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ID: GHCD2281_4 CDs: 4 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Legendary Voices Performer: Zara Dolukhanova, Berta Kozel, N. Rozov, Galina Sakharova, Rostislav Dubinsky, Alexander Yeroklin, Valentin Berlinsky, Ivan Kozlovsky, Andrei Ivanov, Georgi Orentlikher, Nina Svetlanova, Alexander Dolukhanian, Anton Ossipovich Bernard, Nadezhda Kazantseva |
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ID: IMLCD077 CDs: 2 Type: CD |
Collection: Opera Collection Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra A Musical Trilogy in 3 parts and 8 scenes
Libretto by A. Wenkstern, based on the trilogy by Aeschylus.
CD1 (64:24)
CD2 (68:44)
Characters and Performers:
Agamemnon, King of Argos - Victor Morozov, bass
Clytemnestra, his wife - Sophia Preobrazhenskaya, mezzo-soprano
Aegisthus, his cousin - Konstantin Laptev, baritone
Orestes, son of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra - Mikhail Dovenman, tenor
Elektra, daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra - Nina Serval, soprano
Pallas Athena - Tatiana Lavrova, soprano
Judge of the Areopagites - Ivan Melentiev, bass
The Leningrad Radio Choir (chorus master Yury Slavnitsky)
The Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Gemal Dalgat
Recording dates: 8 and 15 January, 1958
Bonus track
Part 2. Scene 1
12. Oh, my soul is filled with horror (Clytemnestra)
Sophia Preobrazhenskaya, mezzo-soprano
The Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Edouard Grikurov
Recorded in 1951 |
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ID: MELCD1001240 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Chamber Music Subcollection: Piano and Quartet Typically stirring and passionate Russian sounding performances of these two lyrical and popular pieces. As ever the Moscow String Quartet play with their customary musicianship and brilliance.
Mendelssohn:
Piano Quartet No.3 in B minor, Op.3
Taneyev:
Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 30
Tigran Alikhanov (piano)
Moscow String Quartet |
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ID: MELCD1001931 CDs: 5 Type: CD |
Collection: Violin Concerto Subcollection: Violin and Orchestra "On stage, Oistrakh produces an impression of a colossus. He firmly stands on the ground, he holds his violin proudly, and he creates music that finds expression in an endless stream of beauty and grace", wrote the great violin player Isaac Stern. Among the numerous famous performers the 20th century gave to the world, David Oistrakh ranks especially high. "… one of the really great violinists of our time. Oistrakh is great not because he is a virtuoso, but because he is a genuine, inspired musician," wrote the press during his first coming to the United States in 1955. Oistrakh had to play the very first concert of that tour on the same day with performances of Nathan Milstein and Mischa Elman (Joseph Szigeti played on the same day at another venue in New York). Fritz Kreisler who was in the house expressed his admiration for Oistrakh after the concert. Firma Melodiya presents a set of recordings by the great musician of this country. Oistrakh recorded violin concertos by Bach, Mozart, Viotti, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Dvorak, and Taneyev in the 1950s and 1960s in the prime of his performing career jointly with some of the best conductors of the previous century such as Nikolai Malko, Herbert von Karajan, Alexander Gauk, Kirill Kondrashin and Gennady Rozhdestvensky. The performances of Brahms's and Franck's sonatas by David Oistrakh and Sviatoslav Richter also featured in this set once was unanimously recognized by domestic and foreign audiences as one of the best achievements of the 20th century in the field of chamber music.
