Samuil Feinberg

Internet Edition compiled by Onno van Rijen

Updated 8 April 2008

Born

14/26 May 1890 in Odessa. Died: 22 October 1962 in Moscow.

Works

Piano Sonata No. 1 opus 1 (1915)
BIS CD 1413: Nikolas Samaltanos (piano)
Piano Sonata No. 2 opus 2 (1916) )
BIS CD 1413: Christophe Sirodeau (piano)
Piano Sonata No. 3 opus 3 (1917)
No. 1 Preludium
No. 2 Funeral March
No. 3 Sonata

BIS CD 1413: Christophe Sirodeau (piano)

Two Poems after Pushkin and Lermontov for singer and piano opus 4 (1926)

Fantasia No. 1 for piano opus 5 (1917)

Piano Sonata No. 4 opus 6 (1918)

BIS CD 1413: Nikolas Samaltanos (piano)
Classical Records CR 075: Victor Bunin (piano)
Three Songs after Blok for singer and piano opus 7 (1919)

Four Preludes for piano opus 8 (1920)

CD Altarus AIR-CD 9034: (Nos. 2 & 4) Christophe Sirodeau (piano)
Classical Records CR 075: Victor Bunin (piano)
Haenssler Classic CD 98.480: Jenny Lin (piano)
Fantasia No. 2 in E minor for piano opus 9 (1921)
CD Altarus AIR-CD 9034: Christophe Sirodeau (piano)
Piano Sonata No. 5 in D minor opus 10 (1921)
BIS CD 1413: Nikolas Samaltanos (piano)
Suite No. 1 for piano (Four Pieces in Etude-form) opus 11 (1922)
CD Altarus AIR-CD 9034: (Nos. 1 & 4) Christophe Sirodeau (piano)
Allegro and Scherzo for violin and piano opus 12 (1922)

Piano Sonata No. 6 in one movement opus 13 (1923)

Arkadia AK 152.1: Christophe Sirodeau (piano)
BIS CD 1413: Christophe Sirodeau (piano)
Divox CDX-25209-2: Hideyo Harada (piano)
Two Songs after Blok for singer and piano opus 14 (1919)

Three Preludes for piano opus 15 (1922)

CD Altarus AIR-CD 9034: Christophe Sirodeau (piano)
Arkadia AK 152.1: Christophe Sirodeau (piano)
Aura AUR 423-2: Peter Paul Kainrath (piano)
Two Songs after Pushkin for singer and piano opus 16
No. 1 The Deathtree
No. 2 O Beloved
Two Cadenzas to Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4 [first and third movements] opus 17

Humoresque for piano opus 19 (1932)

Berceuse for piano opus 19A (1925)

CD Altarus AIR-CD 9034: Christophe Sirodeau (piano)
Hyperion CDA 67050: Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)
Kultur EDA 012-2: Jascha Nemtsov (piano)
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major opus 20 (1931)
CD Altarus AIR-CD 9034: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam (cond), Christophe Sirodeau (piano)
Piano Sonata No. 7 opus 21 (1925-28)
BIS CD 1414: Christophe Sirodeau (piano)
Piano Sonata No. 8 opus 21A (1933-34)
BIS CD 1414: Christophe Sirodeau (piano)
Two Chuvash Melodies opus 24A (1923)

Suite for piano No. 2 opus 25 (1936)

Divox CDX-25209-2: Hideyo Harada (piano)
Melodies for voice and piano opus 26

Three Melodies for piano opus 27A

No. 1 Georgian
No. 2 Tartar
No. 3 Armenian
Melodies for voice and piano opus 28

Piano Sonata No. 9 opus 29 (1939)

BIS CD 1414: Nikolas Samaltanos (piano)
Piano Sonata No. 10 opus 30 (1940-44)
BIS CD 1414: Nikolas Samaltanos (piano)
Three Arrangements from Tchaikovsky's Symphonies opus 31
No. 1 Andantino marziale from Second Symphony
No. 2 Waltz from Fifth Symphony
No. 3 Scherzo: Allegro molto vivace from Sixth Symphony

