Alexander Tcherepnin (1899-1977)
Symphony No. 4, Op. 91
Romantic Overture, Op. 67
Suite, Op. 87
Russian Dances, Op. 50

The Russian composer Alexander Tcherepnin was born in St. Petersburg in 1899, the only son of the conductor and composer Nikolay Tcherepnin, who directed the first season of Dyagilev's Ballets Russes in Paris in 1909. In 1918 Nikolay Tcherepnin was appointed director of the Conservatory in Tblisi, where his son was able to continue his musical studies. In 1921 the family finally left Russia, settling in Paris, the base from which Alexander Tcherepnin began to establish his international reputation as a pianist and composer, studying further with Paul Vidal and Isidor Philipp and enjoying subsequent success in a ballet score for Pavlova and a series of compositions that included a second piano concerto and the first of his four symphonies.

In 1934 Alexander Tcherepnin visited the Far East, teachi