CD 1
David Oistrakh, violin
Moscow Philarmonic Orchestra - Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
London Philharmonic Orchestra - Nikolai Malko, conductor
Total time: 77:08
CD 2
David Oistrakh, violin
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra / USSR State Symphony Orchestra - Kirill Kondrashin, conductor
Total time: 70:59
CD 3
David Oistrakh, violin and Sviatoslav Richter, piano
Total time: 72:24
CD 4
David Oistrakh, violin
USSR State Symphony Orchestra - Kirill Kondrashin, conductor
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra - Alexander Gauk, conductor
Total time: 72:44
CD 5
David Oistrakh, violin
Philadelphia Orchestra - Eugene Ormandy
London Philharmonic Orchestra - David Oistrakh, conductor
USSR State Symphony Orchestra - Kirill Kondrashin, conductor
Total time: 69:21 |
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ID: MELCD1002152 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Instrumental Subcollection: Piano and Clarinet Firma Melodiya presents the art of two young soloists - virtuoso clarinetist Ivan Stolbov and pianist Kim Ja Ran (South Korea - Russia). Both musicians are graduates of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, prize-winners of international competitions and active stage performers in Russia and overseas. Ivan Stolbov began to learn music since the age of nine. Now, he is a soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre orchestra and teaches at the St. Petersburg Music College. Among his major achievements are first prizes of the Rimsky-Korsakov International Competition in St. Petersburg, Jeunesses Musicales in Bucharest and the Wind and Percussion Competition in Tokyo. The musician gives open lessons and master classes around the world. Kim Ja Ran , who started to play music when she was four years old, has been a two-time prize-winner of the International Music Competition in Albena, Bulgaria, in the categories of best solo piano performance in 2005 and performance by a piano duo in 2007. Today, she is an artist of Petersburg-Concert. The album features compositions for clarinet and piano by composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Many of the pieces are not that well known to today's Russian listeners. Sergey Taneyev's Canzona, Claude Debussy's Rapsodie, sonatas by Alexander Grechaninov, Francis Poulenc and Paul Hindemith demonstrate extensive performing and expressive skills of the young musicians. The recording was made at a concert of the Mariinsky Theatre in 2012. |
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ID: MELCD1002277 CDs: 2 Type: CD |
Collection: Choral Collection Subcollection: Choir and Orchestra Recorded: 1965
Firma Melodiya presents a recording of Sergei Taneyev’s opera Oresteia, a revived masterpiece of Russian music.
The author worked on the opera for twelve years (1882-1894), in a period when Prince Igor, the Queen of Spades, Iolanta and Mlada were created. However, Oresteia remained a unique phenomenon in history of Russian opera. Sergei Taneyev was the best and favourite pupil of Tchaikovsky and Nikolai Rubinstein, a prominent educator and music theorist who brought up Rachmaninoff, Scriabin and many other famous pupils. Unexpectedly for his friends and peers, he was inspired with the ancient story (Aeschylus’s tetralogy) which met his aesthetic ideals of harmony and perfection.
Taneyev masterfully used a broad arsenal of music and dramatic techniques of the late 19th century - an intricate system of leitmotifs, evolving dramaturgy of operatic scenes, and a combination of freely recitative and arioso fragments. The special part of the chorus reflects the spirit of ancient theatre with bright orchestral bits frequently becoming culminations (the famous entr’acte The Temple of Apollo at Delphi). The opera is full of tragic anticipation of Fate, which makes it close to Tchaikovsky’s symphonism, but a heartwarming finale resolving the conflict is typical for Taneyev’s views thus deviating from Aeschylus’s fatalism. Wisdom and Love conquer the dark forces of revenge, insidiousness and malice - that is the bottom line of this monumental operatic interpretation.
Oresteia did not have a lucky stage life - it has been staged on a small number of occasions. The version of the State Bolshoi Opera and Ballet Theatre of Belarus realized and recorded in the 1960’s is one of the best productions of the opera. That recording is featured in this set. The main parts are performed by the soloists of the Belorussian theatre V. Chernobayev, L. Galushkina, A. Bokov, T. Shimko, I. Dubrovkin and N. Tkachenko. The choir and orchestra are conducted by the People’s Artist of the Belorussian SSR Tatiana Kolomiytseva. |
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ID: MELCD1002291 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Instrumental Subcollection: Piano Anthology of Piano Music by Russian and Soviet Composers
Part 3 Disc 1: Before 1917
This eighth disc of the Anthology of Russian Piano Music is dedicated to the roots of Russian piano school and encompasses the first hundred years of its development in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The acknowledged Russian classical composers Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Taneyev and Lyadov are here (represented with rarely performed works though), along with little known or now completely forgotten composers such as Rubinstein, Rebikov and Arensky.
