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Piano Duet Vol. 1 - A. Bakhchiev (piano) and E. Sorokina (piano) - Brahms - Lanner - Schubert - Schumann

Piano Duet Vol. 1 - A. Bakhchiev (piano) and E. Sorokina (piano) - Brahms - Lanner - Schubert - Schumann
ID: MELCD1002197
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection:
Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano

Firma Melodiya presents the first part of the anthology 'Piano Duet' featuring Elena Sorokina and Alexander Bakhchiyev.

The ensemble of two remarkable musicians, professors of the Moscow Conservatory - Honoured Art Worker of Russia Elena Sorokina and People’s Artist of Russia Alexander Bakhchiyev - was formed in 1968. For more than thirty years they jointly performed in Russia and around the world. In fact, the duet of Sorokina and Bakhchiyev revived the culture of piano duet which used to be so popular in Russia. They have performed more than a hundred compositions of the genre (many of them were premieres in this country) and been recognized as a 'Golden duet of Russia'.

“Their emergence on stage is always a feast of music, joy and beauty”, wrote Leonid Zhivov, a pianist and professor of the Moscow Conservatory.

This disc is dedicated to four hand piano compositions from the period of German romanticism and, along with unpretentious pieces 'for home playing', includes deeply dramatic ones. So, you will hear Schubert’s virtuosic and romantic Fantasia along with his Waltzes and Polonaises, Brahms’ Hungarian Dances, Schumann’s very distinctive Gespenstermarchen and waltzes by Joseph Lanner, a very popular Austrian composer in his time who initiated the era of Viennese waltz - his music very much anticipated the Strauss dynasty.

The recordings were made between 1974 and 1990.

Brahms:
Hungarian Dances (excerpts)
Waltzes (16), Op. 39, extracts
Five Waltzes

Lanner:
Waltzes Hymens Feierklänge, Op. 115

Schubert:
Fantasie in F minor for piano duet, D940
4 Polonaises, Op. 75, D. 599
12 Waltzes, D145 arr. Georg Kremser for piano four hand

Schumann:
Fantastic Fairy Tale from the cycle12 Piano Pieces for Small and Large Children, Op. 85, No. 11

Alexander Bakhchiev (piano) & Elena Sorokina (piano)
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Lukas Geniusas - Emancipation of Consonance

Lukas Geniusas - Emancipation of Consonance
ID: MELCD1002409
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection:
Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano

Firma Melodiya presents an album of piano music by contemporary Russian composers performed by Lukas Geniušas, a prize-winner of the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition.

The young pianist is one of the brightest musical talents of today. A student of Vera Gornostayeva, he is a worthy continuer of the great traditions of domestic piano art that date back to the time of Heinrich Neuhaus. At his age of 25, he is an owner of numerous prestigious international awards, including silver medals of two of Europe’s renowned piano tournaments - the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (2011) and the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (2015). Critics have noted the maturity and depth of the pianist’s art, and the convincingness of his renditions of pieces written in different ages - from Handel to Hindemith. Geniušas’s recordings have been released on NIFC, Art Classic, DUX and Piano Classics. The Fryderyk Chopin Institute previously released a double album of his Chopin recordings, and the Moscow Conservatory released a live recording of the pianist’s recital dedicated to Rachmaninoff’s anniversary.

This time Lukas Geniušas presents piano cycles of today’s Russian composers - Leonid Desyatnikov, Valery Arzumanov and Vladimir Ryabov. The featured works were composed in the second half of the 1980s in the vein of the aesthetics of the “new simplicity.” At the same time the music captures a complicated era of total reappraisal of values that was going on in those years in the life and arts of this country. The pianist also provides commentary on the programme of the album.
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A. SCRIABIN - Ludmila Berlinskaya, piano

A. SCRIABIN - Ludmila Berlinskaya, piano
ID: MELCD1002398
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection:
Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano

