(1997) The Ossipov Balalaika Orchestra, Vol IV: Russian Music By Nikolai Budashkin, 1910-1988 Franz Lehar In 2017-2018

In 2017-2018

in an intellectual environment that actively cultivated both literary and musical interests

We hope that listeners will share our pleasure in these compositions

Written in the rustic language of landsmål

brilliantly interpreted by the young Swiss oboist Barbara Tillmann

(1997) The Ossipov Balalaika Orchestra, Vol IV: Russian Music By Nikolai Budashkin, 1910-1988 Franz Lehar In 2017-2018Nikolai Budashkin (19101988) was one of the most eminent composers of Russian estrade music, a new genre of music from the first half of the 20th century born in the former Soviet Union, a genre that united the best of classical and folk music. The young composer was awarded the Stalin Prize for his popular and accessible compositions, most clearly represented by his works for Balalaika ensembles and Balalaika orchestras (which were often inspired by