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ID: MELCD1001811
CDs: 3
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
Total time : CD 1 - 72:04 / CD 2 - 64:35 / CD - 3 44:30
Rimma Glushkova, soprano
Pyotr Gluboky, baritone
Galina Molodtsova, soprano
Vladimir Makhov, tenor
Sergei Stukachev, bass-baritone
Lev Eliseev, tenor
Vladimir Matorin, bass
Andrei Sokolov, character tenor
Victor Rybinsky, baritone |
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ID: MELCD1002046
CDs: 3
Type: CD
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Collection: Symphony
Subcollection: Orchestra
The composer’s entire symphonic legacy is presented in this 3 CD box. His two symphonies are traditional four-movement cycles in the vein of Borodin’s and Balakirev’s epic compositions. Also, there are a few one-movement pieces: an early Ballade, a symphonic, a picturesque oriental symphonic poem Hashish, and Solemn Overture on Russian Themes,one of Lyapunov’s most popular works, which earned an admiring response of his teacher Mily Balakirev. Lyapunov’s works are performed by the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra and its leader Evgeny Svetlanov.
Lyapunov:
Symphony No. 1 in B minor, Op. 12
USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov
Symphony No. 2 in B minor, Op. 66
USSR Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Algi Ziuraitis
Hashish - symphonic poem for big orchestra, Op. 53
USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov
Solemn Overture on Russian Themes
USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov
Ballad for big orchestra, Op. 2
USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov
Polonaise
USSR Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Algi Ziuraitis
Zelazowa Wola, Op. 37
USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov |
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ID: MELCD1002080
CDs: 3
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera Collection
It took Borodin nineteen years to compose this opera based on the old Russian epic poem The Tale of Igor’s Campaign and also incorporating material from other sources. Eternally busy, the author combined composing with a chair in chemistry and active social life and never finished the work.
Prince Igor reached us thanks to the effort of the composer’s friends Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov and Alexander Glazunov who managed to complete Borodin’s masterpiece.
Ivan Petrov (Prince Igor), Tatiana Tugarinova (Yaroslavna), Elena Obraztsova (Konchakovna), Margarita Miglau (Polovtsian Girl), Vladimir Atlantov (Vladimir), Konstantin Baskov (Eroshka), Alexander Laptev (Ovlur), Artur Eisen (Prince Galitsky), Valery Yaroslavtsev (Skula), Alexander Vedernikov (Khan Konchak)
Choir & Orchestra State Academic Bolshoi Theatre, Mark Ermler |
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ID: MELCD1002120
CDs: 3
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Opera
Soloists: Nikolai Gres, Tamara Yanko, Tamara Antipova, Nikolai Panchekhin, Antonina Kleshchyova, Lyudmila Gelovani, Gennady Troitsky, Daniil Demianov, Nikolai Timchenko, Mikhail Kiselyov, Tatiana Tugarinova, Mechislav Shchavinski, Leonid Neverov, Vladimir Zakharov, Boris Dobrin, Miroslav Markov, Nikolai Brilling, Antonina Savosina, Tamara Medvedeva, Nina Kulagina, Alexander Tikhonov, Ivan Kartavenko, Alexei Stepanov, Georgy Ostrovsky
All-Union Radio Choir, All-Union Symphony Orchestra, Mikhail Zhukov
Firma Melodiya presents a recording of one of Sergey Prokofiev’s least frequently performed operas, Semyon Kotko. It was the first opera Prokofiev composed after he returned to the Soviet Union. It took him a long time to find a source for the plot. “I wanted to have living people with their passions, love, hate, joy and sorrow naturally ensuing from the new conditions”, the composer remembered. Prokofiev eventually chose a novel titled “I, Son of Working People” by Valentin Katayev who agreed to rework it into an opera libretto. Vsevolod Meyerhold, a director, old friend and companion, was supposed to stage the new opera but he fell victim to the Stalinist terror.
The opera was premiered in 1940 in Moscow and, as was the case with other outstanding works of that time, was a great success with the public and severely criticized ‘from above’. Even today, bright and figurative music of Semyon Kotko, with its genuinely Gogol-esque humour and genre scenes from everyday life of a Ukrainian village, neat descriptions of the characters, passionate dramatism and monumental chorus scenes, cannot leave a keen listener indifferent.
