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L. Van Beethoven - 33 Variations on A. Diabiell’s Watz Op. 120 - Tatiana Nikolayeva, piano

L. Van Beethoven - 33 Variations on A. Diabiell’s Watz Op. 120 - Tatiana Nikolayeva, piano
ID: MELCD1000251
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano

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Ekaterina Mechetina (piano) plays Mussorgsky - Tchaikovsky- Rachmaninov

Ekaterina Mechetina (piano)  plays Mussorgsky - Tchaikovsky- Rachmaninov
ID: MELCD1002100
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano

Firma Melodiya presents a solo album of Ekaterina Mechetina, a wonderful Russian pianist of the new generation.

A graduate of the Moscow Conservatory where she studied under associate professor Vladimir Ovchinnikov and professor Sergey Dorensky, and a laureate of the Youth Prize “Triumph” and seven prestigious international competitions, Ekaterina Mechetina began to conquer the musical Olympus at a very early age.

The young pianist’s first concert took place when she was ten. Her pianistic gift was acknowledged by some of the great masters of 20th century music art. So, Rodion Shchedrin entrusted her with the world premiere of his sixth piano concert after he heard her for the first time; Mstislav Rosropovich invited her to perform with the orchestra he conducted. Ekaterina Mechetina has won the audiences of some of the world’s best venues. Today, the pianist plays over sixty concerts annually performing at some of the largest concert hall. Her repertoire includes about fifty piano concertos and dozens of solo programmes. She has worked with outstanding soloists, conductors, symphony and choir collectives of Russia and other countries. The pianist’s perfect mastery, bright creative individuality and amazing artistic charisma have won the hearts of listeners around the world. On this album, Ekaterina Mechetina appears as an inspired interpreter of Russian classical piano music. Apart from one of then greatest cycles of Russian music of the 19th century which is Modest Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition, it also includes eight of the études-tableaux from Rachmaninoff’s Op. 33 and two virtuosic pieces by Tchaikovsky - Dumka and Theme with Variations.

Mussorgsky:
Pictures at an Exhibition (piano version)

Rachmaninov:
Études-Tableaux, Op. 33 (extracts)

Tchaikovsky:
Theme & Variations (No. 6 from Morceaux (6), Op. 19)
Dumka (Russian Rustic Scene), Op. 59

Ekaterina Mechetina (piano)
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Max d Ollone - Orchestral Music - Kaplan - Thiollier - Obc - Foster

Max d Ollone - Orchestral Music - Kaplan - Thiollier - Obc - Foster
ID: CLAVES502301
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subcollection: Orchestra

This compact disc features the premiere recordings of the most important works for orchestra by Max d’Ollone: «Le Ménétrier» (the village fiddler), Lamento and the Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra Like his teacher Jules Massenet, d’Ollone was particularly fascinated by the human voice, and for this reason he is primarily remembered as a composer of operas, sacred and secular cantatas and countless songs.
Although Max d’Ollone wrote relatively little orchestral music and although this repertoire was written in a limited period of time (almost exclusively before 1914), his symphonic music is characterized by a very high artistic and compositional quality. His orchestral music is richly lyrical, emotionally expressive and technically impeccable.
The three-movement structure of «Le Ménétrier» with a solo violin part is very reminiscent of a concerto, a purely instrumental form, but d’Ollone described it as a «symphonic poem in three parts with a solo violin». Lamento is a meticulously orchestrated work. One is carried away by the beauty of its melodic lines and their emotional force. The delicate harmonies, at times unexpected and yet always elegant and smooth, contribute to the sense of movement toward a profound serenity. The Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra is forceful and majestic, at times reminiscent of Saint-Saëns. The monumental, grandiloquent finale masterfully accentuates the emotional power of this composition. This recording is rounded off by a chamber music work, the Andante and Scherzo for Three Cellos a short composition that offers clear demonstration of the evolution of the composer’s musical language.

