Disk 1

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Sergei Rudnev: The old-Lime Tree
2
Sergei Rudnev: Steppe And Steppe Around
3
Sergei Rudnev: The Willow Tree
4
Sergei Rudnev: Oh, You, the Night
5
Sergei Rudnev: Trinity
6
Sergei Rudnev: Creeps And Curls
7
Sergei Rudnev: On The Murom Road
8
Sergei Rudnev: A Young One’s Path
9
Sergei Rudnev: Monotonously Ringing Little Bell
10
Sergei Rudnev: In The Mountains of Dagestan
11
Sergei Rudnev: We Went on a Boat Ride
12
Sergei Rudnev: Poor Girl
13
Sergei Rudnev: Not for Me
14
Sergei Rudnev: Evening Bell
15
Sergei Rudnev: Like Two Doves on an Oak Tree
16
Sergei Rudnev: Nothing in the Field
17
Sergei Rudnev: To The Road I Go Alone
18
Sergei Rudnev: Oh, Samara-City

Disk 2

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Sergei Rudnev: The Magic Lake
2
Sergei Rudnev: Dreams Come True
3
Sergei Rudnev: Prelude
4
Sergei Rudnev: Evening Mood
5
Sergei Rudnev: Vivat Maestro
6
Sergei Rudnev: Marsel Dadi
7
Sergei Rudnev: Alpine Mazurka
8
Sergei Rudnev: Strokes to the Portrait
9
Sergei Rudnev: Tribute to Barrios
10
Sergei Rudnev: In Expectation
11
Sergei Rudnev: Swan Song
12
Sergei Rudnev: «The Link of Times» – Sonatina
13
Sergei Rudnev: White Grand Piano
14
Sergei Rudnev: Wind-Up Toy
15
Sergei Rudnev: Romance
16
Sergei Rudnev: Italian Capriccio
17
Sergei Rudnev: A Bygone Day

Disk 3

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Sergei Rudnev: Watercolour I
2
Sergei Rudnev: Watercolour II
3
Sergei Rudnev: Night Café
4
Sergei Rudnev: Etude-Fantasy
5
Sergei Rudnev: Mirage
6
Sergei Rudnev: The Bright Night
7
Sergei Rudnev: Ukrainian Towel
8
Sergei Rudnev: Dreams
9
Sergei Rudnev: Latin American Etude
10
Sergei Rudnev: To My Friends
11
Sergei Rudnev: Island of Hope
12
Sergei Rudnev: Forget-Me-Not Flower
13
Sergei Rudnev: Caravan
14
Sergei Rudnev: Cossack Rhapsody
15
Sergei Rudnev: Take Tree
16
Sergei Rudnev: Autumn Sketch
17
Sergei Rudnev: Greetings From Odessa
18
Sergei Rudnev: Moulin Rouge

Other information:
- Recorded January–March 2021 in Kazan, Tula, Moscow and Nizhniy Novgorod, Russia
- Booklet in English contains notes on the composer and works by performer and album producer Aynur Begutov, a statement from the composer, and biographies of the four other guitarists
- This programme of Sergei Rudnev’s music includes no less than 35 world-premiere recordings

- Russian guitarist and composer Sergei Ivanovich Rudnev was born in 1955 in Tula (Russia). In 1975 he graduated from the Tula Musical College in accordion and balalajka. Simultaneously with these studies he took guitar lessons from the famous musicians A. Slavsky and P. Panin in Moscow. In 1975 he entered the Higher Artillery School in Tula from which he was later transferred to the Garrison Military Orchestra as an assistant conductor. There he learned to play the flute, percussion instruments, harmonica and was trained in the principals of arrangement for pop orchestras.
- In the 80’s Rudnev worked as a musical director of various rock and jazz groups such as ‘Russians’, ‘Express’, ‘Young Voices’, ‘Slides’. At the same time he mastered the fundamentals of arrangements for symphony orchestras and took lessons in composition from Oscar Feltsman and Mikael Tariverdiev. By the beginning of the 80’s Rudnev became a concert guitarist, building a highly successful career, in Russia and internationally. In 1992 Vladimir Spivakov had Rudnev invited to participate in the Music Festival in Colmar (France), where Sergei had the honor to perform on the same stage with the legendary violinist Yehudi Menuhin. He plays a Russian seven-string guitar and published his own methodological guide known as ‘Russian Style of Playing the Classical Guitar’.
- Rudnev’s music is drenched in the folklore and tradition of Russia, assimilating all currents styles of the 20-th century including jazz and pop. This 3-CD set presents his unique works, played by Russian guitarists Ravshan Mamedkuliev, Dimitri Illarionov, Aynur Bergutov, Vladimir Mityakov and Sergei Rudnev himself.