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ID: MELCD1002089
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Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Piano and Violin
Melodiya presents a unique album of violin sonatas of Edvard Grieg and Ludwig van Beethoven, and a duet for violin and piano of Franz Schubert performed by Kreisler and Rachmaninoff. The recordings were made in the 1928 in the United States.
It is probably difficult to think of another ensemble of the same scale where each of the partners is a great musician who has reached the pinnacle of perfection in his art and a composer with his own unique style.
Beethoven:
Violin Sonata No. 8 in G major, Op. 30 No. 3
Violin Sonata No. 8 in G major, Op. 30 No. 3
Grieg:
Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor, Op. 45
Schubert:
Grand Duo for Violin and Piano in A Major, D574
Fritz Kreisler (violin) & Rachmaninov (piano) |
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ID: MELCD1002100
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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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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ID: MELCD1002207
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano
Firma Melodiya presents recordings of the suites for two pianos from Sergei Prokofiev's ballets. This album is the first original project of Melodiya for the last twenty years that introduces a new generation of Russian music performers (by virtue of circumstances, Firma Melodiya has been re-releasing the recordings made in the former USSR). The piano duet of Lyudmila Berlinskaya and Arthur Ancelle was formed in 2011. They have won acclaim of the public and some leading musical periodicals for their concerts and recordings. Lyudmila Berlinskaya is a representative of a renowned musical dynasty, an Honoured Artist of Russia and grand prix winner of prestigious international competitions. Arthur Ancelle was born in Paris to an artistic family and has given concerts in France and overseas since 13. He is a well-known interpreter of 20th century music and an author of piano arrangements of symphonic works by various composers. This album features his piano transcriptions of two fragments from Romeo and Juliet. The transcriptions for two piano fragments from the ballet Cinderella featured on the album were made by the outstanding contemporary pianist Mikhail Pletnyov. Prokofiev's suites were recorded by Berlinskaya and Ancelle in 2013. |
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ID: MELCD1002212
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Vocal and Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
A strong voice, a bright dramatic gift, a passionate temperament, creative courage and a precise sense of a role - all these virtues are combined by the name of the unique opera singer Hibla Gerzmava, a People’s Artist of Russia and People’s Artist of the Republic of Abkhazia.
Hibla Gerzmava is an opera singer of a world scale, a remarkable actress and versatile musician. In 1994, she graduated from the Moscow Conservatory where she majored in solo singing under professors Irina Maslennikova and Evgenia Arefieva, and completed her post-graduate course under Maslennikova in 1996. Since 1995 Hibla has been a soloist of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre in Moscow, debuting as Musetta in Puccini’s La bohème.
Today, the Russian prima donna is a guest star of the state opera houses of Vienna, Paris, Rome and Bavaria, and of the Metropolitan Opera and Royal Opera House in Covent Garden.
In 2001, Hibla Gerzmava was awarded the national theatre prize The Golden Mask and Casta Diva as the Best Singer for her Lucia in Donizetti’s 'Lucia di Lammermoor'. She is also an owner of the Moscow Prize in the field of literature and arts (2010) and Triumph Award (2011).
The distinguished violinist and conductor Vladimir Spivakov’s versatile talent has been vividly realized in many spheres of social life. In 1979, he co-founded the Moscow Virtuosi chamber orchestra with a group of musicians who shared his views and became its unchallenged artistic director, conductor and soloist. In 2003, Vladimir Spivakov became artistic director and principal conductor of the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia he created, and the president of the Moscow International House of Music.
On the initiative of Vladimir Spivakov, Hibla Gerzmava performed in Svetlanov Hall of the Moscow International House of Music on 14 October 2013, accompanied by the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia. 'Firma Melodiya' presents the program of the concert on this CD, which included both classic and less known Russian overtures, arias and scenes from operas by Mozart, Rossini, Bellini, Donizetti and Verdi.
Arsen Sogomonian, a soloist of the of the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre, and prize laureate of the Moscow International Competition 'Romansiada', also took part at the concert.
Bellini:
Ah! bello a me ritorna (from Norma)
Norma Overture
Donizetti:
Quanto amore (from L'elisir d'amore)
Regnava nel silenzio...Quando rapito in estasi (from Lucia di Lammermoor)
Mozart:
La clemenza di Tito, K621: Overture
Vesperae Solennes de Confessore, K339: Laudate Dominum
Rossini:
Largo al factotum (from Il barbiere di Siviglia)
Il barbiere di Siviglia Overture
Strauss, R:
Morgen, Op. 27 No. 4
Verdi:
Non so le tetre immagini (from Il Corsaro)
Desdemona rea (from Otello)
Mia madre aveva...Piangea cantando...Ave Maria (from Otello)
Hibla Gerzmava (soprano), Arsen Sogomonian (baritone)
Russian National Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Spivakov |
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ID: MELCD1002222
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Piano and Viola
Melodiya presents recordings of the outstanding violist Mikhail Kugel. Mikhail Kugel combined a career as a solo performer with the membership in the celebrated Beethoven Quartet (in its last line-up), was a professor of the Moscow Conservatory, and later on of the Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music and Dance. At present, he teaches at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent in Belgium.Mikhail Kugel has expanded the viol repertoire by making numerous arrangement of music from different eras for the viola. Some of them are featured on this disc.The works for viola and piano were recorded by Mikhail Kugel together with Boris Berezovsky, one of the most in-demand pianists of modern time, a first prize winner of the Tchaikovsky International Competition and an owner of Grammophone, Diapason d’Or, BBC and Echo klassik awards for the best classical recordings.The recordings were made at Kugel’s concerts in 2002 to 2013.
