YAGLING, Victoria

Victoria Yagling (1946-2011) was born in Russia and lived in Finland since 1990. Her long career as a cellist served as an excellent accompaniment to the composition she began at an early age.

Yagling’s three cello concertos are her main works. Her other orchestral works include Finnish Notebook, Lyrical Preludes and the Suite for Cello and String Orchestra. She also composed solo works (e.g. the Suite for Cello Solo No. 1 chosen as an obligatory piece for the 7th Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow in 1982).

Yagling wrote also vocal and chamber works, including two string quartets. Among her published works are the Autumn Diary for piano, Vocalise for cello and piano and Larghetto and Siciliana for cello and piano. Her expressive, romantically-orientated style is Russian in spirit and has grown out of the soil provided by Prokofiev and Shostakovich. Yagling’s works have been recorded on the Melodya label.