Valery Gavrilin, Village Sketches; Liliya Ugay, piano

Valery Gavrilin (1939-1999), Village Sketches Валерий Гаврилин (1939-1999), Деревенские Эскизы 1. В старом доме - In the old house 2. Баю-баю-баюшки - Lullaby (the literal translation is impossible) 3. Частушка - Ditty 4. Загрустили парни - The lads’ lament (the literal translation is impossible) Liliya Ugay, piano / Лилия Угай, фортепиано Like Galina Ustvolskaya, Valery Gavrilin lived in Leningrad and taught in the Leningrad music college. However, his esthetic values and his position in the USSR music scene was antipodal to Ustvolskaya’s. Gavrilin was born in 1939 in Vologda, and grew up in the village (the province of Vologda). His father died fighting in the Second World War; his mother was a director of an orphanage house. She was arrested for theft when Gavrilin was 10, after which he himself was sent to the orphanage in Vologda. There he also started to attend a children’s music school, and a few years later his talent was noticed and he transferred to Leningrad Special Music School, where he studie