The album was inspired by the works of Alexander Scriabin who takes a special place in Ludmila Berlinskaya's life. According to the pianist, this collection is built on the principle of evolution, and this evolution is for the listener. It showcases the progress of Scriabin's music - from the Preludes, Op. 11, to the poem Toward the Flame, Op. 72. The Two Preludes written under the influence of the music of Alexander Scriabin and the future poet, novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Boris Pasternak are of particular interest, while the Four Preludes, moving compositions by young Julian Scriabin, show natural bent of a future great composer.
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P.I. TCHAIKOVSKY - The Seasons, Children's Album

P.I. TCHAIKOVSKY - The Seasons, Children's Album
ID: MELCD1002488
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection:
Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano

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S.S.PROKOFIEV - G.N.POPOV - D.D.SHOSTAKOVICH - V.REBRIKOV - S. FEINBERG - Pieces for Piano - Yuri Favorin, piano

S.S.PROKOFIEV - G.N.POPOV - D.D.SHOSTAKOVICH - V.REBRIKOV - S. FEINBERG - Pieces for Piano - Yuri Favorin, piano
ID: MELCD1002459
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection:
Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano

This album features names that are virtually unknown to today’s wide audience - Gavriil Popov, Vladimir Rebikov and Samuil Feinberg. For the first time on record, Melodiya presents Grand Suite by Gavriil Popov, one of the most talented representatives of “avant-garde Soviet music” of the 1920’s to the early 1930’s. Vladimir Rebikov was one of the first representatives of Russian music modernism. His piano cycle On the Other Side was inspired by the works of Spanish painter Francisco Goya. Samuil Feinberg is known first of all as a prominent pianist, educator and successor to the traditions of the Russian piano school. Nevertheless, he regarded himself as, first and foremost, a composer and heir to Alexander Scriabin’s creative aspirations. The album also includes works by Prokofiev and Shostakovich. A prize-winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, one of the world’s most prestigious tournaments, Yury Favorin graduated from the Moscow Conservatory under professor Mikhail Voskresensky. The young musician gives special attention to contemporary and rarely performed music. The programmes of his performances are noted for their careful structure.
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Tchaikovsky Competition 1986 (Live) - Anton Batagov, piano

Tchaikovsky Competition 1986 (Live) - Anton Batagov, piano
ID: MELCD1002464
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection:
Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano

Fans of the musician who is known as a genre-breaking composer, performer and ardent propagandist of the most radical styles of contemporary music, may find this album surprising.
Beethoven, Chopin, Scriabin, Prokofiev and, of course, Tchaikovsky are performed by the 20-year old student of the Moscow Conservatory who was not admitted to the final round of the prestigious contest but was awarded an important prize: “for best performance of Tchaikovsky’s music.”
Even then the young musician, one of the most promising pianists from Tatiana Nikolayeva’s class, was confident of his propensities. A lover of 20th century music, including that written by his contemporaries, he interprets Beethoven, Scriabin and Prokofiev with youthful enthusiasm void of academic clichés. As Anton Batagov admitted, Tchaikovsky’s music was something that he had to struggle with. Only when he was preparing for the competition, he came to realize the depth of the Russian music genius - “as an extremely lonely and extremely closed man who had an infinitely subtle perception of the world... as a man to whom life was, first of all, an impossibility of happiness.” And at the same time, a man of “absolute harmony and fabulous beauty.” These recordings made 30 years ago during the first two rounds of the VIII Tchaikovsky International Competition are released for the first time.
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F. LISZT - Two Sonatas for Two Pianos- Ludmila Berlinsraya, piano - Arthur Ancelle, piano

F. LISZT - Two Sonatas for Two Pianos- Ludmila Berlinsraya, piano - Arthur Ancelle, piano
ID: MELCD1002463
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subcollection: Piano