The opera Semyon Kotko was recorded in 1960 by soloists of the Moscow opera theatres and the All-Union Radio Choir and Orchestra conducted by Mikhail Zhukov. This remarkable musician was taught by Nikolai Golovanov and Konstantin Stanislavsky. The latter acknowledged Zhukov as an “exemplary music director who was able to decrypt the life of human spirit hidden in the score and explain it to an actor”. Zhukov conducted at the premiere of Semyon Kotko at the Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Music Theatre, and its recording became the conductor’s last work. |
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ID: MELCD1002234
CDs: 3
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano
Firma Melodiya presents a set of romantic piano music performed by Vazgen Vartanian.
Vazgen Vartanian is one of the brightest representatives of the new generation of the Russian pianistic school. A graduate of the Moscow Conservatory, he has also studied at the Julliard School in New York where he was conferred the degree of Master of Fine Arts.
At different times, Vartanian was a pupil of such famous masters as Lev Vlassenko, Dmitri Sakharov, Andrey Pisarev and Jerome Lowenthal.
The geography of the pianist’s concerts is vast - he has played at some of the best venues of the world, including Lincoln Center in New York, USA, the Tonhalle in Zurich, Switzerland, the Verdi Milan Conservatoire in Italy, the Seoul Arts Centre in South Korea, and others.
This release features three concert programmes by Vazgen Vartanian, performed at the Big and Small Halls of the Moscow Conservatory, as well as at the concert hall of the Russian Gnessin Music Academy in 2010 and 2011, and dedicated to the 200th anniversaries of three great composers of the romantic period - Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann and Franz Liszt.
Chopin:
Ballades Nos. 1-4
Scherzi Nos. 1-4
Liszt:
Réminiscences de "Don Juan" (after Mozart), S. 418
Nuages gris, S199
Benediction de Dieu dans la solitude (Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S. 173 No. 3)
Consolation, S. 172 No. 3 in D flat major
Sonetto 104 del Petrarca (Années de pèlerinage II, S. 161 No. 5)
Après une lecture du Dante, fantasia quasi sonata (Années de pèlerinage II, S. 161 No. 7)
Vallée d'Obermann (Années de pèlerinage I, S. 160 No. 6)
Schumann:
Blumenstück, Op. 19
Études symphoniques, Op. 13
Fantasiestücke, Op. 111
Romances (3), Op. 28
Vazgen Vartanian (piano) |
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ID: MELCD1002268
CDs: 3
Type: CD
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Collection: Symphony
Subcollection: Orchestra
Firma Melodiya presents a set of selected symphonies by Nikolai Myaskovsky.
This composer’s music is not widely popular today, but he belongs in the group of Russia’s brightest music talents of the first half of the 20th century. His music organically combines old and new, traditions of classical music culture and keenness of expressionism, high tragedy of Beethoven and Tchaikovsky and boldness of avant-garde music. Dmitri Shostakovich considered Mayskovsky “the major symphonist after Mahler”, and Sergei Prokofiev wrote that Myaskovsky “was somewhat more a philosopher - his music is wise, passionate, gloomy and self-absorbed”.
Symphony was the most important genre to the composer. His twenty-seven symphonies, composed over a 40 year period, are a sort of personal diary, reflecting the complicated and winding path of his artistic evolution. At the same time, they are a music chronicle of the age, a response of the big artist to the most significant historic and cultural events of the time.
The set includes six symphonies from Myaskovsky’s later period (1935 to 1950) - Nos 16, 17, 21, 22, 25 and 27 - performed by the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra conducted by the outstanding Evgeny Svetlanov (the only conductor in the world to record all of Myaskovsky’s symphonies) and his predecessor in the State Orchestra, Konstantin Ivanov, one of the major representatives of the Soviet conducting school.
Miaskovsky:
Symphony No. 16 in F major, Op.39 - Konstantin Ivanov, conductor
Symphony No. 17 in G sharp minor, Op. 41 - Evgeny Svetlanov, conductor
Symphony No. 21 in F sharp minor, Op. 51 -Konstantin Ivanov, conductor
Symphony No. 22 in B minor, Op. 54 'Symphony-Ballad ' - Evgeny Svetlanov, conductor
Symphony No. 25 in D flat major, Op. 69 - Evgeny Svetlanov, conductor
Symphony No. 27 in C minor, Op. 85 - Evgeny Svetlanov, conductor
USSR State Symphony Orchestra |
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ID: MELCD1002050
CDs: 3
Type: CD
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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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ID: MELCD1001979
CDs: 3
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
This historic recording was made in 1952 and was one of the best recordings put on tape by the outstanding music director Boris Pokrovsky. The artists were awarded the Stalin Prize of the First Degree, one of the most honourable decorations which was later given the same status as the USSR State Prize.
