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Shostakovich - Operas: The Nose - The Gamblers, Op. 63 - Gennady Rozhdestvensky

Shostakovich - Operas:  The Nose - The Gamblers, Op. 63 - Gennady Rozhdestvensky
ID: MELCD1001192
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Choir and Orchestra

Recorded in Moscow in 1975

The short “The Gamblers” which was left unfinished in a piano score, is performed here in a version completed by the conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky.

“The Nose” was first performed in 1930 and once again the composer was lambasted for being pretentious and artificial. In recent years “The Nose” has enjoyed a reassessment in revivals in opera houses around the world.

Orchestra and Chorus of the Moscow Chamber Musical Theatre / Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky
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Daniil Shafran (cello) - Boccherini - Chopin - Haydn - J.S. Bach and etc…

Daniil Shafran (cello) - Boccherini - Chopin - Haydn - J.S. Bach and etc…
ID: MELCD1001938
CDs: 5
Type: CD
Subcollection: Cello and Orchestra

Daniil Borisovich Shafran had a creative career of more than 60 years and music journalist Artyom Vagraftik described him as “…a man who was literally chained to his cello and who imagined no life without constant communication with music.”

In this 5 CD collection, he performs works by Bach, Chopin, Rachmaninov, Brahms, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Boccherini, Haydn and Tchaikovsky.


“Paganini of the 21st century,” “a musician … possessing the most melodious sound among all the existing string performers,” “…his art reaches the borders of supernatural” - these are some of enthusiastic epithets that domestic and foreign music critics endowed Daniil Borisovich Shafran. His creative career of more than 60 years made up a whole era in the Russian and world performing arts of the 20th century. “That was a musician you could take to paint a portrait of not just a genuine intellectual of St. Petersburg or the last romantic, but also a workaholic in the finest sense of the word - a man who was literally chained to his cello and who imagined no life without constant communication with music,” wrote music journalist Artyom Vagraftik about Daniil Shafran.


CD 1
Daniil Shafran, cello
CD 2
Daniil Shafran, cello
Anton Ginsburg, piano
CD 3
Daniil Shafran, cello
Felix Gotlib, piano
Dmitri Shostakovich, piano
CD 4
Daniil Shafran, cello
Anton Ginsburg, piano
USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra - Gennady Rozhdestvensky
CD 5
Daniil Shafran, cello
Academic Symphony Orchestra of Leningrad State Philharmonic Society - Arvid Jansons
USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra - Neeme Järvi:
Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow State Philharmonic Society - Kirill Kondrashin

Total time: 343.38
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D. Shostakovich - Katerina Ismailova - An Opera in 4 acts and 9 scenes Op. 29/114

D. Shostakovich - Katerina Ismailova - An Opera in 4 acts and 9 scenes Op. 29/114
ID: MELCD1002050
CDs: 3
Type: CD
Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Choir and Orchestra

E. Andreyeva, E. Bulavin & V. Radziyevsky
Choir & Orchestra of the Moscow State, Gennady Provatorov

It is hard to name another opera with a fate as complicated and dramatic as that of its heroine. Shostakovich came up with the idea of composing an opera based on Nikolai Leskov’s novel Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District, perhaps the most outright and cruel work of the Russian classical literature, in the early 1930s. Finished in 1932, Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk District (as the opera was originally titled) was staged two years later in Leningrad and then in Moscow caused a heated controversy.

However, the opera was condemned after Stalin saw it. “A mess instead of music” - that was a title of a scathing article in the Pravda in January 1936. It marked the beginning of unfounded criticism at Shostakovich for “formalism”, while Lady Macbeth was banned from the stage. The ban was lifted as late as in the early 1960s when Shostakovich had realized the second edition of the opera under the name of Katerina Izmailova. The opera was staged in Moscow and later it took the place it deserved in Russian and foreign theatres. Melodiya presents a historically first recording of Shostakovich’s opera made at the Moscow Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre in 1964 soon after the premiere of the second edition. The premiere was conducted by a young maestro Gennady Provatorov.