A Leaf from the Album
Boris Berezovsky (piano)
Grand Caprice Forest King, Op. 26
F. Schubert - H.W. Ernst. Arranged for viola by M. Kugel
H.W. Ernst -Variations on "The Last Rose of Summer"arranged for viola by M. Kugel
Glazunov - Elegy, Op. 44
Boris Berezovsky (piano)
Glinka - Viola Sonata in D minor
Boris Berezovsky (piano)
Rubinstein - Viola Sonata in F minor, Op. 49 edited by M. Kugel
Boris Berezovsky (piano)
Stravinsky -Elegy, for solo viola
Mikhail Kugel (viola), Boris Berezovsky (piano) |
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ID: MELCD1002256
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano
Anthology of Piano Music by Russian and Soviet Composers
Part 2 Disc 7: From 1991 to Now
“Russian Piano Music Today: Teachers and Pupils”. This could be an apt title of the next, seventh, volume of the Anthology of 20th Century Russian Piano Music realized by Firma Melodiya jointly with the Tikhon Khrennikov Foundation and the National Foundation of Rightholders Support. The featured compositions reflect the spectrum of piano music in Russia for the last 20 years.
Tolib Shahidi’s works are arguably the brightest ones on the seventh disc. A son of the founder of Tajik professional music Ziyodullo Shahidi and a graduate of Aram Khachaturian’s class at the Moscow Conservatory, Tolib Shahidi has successfully synthesized national cultural features of Tajikistan with the achievements of Russian and European music. His works are now performed in many countries of the world.
Kirill Volkov, Tatiana Chudova and Yuri Vorontsov are representatives of the academic tradition of Russian music. Pupils of the outstanding masters Aram Khachaturian, Tikhon Khrennikov and Evgeny Golubev, they also combine their creative and teaching careers. While Vorontsov’s piece Sirius evokes cosmic associations, the sonatas by Chudova and Volkov are inspired with nature of Russian north.
Music of the new generation of composers is represented with the works by Alexei Sysoyev and Alexei Sergunin. Sysoyev, who began his career as a jazz musician, graduated from the Moscow Conservatory under Tatiana Chudova. Sergunin is also a Moscow Conservatory graduate who studied piano under Ksenia Knorre and composition under Alexander Tchaikovsky. Today, both of the young musicians take part in the most topical events of Russian music life.
Contemporary piano music is performed by young pianists, worthy representatives of the Russian performing school such as Ekaterina Mechetina, Irina Bogdanova, Lukas Geniušas, Nikita Mndoyants, Yuri Favorin and Fyodor Amirov. The last three are also professional composers who give preference to contemporary music in their programmes.
Chudova:
Sonata (1966) -N. Mnydoyants (piano)
Sergunin:
Origami -L. Geniusas (piano)
Shakhidi:
Two pieces - E. Mechetina (piano)
Sysoyev:
Antiphases -Y. Favorin (piano)
Volkov:
Sonata No. 5 - dedicated to pilgrims, travellers and wanderers of Russian North - I. Bogdanova (piano)
Vorontzov:
Sirius - F. Amirov (piano) |
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ID: MELCD1002273
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Cello Collection
Subcollection: Piano and Cello
Firma Melodiya presents a solo album of one of the leading Rusuan cellists of today Alexander Rudin. Professor of the Moscow Conservatory, Alexander Rudin is among the best known performers, conductors and educationists of Europe. What makes the featured recordings particularly attractive is that they were made at the initial stage of the cellists performing career in 1978 to 1983. A student of the Gnessins Music Teachers Institute at the time, Rudin was a prize winner of the Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow, the Bach Competition in Leipzig and the Cassado Competition in Florence and drew attention of professional critics and wide audience. Even then the cellists performing style was notable for the scope and diversity of repertoire the album includes works by Giovanni Valentini, J.S. Bach, Ludwig van Beethoven, Nikolai Myaskovsky and Julius Klengel. The piano part is performed by Lidiya Yevgrafova and Viktor Ginzburg.
(1 - 13) Alexander Rudin (cello)
J.S. Bach, - Viola da Gamba Sonata No. 2 in D major, BWV1028
L. van Beethoven - Variations (7) on "Bei Männern, welche Liebe fühlen", for Cello and Piano, WoO 46 - Lidiya Yevgrafova (piano)
Klengel - Scherzo for cello and piano in D minor, Op. 6 - Lidiya Yevgrafova (piano)
Miaskovsky - Cello Sonata No. 1 in D major, Op. 12 - Viсtor Ginzburg (piano)
Valentini, Giuseppe - Cello Sonata in E major - Lidiya Yevgrafova (piano)
Alexander Rudin (cello) |
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ID: MELCD1001981
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Russian Sacred Music
Subcollection: Choir
The name Archimandrite Matfei belongs among the most prominent figures of the Russian Sacred Music tradition. A composer, arranger and professor of the Moscow Ecclesiastical Academy and a member of the Synodal Commission of the Russian Orthodox Church for divine services, for 30 years he headed the choir of the Trinity Lavra of St Sergius that was a centre for religious culture in Russia. |
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ID: MELCD6001356
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Russian Pop music
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