Igor Parfyonov: St. Isaac's Square
Phillip Sear plays the third piece - Исаакиевская площадь - from a collection 'Leningrad Melodies' (Ленинградские мелодии, 2016-17) by the Russian composer Igor Parfyonov (1928- 2018).
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Igor Parfyonov (or Parfionov, 1928- 2018) was a Russian composer who specialized in educational music, following a religious experience inspired by an icon he had viewed at the age of 36. This collection is one of the composer's last works, written in Moscow, and published in his late 80s, and is dedicated to two teachers working in music schools in St. Petersburg. The title of the collection suggests that he is looking back to Soviet era music. In this, and other pieces, the composer seems to channel the spirit of Tchaikovsky in a most convincing manner, although I'm sure that they are not intended as pastiches.
Strictly speaking, I think the title should be 'Isaac's Square', but I have added the 'St.' as that is what it is known in English as in post-Soviet times. My thumbnail shows a view of St. Isaac's Cathedral in its square as I saw it in July 1981 - forty years before this video was uploaded!
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