This volume continues the 'Belle Epoque Russe' series in which previously hidden 'gems' from Belaieff's archives, music pieces from pre-revolutionary Russia, are made available in their original (although revised) form.The volume contains 5 Preludes Op. 7 by Vassily Kalafaty, a fairly well-known composer in his day, who not only was a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov but also teacher of Igor Stravinsky (harmony and counterpoint) for some time, as well as the typical Russian epic ballad Op. 21 'From old ...

• I Wassilij Kalafati: Fünf Präludien op. 7
• II Anatoly Liadow: Aus alten Zeiten (Ballade) op. 21
• III Joseph Wihtol: Humoreske op. 3