Firma Melodiya presents a recording of two-piano transcriptions by Franz Liszt and Camille Saint-Saëns performed by the piano duet of Ludmila Berlinskaya and Arthur Ancelle.
“The unity of beautiful souls,” wrote foreign reviewers about the duet. Representatives of famous artistic dynasties (Berlinskaya is a daughter of Valentin Berlinsky, an outstanding cellist, professor and founding member of the Borodin Quartet; Ancelle is a great grandson of the legendary opera diva Fanny Heldy, a grandson of a ballerina and a son of a theatre director) and alumni of different music performing traditions, they began to jointly perform in 2011 and have won the listeners’ hearts in Russia, France and Switzerland. Their joint debut album with Tchaikovsky’s music was highly acclaimed by BBC Music Magazine.
The programme of this album combines two, at first glance, completely different pianistic styles of the 19th century - Liszt and Saint-Saëns. However, the two great musicians took a genuine interest in each other’s works that was expressed in “mutual” transcriptions. Liszt unintentionally introduced the powerful current of his personality into his arrangements. The Dance of Death is an obvious example that makes the comparison between the two piano versions of this symphonic work, one transcribed by Liszt and the other transcribed by the author, even more interesting. On the other way around, a hint of Saint-Saëns is heard in his transcription of Liszt’s B minor Sonata he made for himself and his friend and outstanding French pianist Louis Diémer. The album also includes Liszt’s Après une Lecture de Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata arranged for two pianos by Arthur Ancelle.
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Emil Gilels, piano - "Unrelesed recordings from Yokohama and Tokyo 1984" - Brahms - Schumann - Mendelssohn-Bartholdy

Emil Gilels, piano - "Unrelesed recordings from Yokohama and Tokyo 1984"  - Brahms  - Schumann - Mendelssohn-Bartholdy
ID: AQVR294-2
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection:
Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano

Live recordings:
18.03. 1984 Kanagawa Kenmin Hall (Yokohama) (2)
20.03. 1984 Ueno Bunka Kaikan (Tokyo) (1, 3, 4, 5)
"Live recording at AurexClassicConcert" for Toshiba - EMI Ldt/Japan
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D. SHOSTAKOVICH - Piano Sonata No. 2 in B Minor - 24 Preludes - Aphorisms - Irina Chukovskaya, piano

D. SHOSTAKOVICH - Piano Sonata No. 2 in B Minor - 24 Preludes - Aphorisms - Irina Chukovskaya, piano
ID: MELCD1002455
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection:
Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano

Firma Melodiya presents a new CD of the renowned Russian pianist Irina Chukovskaya (Petrova) dedicated to the 110th anniversary of the 20th century classic Dmitri Shostakovich.
“Irina Chukovskaya is a pianist of a bright talent. Her performance is attractive because of its outstanding virtuosity, sonic culture and genuine artistry.
Different musical styles and directions are within her power,” Mstislav Rostropovich once described Chukovskaya’s art. An alumna of the central Music School and the Moscow Conservatory, a student of Vera Gornostayeva and Stanislav Neuhaus, and a winner of the 1980 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Irina Chukovskaya is now a professor of the Russian Gnessins Music Academy and one of the best representatives of the Neuhaus school in today’s musical and performing art and piano pedagogy.
The pianist has performed at the largest concert venues of Russia, Europe and Asia. She is particularly well-known in the United States where she has played over 500 recitals. Chukovskaya has been a long-time collaborator of the
conductor Maxim Shostakovich. “I have performed with Irina Chukovskaya on repeated occasions and witnessed her significant artistic achievements,” the musician tells. “This recording of my father’s works is among them. She renders the poignant tragicalness of the images of the sonata, flexible fickleness of the moods of the preludes and paradoxical eccentricity of the Aphorisms with conquering convincingness.”
The disc features Dmitri Shostakovich’s most significant works for solo piano - Aphorisms, and early experimental cycle written in 1927, the well-known 24 Preludes for piano (1932-1933) and Sonata No. 2 for piano (1943), one of the large-scale works of the war period dedicated to memory of Leonid Nikolayev, Shostakovich’s teacher and one of the founders of the Soviet piano school.
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Emil Gilels, piano - The early years: Chopin - Liszt - Schumann - Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and etc....

Emil Gilels, piano - The early years: Chopin - Liszt  -  Schumann - Mendelssohn-Bartholdy and etc....
ID: AQVR292-2
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection:
Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano

Recordings (1934-1938)
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