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ID: MELCD1002202 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Choir and OrchestraFor the 15th anniversary of the death of the outstanding Russian composer Georgy Sviridov, Firma Melodiya presents an album of his best known works from different years.
His creative work was uncommon for 20th century music - he found his style remained inside the classical tradition without breaking it. No matter what he composed for - voice, choir or orchestra - his music went straight to the heart, evoking a sensitive listener’s keen response, be it a sophisticated music lover or a dilettante.
Sviridov’s music revives and continues the best aspects of the Russian music tradition. It is no mere chance that his best known compositions are linked with the name of Alexander Pushkin. These are the ones featured on this album.
The score to the motion picture The Blizzard, after Pushkin’s novel, was composed in 1964. It has outlived the film, becoming a self-sufficient and incredibly popular symphonic piece. Pushkin’s Garland for soloists, choir and instrumental ensemble became the composer’s offering for the poet’s 180th anniversary. This choir cycle opened a new page in Sviridov’s creative path, anticipating his late vocal opuses.
Sviridov's works are performed by the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Fedoseyev, a recognized interpreter of the composer’s music, and the remarkable Moscow Chamber Choir under Vladimir Minin.
Sviridov:
Pushkin's Garland - concerto for chorus
A. Vedernikov & N. Gerasimova
The Moscow Chamber Choir & The Chamber Ensemble of the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Minin
Snow-Storm, 9 orchestral illustrations after Pushkin's story
The Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Fedoseyev |
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ID: MELCD1002224 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Baroque Subcollection: Piano and OrchestraFirma Melodiya presents recordings of J S Bach’s works performed by Emil Gilels.
This disc continues the series of recordings made by the great pianist. However, these recordings suggest a different view on Gilels’ performing art.
Emil Gilels entered the music life of the USSR as a virtuoso in the best, romantic sense of the word. His inspired artistry always produced a magnetic effect on the audience. He conquered the world with his performances of Beethoven’s sonatas, Mozart’s works in Salzburg, and interpretations of Tchaikovsky’s and Rachmaninov’s concertos. It was difficult to assume that a well-established stereotype of romantic pianism hid an inspired and profound interpreter of Bach’s music.
Johann Sebastian Bach was never at the centre of Gilels’ repertoire. They were more like individual pieces, but that was exactly what made them so unexpected at his concerts. Nevertheless, he kept revisiting some of them time and again.
This disc features recordings made in 1948 to 1968. Not claiming to be authentic and at the same time not falling into excessive romanticism, Emil Gilels shapes his own unique vision of the great cantor’s music world.
J.S. Bach:
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 in D major, BWV1050
Elizaveta Gilels (violin) & Nikolai Kharkovsky (flute)
The USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Kondrashin
Concerto for Two Keyboards in C major, BWV1061
with Yakov Zak (piano)
The USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Kondrashin
Partita No. 1 in B flat major, BWV825
Prelude & Fugue Book 1 No. 10 in E minor, BWV855: Prelude
arr. Alexander Siloti
Prelude and Fugue in D Major (Bach BWV532) Transcription Busoni
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Emil Gilels (piano) |
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ID: MELCD1002221 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Violin Concerto Subcollection: Violin and OrchestraFirma Melodiya presents an album of the remarkable violinist Liana Isakadze.
At the age of nine, while a pupil of the Tbilisi music school for gifted children, Liana Isakadze performed with a symphony orchestra for the first time, received first prize at the Trans-Caucasian Competition of Violinists at twelve, and two years later the second prize at the All-Union Competition of Performing Musicians in Moscow where she was allowed to participate despite her young age.
She was then admitted to the Moscow Conservatory without examinations, where she studied under David Oistrakh. Isakadze was awarded a Grand Prix of the at the Marguerite Long and Jacques Thibaud International Competition in Paris in 1965, the first prize at the Jean Sibelius International Competition in Helsinki and the third prize at the 4th Tchaikovsky International Competition in Moscow in 1970.
Liana Isakadze’s recordings of the concertos by Jean Sibelius and Arnold Schoenberg, made in the early 1980s with the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra conducted by young maestro Alexander Lazarev (he subsequently headed the Bolshoi Theatre), unveil the brightest features of the violinist’s performing style.
While the first of the concertos is very popular among all famous musicians (the jury of the Sibelius Competition awarded her a special prize for its performance), Schoenberg’s concerto is an example of Liana Isakadze artistic courage - she was and still is the only violinist in this country who included this work in her repertoire.
Schoenberg:
Violin Concerto, Op. 36
Sibelius:
Violin Concerto in D minor, Op. 47
Liana Isakadze (violin)
State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the USSR - Alexander Lazarew |
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ID: MELCD1002262 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Baroque Subcollection: Violin and OrchestraFirma Melodiya presents a recording of instrumental concertos by Antonio Vivaldi.
The Italian composer went down in history as an outstanding master of baroque concerto. His legacy includes over 500 concertos (about half of them composed for violin), which combine composing and virtuosic mastership with a truly Italian temperament, strict orderliness of the whole with inexhaustible inspiration and ingenuity. Vivaldi adopted a three-movement model of concerto, but even his most conventionally built works almost always conceal a surprise - an unusual structure of a movement, sudden modulation, a striking harmonic turn, and play of Forte and Piano shades. Just as it was the case with Bach, Vivaldi was sunk into oblivion for almost two centuries, and only in the 20th century his music came out to the foreground of world culture.
Vivaldi:
Oboe Concerto in A minor, RV461
Concerto for Violin & Viola da gamba, 'La maggiore' RV546
Concerto in E minor, RV 278
Cello Concerto in B minor, RV424
Concerto for Violin & Cello in B flat minor, RV 547
Flute Concerto, Op. 10 No. 2 in G minor, RV 439 'La notte'
Antonio Vivaldi’s concertos are performed by the prominent representatives of domestic music art Oleg Kagan (violin), Natalia Gutman (cello), Evgeny Nepalo (oboe) and Albert Gofman (flute), and conducted by Rudolf Barshai and Lev Markiz, who opened the style of chamber performance of baroque music for the Soviet audience. The Night concerto features an ensemble of soloists of the Moscow Philharmonic Society led by David Oistrakh. |
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ID: MELCD1002293 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Viola Concerto Subcollection: Viola and OrchestraSchnittke:
Passacaglia for large orchestra
Walton:
Viola Concerto
Yuri Bashmet (viola)
Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Philharmonic Society, Dmitri Kitayenko |
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ID: MELCD1000050 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Ballet Music Subcollection: OrchestreRecorded in 1985 |
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ID: MELCD1000715 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Cello Concerto Subcollection: Cello and OrchestraBoccherini:
Cello Concerto No. 9 in B flat major, G 482
Haydn:
Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major, Hob. VIIb:2 (Op. 101)
Tchaikovsky:
Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33
(1 - 7) -Daniil Shafran (cello)
(1-3) - Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra - Arvid Jansons, conductor
(4 - 6) - State Academic Symphony Orchestra of the USSR - Neeme Järvi, conductor
(7) - Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Philharmonic Society - Kirill Kondrashin, conductor |
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ID: MELCD1000713 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Cello Collection Subcollection: CelloBrahms: Cello Sonata No. 1 In E Minor, Op. 38
Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major, Op. 99
Tsintsadze: Five Pieces on Folk Themes for cello and piano
Daniil Shafran (cello), Nina Musinian (piano), Felix Gottlieb (piano) |
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