Gliere/ Chan - Piano Compositions

Cambria Master Recordings is pleased to announce Reinhold Glière Piano Compositions featuring pianist Alton Chan. Dr. Chan, a Grammy® Award nominee, has been termed "full of poetic imagination, fiery and uninhibited" by the Hong Kong New Evening Post. He has recorded for the Marco Polo, Naxos, Toccata Classics, and Warner Bros. Labels. The release includes Glière's Eight Easy Piano Pieces (Pièces Faciles), Opus 43 (1909); Twelve Sketches (Esquisses), Opus 47 (1909); Twelve Children's Pieces (Pièces Enfantines), Opus 31 (1907); and Impromptu in E Major for the Left Hand Alone, Opus 99, No. 1 (1955). Despite that Glière's numerous operas, ballets, cantatas and symphonic works won him the prestigious Glinka Prize three times, the Stalin Prize in 1941, and that he was hailed by the former USSR as Artist of the People, his piano music is seldom recorded or programmed by concert pianists.