Dmitri Smolski
Internet Edition compiled by Onno van Rijen
Updated 7 September 2002
Born
25 July 1937 in Minsk.
Education
Dmitri Smolski began his muscial studies at the Belorussian State Conservatory
where he graduated under professor Bogatirev in 1960, and where in 1962 he joined
the staff as a lecturer.
He has composed in all the major genres, his earliest major
successes being the First Piano Concerto and
the symphonic poem Belarus, both dating from 1960. His First Symphony followed
in 1962 and inspired a particularly creative period crowned by the pair of ballets,
the Patriotic Etude and Belorussian Picture, since when Smolsky has come
to be regarded as the leading composer of his region.
Works
Concerto No. 1 for piano and orchestra (1960)
"Belarus", symphonic poem (1960)
Dulcimer Concerto no. 1 (1961)
- Olympia OCD 551: Belorussian State TV and Radio Orchestra, Boris Raisky (cond), Eugene Gladkov (dulcimer)
Symphony No. 1 (1962)
Symphony No. 2
Symphony No. 3
Patriotic Etude, ballet (1967)
Symphony No. 4
Concerto for violin and orchestra (1971)
- CD Olympia OCD 551: Belorussian State TV and Radio Orchestra, Boris Raisky (cond), Leo Gorelic (violin)
"My Homeland", oratorio (1972)
Belorussisian Picture, ballet (1972)
Concerto for cello and orchestra in C major (1973)
- CD Olympia OCD 551: Belorussian State TV and Radio Orchestra, Boris Raisky (cond), Eugene Ksaveriyev (cello)
Dulcimer Concerto no. 2 (1974)
Concerto No. 2 for piano and orchestra (1977)
"The Grey Legend", opera (1978)
Symphony No. 5
Overture for orchestra
- Olympia OCD 551: Belorussian State TV and Radio Orchestra, Boris Raisky (cond)
Symphony No. 6 (1988)
- CD Olympia OCD 551: Belorussian State TV and Radio Orchestra, Valery Leonov (cond)
Thanks to Guido Schuitema from the Netherlands for additional information
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