Sergei Bortkiewicz - Marionettes, Op. 54

“Marionettes” is a suite of nine piano pieces of intermediate difficulty by the exiled composer Sergei Bortkiewicz. The composition is inspired by the various stock characters portrayed by string-pulled puppets. Among some pieces to note are the “Russian Peasant Girl”, which contains Russian folk song, “The Tyrolese”, of which the main theme illustrates Alpine yodeling, and the “Punch-Harlequin”, based on the Pulcinella and Arlecchino characters from commedia dell'arte. The English “Punch”, the French “Guignol, and the German “Kasperl” all derive from the original “Pulcinella”.
Also within the set contains “The Chinese”, a more or less atonal piece constructed from a whole tone scale. For an avowed Romantic like Bortkiewicz, such a piece is an extremely rare oddity.
Catalogue: Op. 54
Order:
No. 1 - Russian Peasant Girl: 0:08
No. 2 - The Cossack: 1:39
No. 3 - The Spanish Lady: 2:44
No. 4 - The Tyrolese: 4:51
No. 5 - The Gypsy: 6:02
No. 6 - The Marchioness: 6:44
No. 7 - The Chinese: 7:47
No. 8 - Teddy Bear: 8:52
No. 9 - Punch-Harlequin: 10:16
Performer: Jouni Somero on piano
Note: This channel does not own the score or audio, and they are only used for non-commercial purposes.

[@kaleidoscopio5]

Marionettes op 54: 00:08 1) Russian peasant girl 01:39 2) The cossack 02:44 3) The spanish lady 04:51 4) The tyrolese 06:02 5) The gypsy 06:44 6) The marchioness 07:47 7) The chinese 08:52 8) Teddy bear 10:16 9) Punch-Harlequin

[@ex867gahyunhan6]

Great short easy pieces! No.2 reminds me Bortkiewicz's Piano Concerto No.1 3rd movement.

[@SoupyMold]

Upon further inspection, one of the chromatic passages in the Piano Concerto’s third movement sounds like No. 7 from Marionettes as well

[@SamirAbadeer]

FABULOUS ... the right word to describe this channel ... I extremely enjoyed these pieces ... I am IN from now

[@SergioLOSOWICH]

Nice!

[@SamTahbou]

Are the down arrows pedal markings?

[@SoupyMold]

Yeah

[@bluetv6386]

That Teddy bear does not sound very cuddly.

[@ondinehd6889]

Ja, Ja, Ja! But maybe it's a grizzly teddy bear!

[@alistair-on-kaikhosruyaoie6810]

The teddy bear is tsundere

[@cristianseres1353]

It is the same tune than in the dance scene in the movie Metropolis (1927), music by Gottfried Huppertz. Perhaps it is some folk tune originally.

[@adonisvillain]

1:40 That's russian folk song Вдоль да по речке, Вдоль да по Казанке Сизый селезень плывет. m.kzbin.info/www/bejne/faXdlZSOnpienc0