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T. Khrennikov - Symphonies and Concertos

T. Khrennikov - Symphonies and Concertos
ID: MELCD1002086
CDs: 3
Type: CD
Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Violin and Orchestra

Melodiya presents a complete set of orchestral music by one of the most influential domestic composers of the 20th century Tikhon Khrennikov.

The musician headed the USSR Union of Composers for more than fifty years combining crucial organizational activities with a busy creative and educational work.

His compositions were performed by some of the leading orchestras, music theatres and best-known performers of the Soviet Union. Then, due to social and political rather than artistic reasons, many of his works were consigned to oblivion.

The featured symphonic and concert works by Tikhon Khrennikov are performed by such outstanding conductors as Evgeni Svetlanov, Dmitri Kitayenko and Maxim Shostakovich, and soloists as Mstislav Rostropovich, Vadim Repin and others.

Khrennikov:
Violin Concerto No. 1 in C, Op. 14
Vadim Repin (violin)
The USSR State Academic Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov

Violin Concerto No. 2 in C, Op. 23
Vadim Repin (violin)
The USSR State Academic Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov

Cello Concerto No. 1, Op. 16
Valentin Feigin (cello)
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Maxim Shostakovich

Cello Concerto No. 2, Op. 30
Mikhail Khomitser (cello)
The USSR State Academic Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov

Piano Concerto No. 1 in F, Op. 1
Tikhon Khrennikov (piano)
The USSR State Academic Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov

Piano Concerto No. 2 in C, Op. 21
Tikhon Khrennikov (piano)
The USSR State Academic Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov

Piano Concerto No. 3 in C, Op. 28
Tikhon Khrennikov (piano)
The Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Philharmonic Society, Dmitri Kitayenko

Piano Concerto No. 4 with string orchestra and percussion, Op. 37
Anatoly Sheludyakov (piano)
ARCO Chamber Orchestra, Levon Ambartsumian

Symphony No. 1 in B flat, Op. 4
The USSR State Academic Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov

Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 9
The USSR State Academic Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov

Symphony No. 3 in A, Op. 22
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R. Vaughan Williams - Symphonies Nos. 1-9 - USSR State Symphony Orchestra, USSR Ministry of Culture - Gennady Rozhdestvensky

R. Vaughan Williams - Symphonies Nos. 1-9 - USSR State Symphony Orchestra, USSR Ministry of Culture - Gennady Rozhdestvensky
ID: MELCD1002170
CDs: 6
Type: CD
Collection: Symphony
Subcollection: Orchestra

Box set
R. Vaughan Williams - Symphonies No.1, No.2, No.3, No.5, No.6, No.8 and No.9

Melodiya presents a complete set of Ralph Vaughan Williams’s symphonies conducted by Gennady Rozhdestvensky.Vaughan Williams was one of the largest figures of the English Musical Renaissance, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A composer, conductor, organist, folklore student and publicist, Vaughan Williams today is mostly known for his large-scale symphonic works. The English composer’s nine symphonies sequentially reflect the evolution of his creative style (the first one was composed in 1903, and the last one not long before he died in 1958). Each of them seems to be a continuation, a development of the previous one (a sort of “chapters of one novel”), but neither repeats any other one in structure, composition, concept or music. Some of the symphonies are closely connected with national poetry (Walt Whitman), episodes from the English history or pictures of native countryside.Absorbing a wide range of sources realized in Vaughan Williams’s style - from old folk songs and religious hymns to musical impressionism and jazz - his symphonies are notable for expressive figurativeness and melodic resourcefulness, and open to any keen ear.The recordings of Vaughan Williams’s symphonies performed by the prominent conductor and recognized master of interpretation of 20th century music were made at concerts in 1988-1989 in Leningrad.
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Emil Gilels Plays Bach - Vol. 2 - First Time on CD

Emil Gilels Plays Bach - Vol. 2 - First Time on CD
ID: MELCD1002224
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Baroque
Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra

Firma 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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N. Miaskovsky - Selected Symphonies - USSR State Symphony Orchestra - K. Ivanov - E. Svetlanov

N. Miaskovsky - Selected Symphonies - USSR State Symphony Orchestra - K. Ivanov - E. Svetlanov
ID: MELCD1002268
CDs: 3
Type: CD
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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FROM THE HISTORY OF THE TCHAIKOVSKY COMPETITION. PHONODOCUMENTS

