GRAY and CLAUDE POLLARD
Silhouettes, Op. 23 (Arensky): Le Savant ; La Coquette; Polichinelle ; Le Reveur ; La Danseuse
IN Arensky we have a Russian who is. in some ways, hardly a Russian. In his pleasant, tuneful music we find few of those national qualities that so strongly mark the work of composers such as Borodin, Rimsky-Korsakof, and Moussorgsky. His is cosmopolitan music, with this good result, at any rate-that anyone can enjoy it at first hearing.
He wrote several sets of pieces for Two Pianos. This one is entitled Silhouettes in Hound, and includes five portraits: of The Scholar, The Coquette, Punchinello, The Dreamer, and The Dancer....