Solovyov-Sedoi ( arr. Van Cliburn ): Moscow Nights ( Подмосковные вечера )

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Channel: PSearPianist · 2015 · Music

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Phillip Sear plays a published version of Van Cliburn's arrangement of the famous 'Moscow Nights'
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This very famous tune was known to me as a signature tune to 'Radio Moscow' on shortwave radio as a boy.  It was written in 1955 by Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi (Василий Павлович Соловьёв-Седой) (1907–79).  This is a Russian published edition, ascribed to Van Cliburn, who played a version of the song at a reception for the Gorbachevs at the White House in 1987 - having previously played it as an encore at a concert in Moscow in 1958, shortly after he won the Tchaikovsky Competition there.

My thumbnail shows a Soviet stamp issued to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the composer's birth.
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