The collection of the Russian Piano Miniature Masterpieces is the brilliant present prepared by the Compozitor Publishing House Saint-Petersburg'' to both professional pianists and home music-lovers.

Scamper along these pages and enjoy charming sounds flowing out of them - the history of the Russian salon pianism shall feature before you” Descending from the end of the 18th century - the beginning of the 19th century the piano art achieved its flourishment in contemporaneity. Gorgeous polygraph design will make this collection to be the real library attraction.

The pieces are clear by their texture, therefore being accessible for the senior students of music schools and colleges. Diverse scale of miniature genres (among which there are the waltz, mazurka, tarantella, classic dances and stylized as salon ones, romance, serenade, songs, nocturne, elegy, preludes, program pieces) allow every executant to find music consonant with the state of mind.

Isn’t it the highest purport of the human-being’s connection with the art itself?

Contents:

A. S. Griboyedov. Two Waltzes
M. I. Glinka. Mazurka
M. I. Glinka. Farewell Waltz
M. I. Glinka. Parting. Nocturne
P. I. Tchaikovsky. Nocturne. Op. 19, No. 4
P. I. Tchaikovsky. April. Snow-drop. From the cycle ''Seasons''. Op. 37 bis
P. I. Tchaikovsky. October. Autumn Song. From the cycle ''Seasons''. Op. 37 bis
S. V. Rachmaninov. Elegy. Op. 3, No. 1
S. V. Rachmaninov. Melody. Op. 3, No. 3
A. G. Rubinstein. Romance. From the cycle ''Petersburgian Evenings''. Op. 44, No. 1
A. K. Glazunov. Miniature
A. K. Lyadov. Musical Snuff-Box. Waltz-Humoresque. Op. 32
A. K. Lyadov. Prelude. Op. 36, No. 3
A. K. Lyadov. Prelude. Op. 40, No. 3
M. P. Musorgsky. Old Castle. From the cycle ''Pictures from the Exhibition''
A. P. Borodin. Serenade. From the Little Suite
A. P. Borodin. Nocturne. From the Little Suite
A. T. Grechanin