In 1966, the recording was given a Grand Prix du Disquein France.
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RICHTER - THE 100th - ANNIVERSARY EDITION

RICHTER - THE  100th - ANNIVERSARY EDITION
ID: MELCD1002270
CDs: 50
Type: CD
Collection: Piano Concerto
Subcollection: Piano

For the 100th anniversary of Sviatoslav Richter, Firma Melodiya presents its
arguably biggest project in its semicentennial history.
The name of Sviatoslav Richter is inscribed in gold in the history of music.
He was not just “more than a pianist,” he was even more than a musician. An owner
of composing, conducting, artistic, directing and acting gifts, a connoisseur of literature,
arts and philosophy, with a will of iron he made all his gifts serve the art of
pianism. An “artist of planetary scale,” as of the critics put it, Richter was like that in
everything - in his unbounded repertoire that he never stopped replenishing until
his last years, in his priestly frenzy of hours-long rehearsals, in the geography and
number of performances, - over 3 500 concerts in 770 places of the world for 55
years of his musical career! (“He was somewhat fathomless, Richter,” said one of his
famous colleagues). However, after he conquered the world (almost literally), he remained
indifferent to ovation and eulogies of the press, painfully experienced each
of the “defects” he noticed in his performance, and at the end of his way confessed
before the journalist Bruno Monsaingeon: “I don’t like myself.”
Of course we inherited numerous recordings from Sviatoslav Richter, live
and studio ones (although he preferred the former to the latter). Hundreds of records
and CDs have been released on domestic and foreign labels (the first of them,
gramophone ones, appeared in the 1940’s while some others became available as
late as in this century). However, even the existing body of recordings captures
neither his complete repertoire nor the entire essence of Richter’s
pieces could sound differently over the years, or even over a day!
And now, Firma Melodiya that recently marked its 50th birthday makes a
unique present for both sophisticated experts and a broad circle of music lovers -
a 50-CD set of Sviatoslav Richter’s concert recordings!
It has to be understood that this collection is far from the complete phonographic
legacy of the great musician. Nevertheless, the set includes plenty of
exclusive, previously unreleased recordings that will make the hearts of even
most erudite connoisseurs and collectors rejoice.
Most of the featured recordings are broadcasts from the concerts played in
Moscow in 1962 to 1983. However, the exceptions are of special interest. These are:
• one of the first Sviatoslav Richter’s extant concert programmes -
Schubert’s last sonata and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition (1949);
• recording of the concert with Nina Dorliak in Bucharest, in 1958;
• recordings of “home” rehearsals with Nina Dorliak.
Alexander Scriabin’s Prometheus, on which he plays a “modest” piano
part in an orchestra, is evidence of Richter’s extremely broad musical interests, or
the recordings of J.S. Bach’s ensemble concertos together with students of the
Moscow Conservatory.
Perhaps the listeners will find a number of “repetitive” tracks surprising.
Richter played (and recorded) many works time and again. Some of them allow us
to track the evolution of the pianist’s art, testify to his constant creative search
and dissatisfaction with himself (the interpretations of Berg’s concertos with different
performers, different versions of Schubert’s Sonata No. 6, Beethoven’s Third
Concerto and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition at an interval of ten and twenty
years, respectively). Some other recordings were played in a shorter stretch of
time (Beethoven’s Sonata No. 1, Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 2), or in succession - from
the mid 1970’s. Considering the growing interest of the public, Richter frequently,
fully or partly, repeated his programmes. So, at an interval of one day he played
Mozart’s Concerto No. 18 and Rachmaninoff’s Etudes-tableaux. In those unique
phonographic documents, a keen ear will detect barely perceptible “atmospheric”
changes that captured an inner aura of a certain concert as each of them was a new
test for the pianist in terms uncompromising strictness to himself, a new step on
the way to Absolute Music.

