You are given the unique chance to peep into the collection of completed pieces originally created for piano in four hands by the great Russian composer Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804–1857), so as his arrangements of the opuses initially implied for other instruments. Melodic sphere looks mostly elaborated here: expressive human speech, as the musicologist Boris Asafiev used to say. Of course, it requires refined lissom intoning, making this music mostly desired for the young pianists? Vivid harmonic fluctuations, plenty of counterpoints with the inculcated motives of folk nature support the development of timbre hearing, while alternating bosom feelings percolate through the philosophical integrity. Taste, style, balance and profundity of the musical phenomena acceptance are getting mastered due to these contradictory strata.Hopefully, the publication of the compositions in four hands by M. I. Glinka will be useful in music and art colleges, so as during the hours of home music-making.Contents:CAVALRY TROT (1)CAVALRY TROT (2) IMPROMPTU IN GALOP FORM. To the theme from the opera L’elisir d’amore by G. DonizettiPOLKACAPRICCIO TO THE RUSSIAN THEMES