Compiled by his wife Vera Tariverdieva ‘Film Music’ includes a selection of the cult Russian film composer’s greatest tracks including many previously unreleased versions. All were made with new transfers from original tapes and his own reel-to-reel machine. They are thematically programmed around Vera’s intimate knowledge of her husband’s music. It is with her blessing and dedication to see his legacy live on that we are able to bring his music to new audiences. ‘Film Music’ unveils the extraordinary life of an unusual composer who was acutely aware of the political environment although it was not central to his work. The 3LP boxset is beautifully packaged within hard outer slipcase and comes with a 24 page booklet bursting with unseen documents and materials from the Tariverdiev home. The rare photographs come from Mikael’s personal collection including stills from the film sets he was working on his and Vera’s apartment and images of his studio images.

Disc 1 ‘Goodbye Boys’
1. Boys and the Sea - part one
2. Boys and the Sea - part two
3. Dance at the Stadium (From ’The Man Follows the Sun’ 1961
4. Waltz (From The Long day’ 1960)
5. My Younger Brother
6. The Last Romantic
7. Evening Café
8. Summer Blues
9. All this Jazz
10. A la Invenzia
11. Don’t Be Sad – Instrumental
12. Waltz (From The last Thief)
13. Unfinished Recording
14. Russian Ragtime
15. Dolphins
16. You have such Eyes
17. Goodbye Boys

Disc 2 ‘Snow Over Leningrad’
1. On Tsvetochnaya Street
2. A Moment
3. Prelude for Ket
4. Roads
5. Couple in a Café
6. Expectation of the New Year
7. Snow Over Len-ingrad
8. No One’s Home
9. Along My Street for Many Years
10. What is Happening to Me?
11. I Like
12. Aria for a Moscow Guest
13. I Asked the Ash Tree
14. I Asked the Mirror
15. The Third Stroitelnaya Street
16. Melody
17. The Last Waltz

Disc 3 ‘I Am A Tree’
1. I Love
2. Morning Clouds
3. Moscow Morning
4. Moscow Morning – variation
5. Morning in the Mountains
6. Prelude for Cello and Piano
7. Nocturne
8. I am writing to You by Accident
9. On the Scout
10. Over the Fields the Twilight is Indistinct
11. Your Voice
12. Accordion Waltz
13. It Happens
14. Until Tomorrow
15. Don’t Be Sad – Vocal Variation
16. I am a Tree
17. Goodbye Boys – variation