TARIVERDIEV, MIKAEL - Olga Sergeevn (Original Score) (Sealed) (CD)

Tariverdiev's eclecticism allows songs to exist apart from the films that inspired them and to speak to Western audiences" - Pitchfork Following the release of the critically acclaimed 'Film Music' box set and 'Irony Of Fate', Earth Recordings release Mikael Tariverdiev's score of 1975's 'Olga Sergeevna'. Produced by Stephen Coates and Vera Tariverdieva with imagery from Paul Heartfield. Bringing the composer close to recognition in the west, the magisterial score and improvisations are taken from the Soviet TV Film series 'Olga Sergeevna' which was directed by Aleksandr Proshkin. Based on a story by Edvard Radzinsky, the show featured several film stars with the lead role of Olga played by screen star Tatiana Doronina. The scores improvised baroque jazz inflections were created from improvised pieces lead by Tariverdiev on keyboard, celeste, cimbalon, harpsichord and piano. Here he's accompanied by Josef Kobzon with the Orchestra of Cinematography conducted by Emin Khachaturian along with double bassist Shakhaliev and Livshin on drums.