Шурале. Фортепианная сюита по одноименному балету

Farid Yarullin was lost on the 2-nd World war aged 29 in 1943. It is sorrowfully and touching to read the list of his works: piano compressed score of the ballet "Shurale", first part of the symphony, string quartet, sonata for cello and piano, three pieces for violin and piano, some romances and songs... The premiere of "Shurale" was held in 1945 in Kazan (orchestrated by F. Vitachek), and since 1950 the ballet was on а stage of Kirov (Mariinsky) theatre in Leningrad (St.-Petersburg) many years with great success in orchestral version by V. Vlasov and V. Fere. The ballet is also known abroad, the film on it is shot in Canada. Freshness and colorfulness of harmony, resilient rhythm and thrilling development of fantastic scenes, the inspired melodies of lyrical episodes, original national colour characterize music of ballet. There were some attempts of creation piano and orchestral suites from ballet. They had по success. The compilers tried to follow the author' s text precisely, but music of ballet basically consists of short non-closed well connected in ballet's through construction episodes which resist withdrawing. But an abundance of leitmotifs, great deal of "scattered" among ballet's music variations sist to other way: free association of various episodes, creation of the new musical forms on their basis. The pianist Rinat Shakirov (b. 1962) is known as uncommon and subtle interpretator of music by S. Васh and F. Chopin, there is а lot of modern music in his repertoir. Shakirov used the second approach in his suite. This is not formal arrangement of ballet's music but original author' s elaboration. The Shakirov-performer's characteristic features, such as rapt listening to piano timbre color, attention to expressive details, detailed and advisable agogics are reflected in it. Both originality of the music and pianist showiness in а combination to relative technical simplicity, certainly, should attract attention giving concerts pianists to this composition.