Berg:
Chamber Concerto for Piano and Violin with 13 Wind Instruments
Brahms:
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83
Rhapsody in G minor, Op. 79 No. 2
Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 100
Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108
Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major, Op. 78
Britten:
Piano Concerto, Op. 13
Debussy:
Préludes - Book 2 (12, complete)
Cloches à travers les feuilles (No. 1 from Images pour piano - Book 2)
Dvorak:
Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 33
Franck, C:
Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 14
Violin Sonata in A major
Liszt:
Erlkönig (No. 4 from Zwölf Lieder von Franz Schubert, S558)
Concerto pathétique for Piano and Orchestra, S365a
Mendelssohn:
Variations sérieuses in D minor Op. 54
Mozart:
Piano Concerto No. 22 in E flat major, K482
Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major, K595
Mussorgsky:
Pictures at an Exhibition (piano version)
Prokofiev:
Piano Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 14
Piano Sonata No. 4 in C minor, Op. 29
Piano Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82
Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80
Piano Concerto No. 5 in G major, Op. 55
Ravel:
Valses nobles et sentimentales
Piano Trio in A minor
Schubert:
Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D960
Piano Sonata No. 6 in E minor, D566
Piano Sonata No. 13 in A major, D664
Piano Sonata No. 11 in F minor, D625
Klavierstücke (3), D946
Schumann:
Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54
Scriabin:
Piano Sonata No. 7, Op. 64 'White Mass'
Prometheus (The Poem of Fire), Op. 60
Shostakovich:
Violin Sonata, Op. 134
Viola Sonata, Op. 147
Wagner:
Elegy in A flat
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Geniuses - Vladimir Sofronitsky - Andrei Konchalovsky

Geniuses - Vladimir Sofronitsky - Andrei Konchalovsky
ID: MELCD1002312
CDs: 6
Type:
Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano

plus:
Disc 6 (DVD)
“Geniuses: Vladimir Sofronitsky,”
a film by Andrei Konchalovsky (2007, 44 min.)
Screenplay by Andrei Konchalovsky
Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky
Directors of photography: Igor Ryabtsev, Dmitri Koval, Igor Skromny

Firma Melodiya and the Andrei Konchalovsky Foundation present a unique set dedicated to the outstanding Russian pianist of the 20th century Vladimir Sofronitsky. Sofronitsky who tolerated no clichés strongly objected to the reputation of a Scriabinist although he found his own inimitable key to Scriabin's music at an early age. Those who had a chance to hear the composer play said that only Sofronitsky was congenial to Scriabin's interpretations. With a hostile attitude to studio work, the pianist felt truly free only in concert. He was able to perform the same piece differently even just a few days later. Every time Sofronitsky played, he re-experienced music, let it through himself as if he confessed before the audience. Perhaps that was the main secret of his magical impact. Many of the remaining concert recordings still preserve that sensation. Five of six discs include recordings made at Vladimir Sofronitsky's recitals in 1951 to 1960, including works of Scriabin, Schumann, Chopin, Schubert, Liszt, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Lyadov, Debussy, Prokofiev and Shostakovich. The sixth disc of the set includes a documentary on Vladimir Sofronitsky filmed by the outstanding contemporary director Andrei Konchalovsky.

Recording information: The Scriabin Memorial Museum (01/08/1960/02/02/1960); The Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory (01/08/1960/02/02/1960); The Scriabin Memorial Museum (05/13/1960); The Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory (05/13/1960); The Scriabin Memorial Museum (06/08/1958); The Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory (06/08/1958); The Scriabin Memorial Museum (11/18/1959); The Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory (11/18/1959); The Scriabin Memorial Museum (11/26/1951); The Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory (11/26/1951); The Scriabin Memorial Museum (1955); The Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory (1955).
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Treasures of World Music performed by Dmitri Kitayenko

Treasures of World Music performed by Dmitri Kitayenko
ID: MELCD1002320
CDs: 6
Type: CD
Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra

Firma Melodiya presents a boxed set dedicated to the 75th anniversary of one of the outstanding contemporary Russian conductors, Dmitri Kitayenko.