A unique journey across the pages of lyrical and dramatic traditions of Russian pianism allows us to see how general European trends of piano music were combined with national attributes of domestic culture. Taneyev’s Prelude and Fugue in G sharp minor is a climax of the album - a grandiose polyphonic cycle, one of the peaks of Russian music of the pre-revolution period.
The works of the Russian composers are performed by young pianists - graduates of the Moscow Conservatory and prize-winners of prestigious international competitions, who are worthy representatives of a new generation of Russian music performing school - Vyacheslav Gryaznov, Alexei Chernov, Mikhail Turpanov, Rustam Khanmurzin and Nikita Mndoyants.
Arensky:
Characteristic Pieces (24), Op. 36: Petite Ballade
Characteristic Pieces (24), Op. 36: Élégie
Characteristic Pieces for Piano, Op. 36: Consolation
Characteristic Pieces for Piano, Op. 36: Scherzino
Characteristic Pieces (24), Op. 36: In the Fields
Glinka:
Variations on the song The Nightingale by Alexandr Alabiev in E minor
Souvenir d'une Mazurka in B flat major
Liadov:
Waltz, Op. 57 No. 2
Mazurka in F minor, Op. 57 No. 3
Rebikov:
Waltz in F sharp minor
Christmas tree : Waltz
Rubinstein:
The Russian Dance and Trepak, Op. 82 No. 6
Taneyev:
Prelude and Fugue in G sharp minor, Op. 29
Tchaikovsky:
Scherzo à la Russe, Op. 1 No. 1
Impromptu, Op. 1, No. 2
Chanson triste, Op. 40 No. 2
Vyacheslav Gryaznov (piano), Alexei Chernov (piano), Mikhail Turpanov (piano), Rustam Khanmurzin (piano), Nikita Mndoyants (piano) |
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ID: MELCD1002374 CDs: 2 Type: CD |
Collection: Choral Collection Subcollection: Choir and Orchestra CD 1
S. Taneyev
John of Damascus, cantata for chorus and orchestra, Op. 1 (based on the poem of the same name by A.K. Tolstoy)
1. I. I begin a journey into the unknown. Adagio ma non troppo - 15.36
2. II. But while I sleep with the eternal sleep. Andante sostenuto - 2.31
3. III. On the day when the trump. Fuga. Allegro - 7.13
Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 12
4. I. Allegro molto - 11.43
5. II. Adagio - 13.45
6. III. Scherzo. Vivace - 5.56
7. IV. Finale. Allegro energico - 9.46
Total time: 66.35
Academic Choir of the USSR All-Union Radio (1-3)
USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Evgeny Svetlanov
Recorded in 1991 (1-3), 1988 (4-7).
CD 2
Concert suite for violin and orchestra in G minor, Op. 28
1. I. Prelude. Grave - 8.29
2. II. Gavotte. Allegro moderato - 5.28
3. III. Fairy Tale. Andantino - 9.17
4. IV. Theme and Variations. Andantino - 14.52
5. V. Tarantella. Presto - 6.32
6. Temple of Apollo at Delphi, entr’acte before scene 2, act III of the musical trilogy Oresteia based on the tragedy by Aeschylus - 5.56
Total time: 50.37
Andrey Korsakov, violin (1-5)
USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Evgeny Svetlanov
Recorded: at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory in 1990 (1-5), broadcasted from the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory on December 28, 1984 (6).
John of Damascus, cantata for chorus and orchestra, Op. 1 (based on the poem of the same name by A.K. Tolstoy)
1. I. I begin a journey into the unknown. Adagio ma non troppo - 15.36
2. II. But while I sleep with the eternal sleep. Andante sostenuto - 2.31
3. III. On the day when the trump. Fuga. Allegro - 7.13
Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 12
4. I. Allegro molto - 11.43
5. II. Adagio - 13.45
6. III. Scherzo. Vivace - 5.56
7. IV. Finale. Allegro energico - 9.46
Total time: 66.35
Academic Choir of the USSR
All-Union Radio (1-3)
USSR State Academic
Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Evgeny Svetlanov
Recorded in 1991 (1-3), 1988 (4-7).