Brilliant Classics 93006/5: (No. 3) Lazar Berman (piano)
Centaur CRC 2161: (No. 3) Vladimir Leyetchkiss (piano)
Master of Art AAOC-94062: (No. 3) Lazar Berman (piano)
Sony Records SRCR 1888: (No. 3) Arcadi Volodos (piano)
Tri-M DICC 26075: (No. 3) Vadim Rudenko (piano)

"Tale" and "Procession" for piano opus 33 (1946-1947)

Piano Transcription of a Bach-Vivaldi concerto in A minor opus 35 (1956)

Hyperion CDA 67468: Martin Roscoe (piano)
Piano Concerto No. 2 opus 36 (1944)

Piano Transcription of Bach's Organ Prelude and Fugue in E minor opus 37

Hyperion CDA 67468: Martin Roscoe (piano)
Piano Transcription of Bach's Largo from Organ Sonata in C major opus 38
Denon COCD-80473: Maria Grinberg (piano)
Divox CDX-25209-2: Hideyo Harada (piano)
EMI 7243 5 62666 2 9: Polina Leschenko (piano)
Hyperion CDA 67468: Martin Roscoe (piano)
Sony Records SRCR 1888: Arcadi Volodos (piano)
Piano Sonata No. 11 opus 40 (1952-1954)
Aura AUR 423-2: Peter Paul Kainrath (piano)
BIS CD 1414: Nikolas Samaltanos (piano)
Four Cadenzas to Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21 K. 467 opus 41

Piano Transcription of the Nocturne from Borodin's String Quartet No. 2 opus 42

Piano Transcription of Tchaikovsky Songs for Children opus 43

No. 1 Spring
No. 2 My Little Orchard
No. 3 Children's Song
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor opus 44 (1947)
Classical Records CR 075: Victor Bunin (piano)
Consonance 81-0002: Vladimir Bunin (piano)
Rhapsody on Karbardino-Balkarian Themes opus 45

Sonata No. 2 for violin and piano opus 46

Piano Sonata No. 12 in F sharp major opus 48 (1962)

BIS CD 1414: Christophe Sirodeau (piano)
Piano Transcription of the Fugue from Beethoven's String Quartet opus 59

Works without opusnumber


Children's Album (1962)

No. 1 Rusian Song

No. 2 Lightly Drizzling (Etude)

No. 3 Aria

No. 4 The Dream is Coming

No. 5 Morning

No. 6 Unexplored Path

No. 7 The Clouds are Floating

No. 8 Little Scherzo

No. 9 Greek Song

No. 10 Marcello: Fragment rom Cantata, arrangement in Olden Style

No. 11 Liszt: Margarita, fragment from the Faust Symphony

No. 12 Mexican Melody

CD Altarus AIR-CD 9034: (Nos. 1-9) Christophe Sirodeau (piano)
Piano Transcription of Bach's Thirteen Chorale Preludes WoO
Hyperion CDA 67050: (No. 8) Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)

Hyperion CDA 67468: Martin Roscoe (piano)
Piano Transcription of Bach's Organ Concerto   (1929) 

Piano Transcription of the Scherzo from Borodin's String Quartet No. 2

Piano Transcription of two Corelli Sarabandes from his violin sonatas

Piano Transcription of a Canzone and Sonata by Frescobaldi

Piano Transcription of a concerto fragment from Locatelli

Piano Transcription of Marcello's Prelude and three fragments from his cantatas

Piano Transcription of Mussorgsky's Serenade from Songs and Dances of Death

Aura AUR 423-2: Peter Paul Kainrath (piano)
Songs of the West, Folksong arrangements (1933) 

Chuvash Songs, twenty-five songs for singer and piano (1937)

Son (The Dream from opus 28) (1955)

CD Altarus AIR-CD 9034: Christophe Sirodeau (piano)
Ten Songs after Pushkin

Seven Songs after Lermontov








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