“Today he can be undoubtedly considered one of the five or six best conductors of the world. This phenomenon is out of the ordinary”, Herbert von Karajan wrote about Kitayenko after the young Soviet conductor gave a brilliant performance at the international competition in Vienna, receiving the second prize and winning the hearts of the Viennese audience and media. Evgeny Svetlanov also greeted his younger colleague on the pages of the Soviet press as a talented and promising conductor.

A graduate of the Leningrad Conservatory who also completed a postgraduate course at the Moscow Conservatory and a training course at the Vienna Academy of Music, Dmitri Kitayenko had a brilliant start to his conducting career. From 1976 to 1990 he headed the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Philharmonic Society. Under his leadership the celebrated orchestra substantially expanded its repertoire and actively toured.

During recent decades, the conductor worked with the orchestras of Western Europe, Japan, South Korea and the United States and regularly recorded.

This 6 CD set includes recordings made by Dmitri Kitayenko in the studio and in the concert hall between 1975 and 1987 with the orchestra of the Moscow Philharmonic Society and the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra. The repertoire included showcases the conductor’s stylistic diversity and highest mastery.

These recordings will be of interest to those who remembers Kitayenko’s performances of the past years and to a new generation of listeners as well.

Brahms -Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45
Corelli -Suite for Strings
Donizetti - Miserere
Grieg - Holberg Suite, Op. 40
Prokofiev - Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 'Classical'
Puccini - Messa di Gloria
Rachmaninov - The Bells, Op. 35
Respighi - Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite No. 3, P. 172
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 10 in E minor, Op. 93
R. Strauss - Tanzsuite aus Klavierstücken von François Couperin
Tchaikovsky - Concert Fantasy, Op. 56

Choir of the Latvian Philharmonic Society, The State Republican A Yurlov Russian Choir, Latvian SSR State Academic Choir, Choir of the USSR Bolshoi Theatre, Dmitri Kitayenko
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FROM THE HISTORY OF THE TCHAIKOVSKY COMPETITION. PHONODOCUMENTS

FROM THE HISTORY OF THE TCHAIKOVSKY COMPETITION. PHONODOCUMENTS
ID: MELCD1002349
CDs: 10
Type: CD
Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra

BOX set
Firma Melodiya presents a boxed set titled “International Tchaikovsky Competition. Phonographic Documents (1958-1986)”.
The first ever Soviet music tournament instantly became one of the world’s most prestigious competitions. The piano jury was chaired by Emil Gilels for many years, while David Oistrakh and Mstislav Rostropovich headed the violin and cello juries, respectively. Alexander Sveshnikov, an outstanding choirmaster and chancellor of the Moscow Conservatory, was a chairman of the vocal jury. For the fifty years of its existence, the Tchaikovsky Competition discovered numerous distinguished performers such as Van Cliburn, Vladimir Ashkenasi, Grigory Sokolov, Eliso Virsaladze, John Lill, Michail Pletnev, Viktor Tretiakov, Gidon Kremer, Vladimir Spivakov, Oleg Kagan, Natalia Gutman, Elena Obraztsova, Maria Gulegina, Vladimir Atlantov, Yevgeny Nesterenko and Paata Burchuladze to name but a few. The set captures the brightest moments of eight Tchaikovsky Competitions in all categories. The recordings, including a number of never-before-released ones, were made immediately during the competition auditions
and at the prize-winners’ recitals. The release is dedicated to the 175th anniversary of the great Russian composer.
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András Schiff, piano - From the V International Tchaikovsky Competition (Live)

András Schiff, piano - From the V International Tchaikovsky Competition (Live)
ID: MELCD1002386
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Collection: Piano Concerto
Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra

CD1 - András Schiff, piano
CD2 - A. Schiff, piano / Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra - D. Kitayenko

Firma Melodiya presents never-before-released recordings of András Schiff made at the V Tchaikovsky International Competition in 1974.

One of the most prominent pianists of modern times, András Schiff is nevertheless does not belong to the so-called competition format. The musician who earned the pedestal of philosopher pianist, “a representative of intellectual musical tradition in its high apprehension,” has never had virtuosity, sonic lustre and visual artistry in his sphere of interests.