CD 2
Concert suite for violin and orchestra in G minor, Op. 28
1. I. Prelude. Grave - 8.29
2. II. Gavotte. Allegro moderato - 5.28
3. III. Fairy Tale. Andantino - 9.17
4. IV. Theme and Variations. Andantino - 14.52
5. V. Tarantella. Presto - 6.32
6. Temple of Apollo at Delphi, entr’acte before scene 2, act III of the musical trilogy Oresteia based on the tragedy by Aeschylus - 5.56
Total time: 50.37
Andrey Korsakov, violin (1-5)
USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Evgeny Svetlanov
Recorded: at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory in 1990 (1-5), broadcasted from the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory on December 28, 1984 (6).
Firma Melodiya presents a collection of Sergei Taneyev’s best works in the interpretation of Evgeny Svetlanov.
“A great Russian musician, whose all efforts inspire deep respect,” musicologist Boris Asafyev wrote about Taneyev. As a composer, pianist, music theorist and educator, disciple of Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Nikolai Rubinstein, teacher of Rachmaninoff and Scriabin, professor and director of Moscow Conservatory, Taneyev made an immense contribution to the Russian music at the turn of the 20th century. His work drew on the traditions of symphonic, chamber and opera music by Tchaikovsky, enriching them with intensive polyphonic development.
Cantata John of Damascus is Taneyev’s first composition endowed with artistic maturity (the author himself numbered it Opus 1). It is dedicated to the memory of his teacher Nikolai Rubinstein; the composition is based on the church chant Give rest with the saints, thoroughly elaborated, similarly to chorales in choral pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach. Symphony No. 4 in C minor is a masterpiece of Taneyev’s instrumental music, where the traditional structure of sonata-symphonic cycle is filled with intense dramatic movement “from the darkness to the light.”
The collection also features a refined concert suite for violin and orchestra and the symphonic entr’acte from the opera Oresteia (Temple of Apollo at Delphi) - an image of imperishable Light and Justice embodied in the image of the ancient god.
Taneyev’s compositions are recorded in the version of the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra conducted by of Evgeny Svetlanov - a major interpreter of the Russian classical music. The cantata was recorded with the participation of the Big Choir of the All-Union Radio and Central TV, the concert suite features Andrey Korsakov, People’s Artiste of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, one of the best students of Leonid Kogan. |
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ID: MELCD1002456 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Chamber Music Subcollection: Trio Lubotsky Trio: Mark Lubotsky (violin), Ferdinand Erblich (viola), Olga Dowbusch-Lubotsky (cello)
Firma Melodiya presents a rarity of Russian chamber music, string quartets by Sergei Taneyev performed by Lubotsky Trio. In the early 20th century, they called Taneyev “musical conscience of Moscow.” Tchaikovsky’s best student and friend, the first recipient of the Big Gold Medal of the Moscow Conservatory, and a teacher of Rachmaninoff, Scriabin and other famous composers, Taneyev proved to be an outstanding pianist, composer, educator and music theorist.
A true master of polyphonic composition and a fine ensemble performer, Taneyev devoted special attention to thematic development, vibrant voiceleading, subtle palette of strokes, and sought to find an ideal balance between emotional and rational in music. The chamber and instrumental genres were perhaps the ones that answered his artistic demands to the greatest extent.
Two string trios - E flat major, Op. 31, and B minor (no opus) - on this album belong to the 1910’s, the last period of Taneyev’s life. The latter one remained unfinished and was published many years after the composer’s death.
Taneyev’s trios are performed by Mark Lubotsky, a remarkable violinist and representative of the Russian performing school, and his trio composed of Mark Lubotsky, German violist Ferdinand Erblich and cellist Olga Dowbusch-Lubotsky. A graduate of the Moscow Conservatory, a student of Abram Yampolsky and David Oistrakh, and a prize-winner of the 1st Tchaikovsky International Competition in 1958, Mark Lubotsky now resides in Germany and still combines his performing career with teaching.
The recording was made in Germany in 2015, the year of the 100th anniversary of the prominent Russian composer’s death. |
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