Young composers often make their living with incidental music. Such was the case of Leonid Desyatnikov (*1955) who wrote in his early years a lot of music for puppet shows and dramatic performances.

Later the author collected some pieces together forming the suite Reminiscences of the Theatre, the title being of course a reminiscence of Robert Schumann's famous Album für die Jugend (No 25). Desyatnikov's cycle – depicting a small entertaining theatrical revue – is addressed to young piani...