Margarita Zelenaia: Waltz-Metamorphoses for violin and piano

Margarita Zelenaia: Waltz-Metamorphoses,
the 1st movement from the "Suite in Stylistic Dances"
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Anna Rabinova, violin
Margarita Zelenaia, piano
Live from Bruno Walter Auditorium at Lincoln Center
Anatoly Semenchuk, visuals

The "Suite in Stylistic Dances" for violin and piano consists in three movements, and the “Waltz-Metamorphoses” is the first one. Almost a couple decades ago, the conductor of the Moscow chamber orchestra “The Seasons” Maestro Vladislav Bulakhov commissioned the “Suite”. He asked me to write light, some kind of humoristic and lyric, melodic (in a traditional way) music for almost 24 minutes. Then I rearranged it for violin and piano.

Each of three dances moves through various moods, invoking a mosaic of images with the development of each individual plot. THEY ALL are the STYLISTIC DANCES, that's why you'll hear two music themes (a'la I. Strauss and the other one is close to the Russian art song) with all their metamorphoses in the first movement.

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