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Alexander Gretchaninov: Vision terrible (Chimera), Op.146 No.4 (from 'Aquarelles')

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2016 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays a menacing piece from the Russian composer Alexander Gretchaninov's 'Aquarelles'.
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Gretchaninov (1864-1956) studied at the Moscow Conservatoire, and taught composition there until 1922 when he moved to Paris, and finally  (in 1940) to New York, becoming an American citizen.  He is best known today for his Russian church music and for works for children.  The Aquarelles - written in a conservative idiom for the time - were published in 1935.  A chimera is a figure from Greek mythology, and (per Wikipedia) "a monstrous fire-breathing hybrid creature of Lycia in Asia Minor, composed of the parts of more than one animal. It is usually depicted as a lion, with the head of a goat arising from its back, and a tail that might end with a snake's head, and was one of the offspring of Typhon and Echidna and a sibling of such monsters as Cerberus and the Lernaean Hydra."

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