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ID: MELCD1002072 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: Orchestral WorksPodkolekce: Orchestr Melodiya presents recordings of the outstanding Soviet conductor Alexander Melik- Pashayev.
His performing career at the USSR Bolshoi Theatre lasted more than 30 years and made up a whole era in the life of the famous company. His numerous recordings of opera sets, including those awarded with prestigious foreign prizes such as Borodin’s Prince Igor, Prokofiev’s War and Peace and Mussorgsky’s Boris Godunov, are very well known. However, he is less known as a symphony conductor, but Melik-Pashayev’s concerts with the Bolshoi orchestra were some of the brightest ones in Moscow’s eventful music life. Melodiya revisits this part of Melik-Pashayev’s conducting legacy.
Schubert:
Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D759 'Unfinished'
Tchaikovsky:
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 'Pathétique'
The USSR Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Alexander Melik-Pashayev |
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ID: MELCD6002158 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: JazzPodkolekce: Orchestr Dear jazz friends, This new CD made up of pieces which not specifically composed for this recording sessions. It is collection of compositions that we play live on stage and that we now wish to share with a broader jazz audience. The recordings include compositions by Oleg Lundstrem, several arrangements by the one and only Vitaly Dolgov. The CD also features some pieces that were composed by me at diffirent times in the past and arranged by me and Nick Levinovsky, an old friend of mine and a brilliant musician. The soloists' line-up includes Ivan Volkov, Oleg Grymov, Denis Prushinsky, Roman Sekachev, Maxim Piganov, Igor Ulanov and Vladimir Zhurkin. Some solos you can hear performed by one of the best trumpet players of the country - Victor «Arzu» Guseynov. Follow us and explore the subtle corners of the magnificent world of jazz where sounds, human hearts and souls merge in a precious melodious fusion... Boris Frumkin, Music Director and Conductor of «Oleg Lundstrem Jazz Orchestra» |
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ID: MELCD1002336 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Podkolekce: Vocal and Piano Georgy Sviridov, piano (11-17)
Alexei Maslennikov, tenor
Igor Morozov, baritone (12, 14-16)
State Republican Academic Russian Yurlov Choir (1-10, 18-21)
Leningrad State Philharmonics’ Symphony Orchestra - conductor - Yuri Temirkanov (1-10)
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor - Gennady Rozhdestvensky (18-21)
Recordings: 1957 (1-10),1980 (11-17), 1970 (18-21)
Firma Melodiya presents an album dedicated to the anniversaries of two great figures of Russian culture of the 20th century - Sergei Yesenin (1895-1925) and Georgy Sviridov (1915-1998).
“Once … I met a poet I knew, and he spent a long time reading Yesenin for me. That’s when Yesenin’s verses imprinted themselves on my soul. When I got back home, I could not fall
asleep… The music came suddenly. … That was how I wrote my first song to Yesenin’s text which later became a core song in my Poem to the Memory of Sergei Yesenin. The rest of the songs were composed during two weeks, all at once”. The premiere of the Poem to the Memory of Sergei Yesenin took place in 1956, in Moscow and was a new milestone in the composer’s career properly unveiling his original style and subtle feeling for poetry to the public. On the other hand, Sviridov’s Poem where the composer strived to render the poet’s spiritual side and passionate “love for the native land” became an actual rehabilitation of Yesenin’s poetry which had been covertly prohibited for a long time. Soon after completion of the vocal and symphonic Poem,
the composer came up with the cycle My Father Is a Peasant for tenor, baritone and piano where Yesenin’s images of Russian nature and scenes of country life were expressed by means
of chamber vocal lyric music.
Wooden Russia, a small cantata for tenor, men’s choir and orchestra was composed in 1964 and had an epigraph taken from Yesenin’s verses “Russia, my wooden Russia!”. The poet’s four
poems recreate an image of old patriarchal Russia while the last lines of the final movement herald its tragic demise.
Georgy Sviridov’s cantatas set to the poetry of Sergei Yesenin are performed by the Republican Academic Choir led by Alexander Yurlov and such luminaries of domestic conducting art as Yuri Temirkanov and Gennady Rozhdestvensky. The chamber cycle is sung by Alexei Maslennikov, an outstanding interpreter of Sviridov’s music who is accompanied by the author. |
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ID: MELCD1001828 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: Orchestral WorksPodkolekce: Orchestr In the first half of the 19th century, Russian composers began to show an interest for the music of the Orient. Then, at the very beginning of the century, the Caucasus became open for visits. Not only composers, but also poets and painters were impressed with its exoticism, and the notion "Orient" included not just the Arab East, but the Caucasus as well. In terms of style, its nature, traditions, music and dances were literally overwhelming. The Caucasus inspired many of the works of the Russian culture of the 19th century. The territorial proximity of the Caucasus to Russia, close associations with the culture and arts of the Caucasus, including the works by Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov, and, mainly, visits of Russian composers such as Mikhail Glinka and Mily Balakirev to the Caucasus - all that were reasons why orientality found its fullest development and expression in the Russian music as compared to the other European music cultures. |
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ID: MELCD1001833 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: Ballet MusicPodkolekce: Orchestr This ballet in four scenes is based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Ice Maiden”. It was first performed at the Paris Opera in 1928 and this performance was recorded in 1966.
Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Ice Maiden was taken as a basis for the libretto of Le baiser de la fée - a ballet that was ordered by Ida Rubinstein for her seasons. However, Stravinsky admitted that only some motifs were left from the Danish writer's fairy tale. They are the mother and her child lost in the blizzard, the Fairy who marked the child with her magic kiss and who then took him away to her miraculous world of eternal life. Using some themes from the pieces by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky dedicated to the great Russian composer his score and supposed that the image of the Fairy and her magical kiss is very actual, because each of Tchaikovsky's creations was sealed with the muse's kiss. |
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ID: MELCD1001175 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: Ballet MusicPodkolekce: Orchestr |
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ID: MELCD1000933 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: SymphonyPodkolekce: Orchestr Glazunov:
Symphony No. 4 in E flat major, Op. 48
Ovsyaniko-Kulikovsky:
Symphony No. 21 in G minor
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Eevgeny Mravinsky |
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ID: MELCD1000568 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: Dance MusicPodkolekce: Orchestr (1, 3, 4, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13) - Pavel Kogan: USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra
(2, 5, 6, 11) - Gennady Rozhdestvensky: All-Union Radio and TV Grand Symphony Orchestra |
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