Of the two works on this recording, the major one, by virtue of the quality of the composition coupled simply with the revelation of its existence, is Passion Week by Lithuanian born Russian composer Maximilian Steinberg (major, too, because the piece takes up three-quarters of the total time...

The unifying thread that runs through the program on this Profil CD titled “The Belyayev Project”, performed by pianist Miki Aoki, violinist Andrey Baranov and cellist Alexey Zhilin, is that all of these pieces were initially published by Mitrofan Belyayev as part of the Belaieff...