Georgy Nelepp (Sadko), Vera Davydova (Lyubava), Elizaveta Shumskaya (Volkhova), Elizaveta Antonova (Nezhata), Pavel Lisitsian (The Venetian Guest), Ivan Kozlovsky (The Indian Guest), Mark Reizen (The Varangian Guest), Alexander Peregudov (Sopel), Sergei Koltypin (Duda), Tikhon Chernyakov (First Father Superior), Stephan Nikolau (Second Father Superior)
Orchestra and chorus of the Bolshoi Theatre, Nikolai Golovanov |
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ID: MELCD1002078
CDs: 4
Type: CD
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Collection: Piano Concerto
Subcollection: Piano
Melodiya presents a 4 CD set of recordings by pianist Grigory Sokolov. One of the best contemporary representatives of the St. Petersburg piano school, Sokolov is now well known in Russia and beyond. He tours around the globe delighting the audiences of the old and new worlds. Sokolov is a master of now rare “intellectual” pianism. However, unlike the great piano intellectual of the 20th century Glenn Gould, Sokolov prefers live concerts to studio work. “The biggest chasm is the one between a microphone and an individual,” the musician believes.
CD 1
Ludwig van Beethoven
Variations (33) for Piano on a Waltz by Diabelli in C major, Op. 120
CD 2
F. F. Chopin, Etudes (12) for Piano, Op. 25
J. Brahms
Intermezzi (3) for piano, Op. 117
Rhapsodies (2) for piano, Op. 79
CD 3
Robert Schumann
Fantasia in C major, Op. 17
Sonata for Piano no 2 in G minor, Op. 22
CD 4
Camille Saint-Saëns
Concerto for Piano no 2 in G minor, Op. 22
P.I. Tchaikovsky
Concerto for Piano no 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23
Total Time: 59:09 |
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ID: MELCD1002210
CDs: 4
Type: CD
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Collection: Piano Concerto
Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra
Box set
The recordings were made in 1946 to 1959.
Firma Melodiya presents a set of rare recordings by Emil Gilels.
“The world knows many talented pianists and a few great masters who tower above them all. Emil Gilels is one of them.”
“The titans of piano like Gilels are borne once in a century.” Those were the kind of reviews that accompanied Gilels throughout his pianistic career beginning with his victory at the all-union competition in 1933 in Moscow. However, this set will open new sides to Gilels’s repertoire even to those who is well acquainted with his recordings.
We will hear Emil Gilels as an ensemble musician.
The titan of piano, who roused the audiences and orchestras, was able to turn into a fine chamber musician, a wonderful ensemble partner as though he dissolved his brightest individuality in a piece he performed.
The more so because Gilels’s partners were truly brilliant soloists such as Yakov Flier and Yakov Zak (piano), Elizaveta Gilels (violin), musicians from the Beethoven Quartet Dmitri Tsyganov (violin), Vadim Borisovsky (viola) and Sergei Shirinsky (cello).
The set features compositions from various periods. Along with well-know piano and chamber ensembles, it includes recordings of rarely performed works by Mozart arranged by Busoni, Saint-Saëns and Cui. But the previously unreleased recordings by Emil Gilels deserve a special mention. They are Suite No. 2 for piano by Rachmaninoff, Rondo four hands by Chopin, Concerto pathétique by Liszt, a suite for two pianos by Leonid Nikolayev and a piano trio by Andrei Babayev.
Babayev -Trio for piano violin and cello in C sharp minor
Beethoven -Horn Sonata in F major, Op. 17
Brahms -Variations on a theme by Haydn for two pianos, Op. 56b 'St Anthony Variations' / Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor, Op. 25
Chopin - Rondo in C major for two pianos, Op. 73
Cui - Pieces for two pianos, Op. 69
Haydn -Piano Trio No. 31 in G major, Hob.XV:32
Liszt - Concerto pathétique in E minor for two pianos, S258
Mozart - Die Zauberflöte, K620: Overture / Fantasia in F minor for a mechanical organ, K608 / Piano Concerto No. 19 in F major, K459 / Fugue for 2 Pianos (K426) / Concerto for 2 Pianos and Orchestra No. 10 in E flat, K365
L. Nikolayev - Suite for two pianos in B minor, Op. 13
Rachmaninov - Suite No. 2 for Two Pianos, Op. 17
Saint-Saëns - Variations on a theme by Beethoven, Op. 35
Emil Gilels (piano) |
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