Alexander Dargomyzhsky - Selected Pieces for Piano

00:00 - Fantasy on Mikhail Glinka’s Opera “A life for the Tsar” (Mikhail Kollontay) 09:56 - Song Without Words (Irina Chukovsky) 14:14 - Scherzo in F minor (Mikhail Kollontay) 17:27 - Dreams of Esmeralda (Mikhail Kollontay) 21:58 - Valse Mélancolique (Viktor Ryabchikov) 23:20 - Tobacco Smoker’s Waltz (Irina Chukovsky) 25:18 - Valse in Eb (Viktor Ryabchikov) 26:36 Slavic Tarantelle (Alexander Sandler) 29:28 - Polka in Bb (Mikhail Kollontay) 30:33 - Ardour & Indifference (Mikhail Kollontay) Alexander Dargomyzhsky (1813-1869) was a Russian Composer. Dargomyzhsky was born in village Troitskoye, Belyov uyezd, Tula Governorate (now Arsenyevsky District, Tula Oblast), and educated in Saint Petersburg. He was already known as a talented musical amateur when in 1833 he met Mikhail Glinka and was encouraged to devote himself to composition. His opera Esmeralda (libretto by composer, based on Victor Hugo’s The Hunchback of Notre Dame) was composed in 1839 (performed 1847), and his Rusalka was performed in 1856; but he h