Orchestra Simfonica De Barcelona I Nacional De Catalunya (Barcelona Symphony Orchestra)
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Mendelssohn - Piano Concertos Op. 25 & Op. 40 - Chamber Version - Fumiko Shiraga

Mendelssohn - Piano Concertos Op. 25 & Op. 40 - Chamber Version - Fumiko Shiraga
ID: CLAVES502910
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subcollection: Quartet

The Japanese pianist Fumiko Shiraga has made a specialty in recent years of performing famous concertos with a small group of instrumentalists. She calls this project “concertos in disguise.” “It was common in the 19th century to present concert performances of large-scale works in a scaled-down version,” she explains. “There were many fewer orchestras then on the musical scene than there are today, and so one had recourse to the musicians that were available and adapted the music according to the instrumentarium.” Beyond such practical considerations, these arrangements can be appreciated on a purely artistic level. To Fumiko Shiraga’s mind, small formations offer many advantages. “When one plays with an orchestra, the result depends in large part on the conductor, on his or her ideas and ability to enter into the world of the soloist. With a small ensemble it is quite different - one is flexible, reactive. One reaches the limits of fortissimo much more quickly, and thus the piano has much wider expressive possibilities, particularly in the intimist register.” For her first recording for Claves, she has chosen Felix Mendelssohn’s concertos Opus 25 and Opus 40, arranged by Cord Garben for piano and string quintet. Plus: six Romances without Words delicately arranged for piano, violin, and cello. Chamber music on symphonic or soloist notes - a rediscovery!
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Nostalgia - Ingolf Turban - Jean-Jacques Dunki

Nostalgia - Ingolf Turban - Jean-Jacques Dunki
ID: CLAVES508917
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subcollection: Piano

Albéniz:
Tango (No. 2 from Espana, Op. 165)

Collet:
La pena

Elgar:
La Capricieuse, Op. 17

Fauré:
Après un rêve, Op. 7 No. 1

Franck, C:
Andantino quietoso in E flat, Op. 6

Korngold:
Dogberry and Verges (March of the Sentinel) from Much Ado About Nothing

Kreisler:
Marche miniature viennoise

Martinu:
Jazzrhythmus from Etudes Rythmiques

Moszkowski:
Guitare, Op. 45. No. 2

Paganini:
Variations on 'God save the Queen' Op. 9

Paradies:
Sicilienne

Poldini:
Poupée valsante

Sarasate:
Introduction and Tarantella, Op. 43

Schnittke:
Suite in the Old Style: Pantomime

Schubert of Dresden Jr.:
Die Biene, Op. 13 No. 9

Sibelius:
Solitude from Belshazzar's Feast Op. 51

Stravinsky:
Chanson Russe

Valle, F:
Prelude XV, 'Ao pé da foguiera'

Veracini:
Sonata No. 6 in A Major from Sonate accademiche Op. 2 (1744)

Wieniawski:
Capriccio Valse in E major, Op. 7
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Tibor Varga, violin - Collllection, Vol.IV - Historic Recordings

Tibor Varga, violin - Collllection, Vol.IV - Historic Recordings
ID: CLAVES509314
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subcollection: Piano

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E. Grieg - Lyric Pieces - A. Goldenweiser, piano

E. Grieg - Lyric Pieces - A. Goldenweiser, piano
ID: MELCD1002118
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano

Two pieces by Grieg played by the composer himself are a bonus.

Firma Melodiya presents recordings of piano compositions by Edvard Grieg.

Lyric Pieces is a genre which accompanied the Norwegian composer along nearly the entire creative path. Ten books composed within 1870-1900 are a sort of the composer’s creative diary which fixed his impressions, genre sketches and deep emotional experience. What we find here is dance pieces, landscapes of northern nature, fantastic images and lyrical reflection.

Four books of Grieg’s Lyric Pieces are performed by Alexander Goldenweiser. A brilliant pianist, professor of the Moscow Conservatory where he taught for over fifty years, editor of piano literature, he is rightfully considered one of the founders of the Russian piano school of the 20th century. A pupil of Alexander Siloti, who in his turn studied under Franz Liszt, and Sergey Taneyev, one of Tchaikovsky’s students, he was closely acquainted with Leo Tolstoy, Sergey Rachmaninoff, Alexander Scriabin and Nikolai Metner. Goldeweiser’s performance combined the achievements of Russian and European romantic pianism with novelty piano art of the 20th century. Goldeweiser’s style was characteristic for its filigree, lyrical spirituality and utmost loyalty to an author’s text.

