I have been busy digging through lots of Soviet-era scores this past year, so great discoveries are coming at me quite often. If forced to point out my most significant 'discovery of the year', I would have to single out Georgian composer Sulkhan Tsintsadze and point out the following amazing website, which has all of his string quartets available for streaming:
http://www.georgian-music.com/free_music/tsintsadze.phpIn addition to that, it was excellent to hear both his 24 preludes for piano
and his 24 preludes for cello/piano on Youtube thanks to some generous individuals on there.
Thanks for the link, Caos! Tsintsadze is a composer I have long been interested in. His Fantasy for piano and orchestra, which is a delightful and wholly accessible mixture of Rachmaninov and Khachaturian, is a favorite of mine. His later works are a bit less conservative in general, but still quite accessible to my ears. There's this disc with the Fantasy and some other orchestral works of his and of his countryman Alexei Machavariani:
and his Violin Concerto no. 2 and Fantasy for piano and orchestra on YouTube:
VC (1/2):
VC (2/2):
Fantasy:
I'd really like to hear at least one of his five symphonies, which do not appear to be available anywhere.
:)
Dear Kyjo
Sadly it's only a reissue of this disc in CD-R.
