Leonid Desyatnikov

About the artist

Leonid Arkadievich Desyatnikov (Russian: Леонид Аркадьевич Десятников, born: 16 October 1955, Kharkiv, Ukrainian SSR) is a Russian composer who first made a reputation with a number of film scores, then achieving greater fame when his controversial opera The Children of Rosenthal was premiered at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow. Desyatnikov is a graduate of the Leningrad Conservatory, where he studied composition and instrumentation.

Top songs

  1. Prologue
  2. Kolkhoz song about Moscow
  3. Lullaby - From the Film Moscow
  4. The secret stone
  5. The freezer
  6. Breakfast
  7. Sarabande in E minor from Partita No. 6, BWV 830
  8. Lullaby
  9. The enemies have burnt our hut
  10. A frightening tale
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  1. The map
  2. Golden Youth
  3. Olga in front of the Mirror
  4. First snow
  5. Barcarole
  6. Kitchen [Mozart]
  7. The metro
  8. Foxtrot
  9. The Old Woman
  10. Triste
  11. Trompe-l'œil
  12. Nocturne
  13. To Natasha Schwartz (in approval of her haircut)
  14. Steppe Wind A-Blowin’
  15. Desyatnikov Du côté de chez Swan for two pianos: Du cote de chez Swan
  16. Siciliana
  17. The Constancy of Gaiety and Filth
  18. Sketches to Sunset: I. Absalom's Death
  19. The Beetle (rhapsody)
  20. Sketches to Sunset
  21. Ian, Where d’you Come From? – Beyond the Danube
  22. The Fly
  23. Echoes of Theatre: II. From the Life of Kashchei
  24. Prologue. Vivaldi, January
  25. The Bridesmaid Started Crying
  26. Sketches to Sunset: II. Death in Venice
  27. Oh, Petrivochka, a Night so Short
  28. Oh, My Sweet Vast Canada
  29. The Wind Is Blowing, the Sun Is Warm
  30. The Russian Seasons, Summer "Tolotnaya"
  31. "Bombay"
  32. The Leaden Echo
  33. Oh, the Clock Chimed Midnight
  34. The Target
  35. Racecourse
  36. Rainbow
  37. Passacaglia
  38. And I ...
  39. Approaching Altay
  40. Zoya And Viktor
  41. Sketches to Sunset: V. Lot's Daughters
  42. From Kashchey's Life
  43. Morning
  44. Nocturn (From the Film Giselle Mania)
  45. A Swallow Has Flown In
  46. Sketches to Sunset: IV. Absalom's Death (Reprise)
  47. Oh, I’ll Go to the Garden
  48. Magic Glasses
  49. Sketches to Sunset: III. Jewish Lambada
  50. Barbeque
  51. The Hunt
  52. Sketches to Sunset: VII. Tango in E Minor
  53. Butterfly
  54. Confessions
  55. Tai-Chi
  56. Tracing Astor
  57. Fate
  58. A Rocky Mountain
  59. Death of Absalom and Tango
  60. Lounge Music
  61. Untitled Song
  62. Bel Canto 2
  63. Highway
  64. Bel Canto 1
  65. The Russian Seasons, Spring "Christovskaya" (Dominical)
  66. Yiddish: 1. Varshe
  67. Happiness
  68. In The Grass
  69. Zoya's Birthday
  70. Jamais ....(Elegy)
  71. Yiddish: 3. Ikh ganve in der nakht
  72. Rondeau-chase
  73. Epilogue
  74. Foxtrot "Target"
  75. Paddock
  76. Minuet
  77. Last Supper
  78. Tannhauser
  79. Red Arrowwood, Green Leaves
  80. Yiddish: 5. Ikh vel shoyn mer nit ganvenen
  81. Anna
  82. Polka
  83. Mattress
  84. Sketches to Sunset: VI. Take 5 & 7
  85. In Honor of Dickens
  86. Poplars Grew from One Field to Another
  87. Heels
  88. Old Romance
  89. If Only Mother Had Known
  90. Oh, a Cuckoo Cuckooed in the House on the Corner

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