E. Grieg:
Book I, Op. 12
Book III, Op. 43
Book IV, Op. 47
Book VIII, Op. 65
Alexander Goldenweiser (piano)

Bonus track:
Butterfly Op. 43: No. 1
Little Bird, Op. 43 No.4
Performed by Edvard Grieg (piano)
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Anthology of Piano Music Part 1 - Vol. 5 - Arapov - Kabalevsky - Karamanov - Skoryk and etc…

Anthology of Piano Music Part 1 - Vol. 5 - Arapov - Kabalevsky - Karamanov -  
Skoryk and etc…
ID: MELCD1001968
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Instrumental Rock
Subcollection: Piano

Anthology of Piano Music by Russian and Soviet Composers
Part 2 Disc 1: 1917-1991

Continuing their series, Melodiya presents Volume 5 of their Anthology of Piano Music by Russian and Soviet Composers.

Another release of the Anthology of Piano Music by Russian and Soviet Composers features works of the late 1950s and the first half of the 1970s by composers of ‘traditional’ school. Nevertheless, the listeners will find a lot of real surprises on this disc. It opens with a once famous Rondo by Dmitri Kobalevsky he composed for the First Tchaikovsky International Competition as an obligatory programme for the pianists in the second round. Alemdar Karamanov’s naïve and romantic Variations showcase his music from a peculiar angle while he is better known as an author of monumental biblical symphonies. The piano sonatas by two prominent representatives of the Leningrad composing school Boris Tishchenko and Boris Arapov are true gems of this release. They are complimented with compositions by the authors from the former Soviet republics such as Mikhail Skorik (Ukraine) and Yuri Nikolayev (Uzbekistan).
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M. Glinka -Piano Works - Valeri Kamyshov, piano

M. Glinka -Piano Works - Valeri Kamyshov, piano
ID: MELCD1001827
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano

Glinka created piano pieces all his life. Be it variations on his own or other composers’ themes, or tiny yet elegant miniatures in various dance genres, they all amaze us with their extraordinary finesse and skillfullness requiring the performer’s skills to match. The creative work of pianist Valeri Konstantinovich Kamyshov invariably won his listeners. “I have always admired Valeri Kamyshov for his love for art and noble sense of beauty. He has plenty of musical ideas and unique virtuosity,” said Yakov Flier whose class the pianist graduated from the Moscow Conservatory (1966) and whose post-graduate student he was until 1968. Valeri Kamyshov’s career was distinguished with high awards such as the second prize of All- Union Competition in 1961, the fifth prize of the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1962, and the second prize of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels in 1968.
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Legends of the XX. Century - Alexander Jocheles, piano - Schubert - Schumann

Legends of the XX. Century - Alexander Jocheles, piano - Schubert - Schumann
ID: MELCD1001749
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Historical Recordings
Subcollection: Piano

Alexander Jocheles won a prize at the Second Frederic Chopin Pianists’ Competition in Warsaw in 1932. However his fame as a pianist was ensured by the Second Prize won him in the First All-Union Competition for Musicians-Performers.

Alexander Jocheles had a preference for a broad repertoire which included numerous compositions that were rarely heard in performance by Soviet pianists of his time: from his own editions of Jean Philippe Rameau’s concertos and the rarely performed one-movement Concerto in D major by Ludwig van Beethoven to Claude Debussy’s Fantasy, Arthur Honegger’s Concertino and Francis Poulenc’s “Rhapsody Negre” - compositions which he presented to his country’s public for the first time.

Jocheles is well-known as having made a number of his own transcriptions - for instance, in 1947 he performed Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier” Sonata N. 29 (opus 106) in transcription for piano and orchestra. In Jocheles’ concerts and recitals his transcriptions of Bach’s, Handel’s and Gluck’s music took up halves of concerts. Alexander Lvovich pertained to the select few pianists who had preserved and developed the tradition of transcriptions. Of special interest is his work on completion and reconstruction of Schubert’s piano sketches.

From 1952 Alexander Lvovich was a professor of the Gnesins’ State Music pedagogical institute.

At the Gnesins’ Institute Jocheles was the initiator of the lengthy cycle of concerts “The History of the Piano Sonata for 300 Years.”


Alexander Jocheles was an outstanding piano pedagogue. His ability to analyze musical compositions, remarkable ingenuity in searching different variants of fingerings, a wealth of knowledge of music history and culture and phenomenal memory made him into a veritably legendary figure.


The “Melody” record company had released three times A. Jocheles’ pedagogical commentaries to the performance of the following works: J.S. Bach’s “Capriccio on the Departure of his Beloved Brother,” Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata N. 17, opus 31, N. 2 and Johannes Brahms’ Variations on a Theme by Schumann, which enjoyed popularity among students, pedagogues and fans of the art of piano playing.
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