Alisher Latif-Zade

Internet Edition compiled by Onno van Rijen

Updated 3 August 2006

Born

In 1962 in Dushanbe (Tajikistan).

Education

In 1980 Latif-Zade finished the Secondary Special Music School named after M. Sabirova. He entered the Moscow State Conservatoire named after P.I Tchaikovsky in 1980, where he graduated as a composer under professor A. Pirumov in 1985.

Works

Sonatina for trumpet and piano (1981)
In three parts.
Duration: 5 min. 12 sec.
"Khayam's Rubies" for tenor and piano (1982)

Four Songs for female chorus and piano (1983)

Children's Album, twenty-four pieces for piano (1985)

Symphony for strings (1985)

in four parts
Duration: 17 min. 30 sec.
"Humoresque" for brass-quintet (1985)
Duration: 2 min. 35 sec.
"Takhir and Zukhra" poem for chamber orchestra (1982-1987)
Duration: 9 min.
Monologue-Imagination for flute solo (1987)
Duration: 5 min. 34 sec.
Festive Overture for symphony orchestra (1987)
Duration: 7 min.
"Oriental Sketch" for saxophone (in Es) and chamber orchestra (1987)
Duration: 7 min. 34 sec.
Musical Kaleidoscope for piano, various instruments with piano (1988)

Ton Poem for symphony orchestra (1988)

Duration: 10 min. 35 sec.
Suite for violin and piano (1988)
In five parts.
Duration: 6 min. 35 sec.
Concerto "Navo" for viola and symphony orchestra (1988)
Duration: 18 min. 24 sec.
"Bakhoriyot", concerto for large symphony orchestra (1987-1989)
Duration: 7 min. 08 sec.
Sonata-Fantasy for cello and piano (1989)
Duration: 9 min. 28 sec.
Concerto No. 1 for piano and symphony orchestra (1989)
Duration: 10 min. 15 sec.
"Liber Scriptus" symphony-concerto for strings and piano (1989)
Duration: 15 min. 26 sec.
Cantata for children's chorus and symphonic orchestra in seven parts (1985-1990)

"Chorzarb" for piano, two folk percussions and chamber orchestra (1990)

Duration: 4 min. 14 sec.
Concert Music for two pianos (1990)

Diptych for violin and piano (1990)

Duration: 4 min. 10 sec.
"Apocalypse", poem for seven percussionists and tape-recorder (1991)
Duration: 5 min. 34 sec.
"Oriental Miniatures", concerto No. 2 for piano and symphony orchestra (1991)
Duration: 10 min. 12 sec.
"Sound and Rhythmic", for double symphony orchestra (1991)
Duration: 12 min.
Concerto for violin and symphony orchestra (1985-1992)
In three parts
Duration: 19 min.
"Metastasises or 1001 Seconds in Notes", concerto for two pianos (1992)
Duration: 17 min. 41 sec.
"Burla al Orientale", Eastern Joke for six percussionists (1992)
Duration: 2 min. 24 sec.
"Sonorita da Orientale" for contrabass solo (1992)
Duration: 7 min. 30 sec.
Romance for soprano and symphony orchestra (1995)
Duration: 3 min. 28 sec.
"Invasion", divertissement for chamber orchestra (1995)
Duration: 9 min. 14 sec.
"Sabrie" for saxophone soprano and instrumental ensemble (1995)
Duration: 4 min. 12 sec.
"Taronai dil (Strings of Heart)" for soz and symphony orchestra (1996)
Duration: 3 min. 23 sec.
"Cross and Crescent", trio a la quintet for violin, clarinet and marimba (1997)
In three parts.
Duration: 15 min. 40 sec.
Eight songs for symphony orchestra (1995-1998)

"Vivat, France", music of friendship for piano and symphony orchestra (1998)

Duration: 3 min. 25 sec.
"Al Zikr 2002" for piano, strings and percussions (1998)
Duration: 7 min. 30 sec.
"An American in Tashkent", ragtime for big band or chamber orchestra or symph orchestra (1998)
Duration: 4 min. 20 sec.
Jazz-Waltz for violin, cello and piano (1998)
Duration: 2 min. 40 sec.
"Alvido", a Wreath of memory A. Schnitke for violin, cello, bells and symphony orchestra (1998)
Duration: 9 min. 20 sec.
"Balance of Harmony and Consent" for symphony orchestra (1998)
Duration: 2 min.
Joke for three pianos and eight hands (1999)

"Musical Gift to Felix Koulov" for symphony orchestra (1999)

Duration: 4 min.
Etude-Prelude for piano (1999)

The Musical Chronicle of Great Epos "Manas" for prepared piano, teller, tape, folk instruments, percussions and strings in six parts (1999)

Duration: 47 min. 36 sec.
"Circles of Time", octet in two parts and code (2000)
Duration: 15 min. 45 sec.
Small Waltz for the Great person for symphony orchestra (2000)
Duration: 3 min. 12
Frescos of Ancient Penjikent, cycle of pieces for piano (2000)

"Reflection - solo in 4" for guitar solo (2000)

Duration: 4 min. 15 sec.
"Zimchurud" for piano (2001)

"Greeting ... Great ... Granheim", sextet for flute, oboe, two guitars (II=banjo), violin and cello (2000)

In two parts.
Duration: 7 min. 26 sec.
"Timpanium ... to Leaving Century" for nine timpanists (2000)
Duration: 4 min. 20 sec.
"Perceptio" for violin and symphony orchestra (2000)
Duration: 3 min. 12 sec.
"TOJ", composition and improvisation in soundtracks for national woodwinds and percussions, tape record and synthesizer (2001)
Duration: 10 min. 04 sec.
"Do Not Weep", elegy for two guitars (2001)
Duration: 2 min. 14 sec.
"Fihgon-Moan", music-doloroso for two guitars (2001)
Duration: 3 min. 23 sec.
"Et Incarnates" for six musicians (2001)
Duration: 4 min. 12 sec.
"Copper Patterns" for French horn, four trumpets, four trombones and tuba (2001)
Duration: 6 min. 08 sec.
"Sogdian Mixing" for string quartet and ensemble of the folk instruments (2002)
Duration: 4 min. 12 sec.
"Bursts", cycle of pieces for piano (2002)

"Nayohang" for flute and piano (2002)

Duration: 5 min. 24 sec.
"Usul Name" for percussionist (marimba, snare drum, vibraphone) and piano (2002)
Duration: 5 min. 24 sec.
"The Rhythmic Pattern No. 1" for mixed chorus and national instruments (2002)

"Tajik-Persian Patterns" for "Xenia" for string quartet and folk instruments in four parts (2002)

Duration: 17 min.
"Dar Mavji Zamon" for mixed chorus and percussion instruments (2002)

"Tolerance" for conductor, musicians, magnetic tape ... and for all (2002)

Duration: 14 min.
... Without Words and Demon of Sounds ... for piano (2002)

"Falak-Abegg" for "ABEGG" trio for violin, cello and piano (2002)

Duration: 3 min.
"Tolerance" for symphony orchestra and tape (2002)
Duration: 14 min. 37 sec.
"German Album", five choruses a canella (2002)
Processing of German melodies on verses of German poets
Toccata for two pianos and chamber orchestra (2003)
Duration: 2 min.
Dervish’s Book in six chapters for ensemble of classical, folk, jazz instruments, two pianos, teller, vocal, percussions, synthesizer and record (2003)
Duration: 53 sec.
"Heaven’s Voice" for soprano and tape record (2004)

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