Romanticism with a whiff of (feigned?) ennui and some Debussian influences while the undated (but published in 1911, the same year as Op. 2) move toward a mix of Scriabin and Rachmaninovian Romanticism. Anastasia Seifetdinova (piano).