There are essentially two works from the 1950s to the early 1960s: The set of Preludes and the Six Pieces for Children. All the pieces on this solo piano recital are quite short. It's strange enough to fascinate and at the same time to be very accessible. Karayev's music is not at all difficult or harsh. Later he moved to the Moscow Conservatoire to study composition with Shostakovich. Karayev's instruments were the violin and piano and these he studied at Baku Conservatory. His teachers included the composer Uzeyir Hajibeyov who, Ismailova tells us, "used mugham in his 1908 opera Leyli and Majnun". His music sings in otherworldly but accessible tones and is lightly tinged with contemporary and extremely approachable harmonies.
2011/17, Cologne WDR Funkhaus, Klaus von Bismarck SaalĮlnara Ismailova tells us that Kara Karayev is known, in his and her native Azerbaijani, as Qara Qaraev.
The Statue in Tsarskoye Selo (1937) ĭon Quichotte - Symphonic Sketches (1960, arr. Support us financially by purchasing this from
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