However, the live recordings of the then 21-year-old Hungarian are of unquestionable interest. Soviet music critic Leonid Gakkel described his impressions of Schiff’s performance in the following way: “From his very first note at the competition Schiff struck me with the vigour of his performance, and that was vigour of the highest festivity… What a touch on the piano, what a charge of energy, what burning fingers! Ultimate activity of a creating spirit at each moment of playing…”

At the competition, Schiff played piano works by Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Prokofiev and Shostakovich, variation cycles and concertos by Tchaikovsky and Brahms. In the opinion of Yevgeny Malinin, a competent judge and professor of the Moscow Conservatory, Schiff “read music without a drop of wilfulness: he lived in and with it.” The panel gave him only the fourth prize (“incomplete correspondence” with general virtuosity and competition standards had an impact). However, it wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that it was the Tchaikovsky Competition that brought the first significant success and international repute to the outstanding pianist.
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Cinemaphonia - The New Russian Quartet

Cinemaphonia - The New Russian Quartet
ID: MELCD1002407
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Quartet

The New Russian Quartet:
Julia Igonina, violin
Elena Kharitonova, violin
Alexey Steblev, viola
Mikhail Rudoy, cello
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D. SHOSTAKOVICH - All Symphonies - Symphonies Nos. 1-15 (complete)

D. SHOSTAKOVICH - All Symphonies - Symphonies Nos. 1-15 (complete)
ID: MELCD1002431
CDs: 10
Type: CD
Collection: Symphony
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra

Dmitri Shostakovich’s creations constitute a musical chronicle of the epoch. What we hear in his music is something that continues to alarm minds and souls of millions of people. His fifteen symphonies captured not only the great musician’s evolution - as if the entire 20th century with its great discoveries and perturbations, unprecedented progress and terrifying catastrophes breathes in their scores. These are unique documents of human spirit that will stay with us for good to tell us about their time, to stir heated theoretical and aesthetic disputes, to give us a reason for very different interpretations, and to command our admiration or sharp rejection. Whatever the case may be, they will never find an indifferent listener.
Firma Melodiya is preparing a number of large-scale projects for the Shostakovich anniversary year. We present the first of them - a set of the composer’s symphonies performed by the greatest masters of the Soviet conducting school and brightest interpreters of Shostakovich’s music - Evgeny Mravinsky, Kirill Kondrashin, Evgeny Svetlanov and Gennady Rozhdestvensky. The set also includes recordings made by Konstantin Ivanov, a predecessor of Evgeny Svetlanov as chief conductor of the country’s principal orchestra - the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra; Yuri Temirkanov, a successor of Evgeny Mravinsky, a great representative of the St. Petersburg conducting school; Rudolf Barshai, a founder of the first Soviet chamber orchestra and the one who inspired Shostakovich’s Fourteenth Symphony; and Maxim Shostakovich, the composer’s son who presented the world premiere of the last, Fifteenth Symphony.
The live and studio recordings of Shostakovich’s symphonies were made by Firma Melodiya from 1961 to 1984. The studio recording is peculiar for the fact it was realized shortly after the world premiere in the presence and under supervision of the composer. An unconfirmed legend among the former members of the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra has it that the recording was to be erased together with the other ones after Maxim Shostakovich defected from the Soviet Union. However, it survived among the Melodiya phonograms.
The edition comprises a lidded hard box made from lined cardboard, 9 digipacks and a thick hardcover booklet in English and Russian.

CD 1 - Symphonies Nos. 1-3
CD 2 - Symphony No. 4
CD 3 - Symphonies Nos. 5 - 6
CD 4 - Symphony No. 7
CD 5 - Symphony No. 8
CD 6 - Symphonies Nos. 9 - 10
CD 7, CD 8 - Symphonies Nos. 11 - 13
CD 9 - Symphony No. 14
CD 10 - Symphony No. 15
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