Sergei Lyapunov - Piano Sextet in B-Flat Minor Op. 63 (Thwaits, Dante Quartet)

I - 0:00 - Allegro Maestoso II - 10:48 - Scherzo III - 15:54 - Nocturne**** IV - 28:14 - Finale - Allegro Risoluto History This sextet was originally written in 1915 and dedicated as a graduation gift to one of Lyapunov’s favorite pupils, Zenaïde Schandarowska [1]. As fate would have it, the original copy was lost. Lyapunov destroyed the original because he had a habit of destroying drafts and had accidently destroyed many parts of the original draft. Following that, a “wartime“ accident lost or destroyed all of the copies that were in print at that time [2]. This led him to reconstruct the score from the surviving parts in 1921 [2]. Unfortunately, life had changed dramatically for Lyapunov by the time he went to reconstruct the score. In a letter written in 1920, his daughter, Anastasiya, recorded that: “The loss of two of his older sons at the battle-front, Yuriy – in 1920, and Andrey – in 1918, has greatly affected my father. He did not reconcile with th