FROM THE HISTORY OF THE TCHAIKOVSKY COMPETITION. PHONODOCUMENTS
ID: MELCD1002349
CDs: 10
Type: CD
Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra

BOX set
Firma Melodiya presents a boxed set titled “International Tchaikovsky Competition. Phonographic Documents (1958-1986)”.
The first ever Soviet music tournament instantly became one of the world’s most prestigious competitions. The piano jury was chaired by Emil Gilels for many years, while David Oistrakh and Mstislav Rostropovich headed the violin and cello juries, respectively. Alexander Sveshnikov, an outstanding choirmaster and chancellor of the Moscow Conservatory, was a chairman of the vocal jury. For the fifty years of its existence, the Tchaikovsky Competition discovered numerous distinguished performers such as Van Cliburn, Vladimir Ashkenasi, Grigory Sokolov, Eliso Virsaladze, John Lill, Michail Pletnev, Viktor Tretiakov, Gidon Kremer, Vladimir Spivakov, Oleg Kagan, Natalia Gutman, Elena Obraztsova, Maria Gulegina, Vladimir Atlantov, Yevgeny Nesterenko and Paata Burchuladze to name but a few. The set captures the brightest moments of eight Tchaikovsky Competitions in all categories. The recordings, including a number of never-before-released ones, were made immediately during the competition auditions
and at the prize-winners’ recitals. The release is dedicated to the 175th anniversary of the great Russian composer.
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D. SHOSTAKOVICH - All Symphonies - Symphonies Nos. 1-15 (complete)

D. SHOSTAKOVICH - All Symphonies - Symphonies Nos. 1-15 (complete)
ID: MELCD1002431
CDs: 10
Type: CD
Collection: Symphony
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra

Dmitri Shostakovich’s creations constitute a musical chronicle of the epoch. What we hear in his music is something that continues to alarm minds and souls of millions of people. His fifteen symphonies captured not only the great musician’s evolution - as if the entire 20th century with its great discoveries and perturbations, unprecedented progress and terrifying catastrophes breathes in their scores. These are unique documents of human spirit that will stay with us for good to tell us about their time, to stir heated theoretical and aesthetic disputes, to give us a reason for very different interpretations, and to command our admiration or sharp rejection. Whatever the case may be, they will never find an indifferent listener.
Firma Melodiya is preparing a number of large-scale projects for the Shostakovich anniversary year. We present the first of them - a set of the composer’s symphonies performed by the greatest masters of the Soviet conducting school and brightest interpreters of Shostakovich’s music - Evgeny Mravinsky, Kirill Kondrashin, Evgeny Svetlanov and Gennady Rozhdestvensky. The set also includes recordings made by Konstantin Ivanov, a predecessor of Evgeny Svetlanov as chief conductor of the country’s principal orchestra - the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra; Yuri Temirkanov, a successor of Evgeny Mravinsky, a great representative of the St. Petersburg conducting school; Rudolf Barshai, a founder of the first Soviet chamber orchestra and the one who inspired Shostakovich’s Fourteenth Symphony; and Maxim Shostakovich, the composer’s son who presented the world premiere of the last, Fifteenth Symphony.
The live and studio recordings of Shostakovich’s symphonies were made by Firma Melodiya from 1961 to 1984. The studio recording is peculiar for the fact it was realized shortly after the world premiere in the presence and under supervision of the composer. An unconfirmed legend among the former members of the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra has it that the recording was to be erased together with the other ones after Maxim Shostakovich defected from the Soviet Union. However, it survived among the Melodiya phonograms.
The edition comprises a lidded hard box made from lined cardboard, 9 digipacks and a thick hardcover booklet in English and Russian.

CD 1 - Symphonies Nos. 1-3
CD 2 - Symphony No. 4
CD 3 - Symphonies Nos. 5 - 6
CD 4 - Symphony No. 7
CD 5 - Symphony No. 8
CD 6 - Symphonies Nos. 9 - 10
CD 7, CD 8 - Symphonies Nos. 11 - 13
CD 9 - Symphony No. 14
CD 10 - Symphony No. 15
150.00 eur Temporarily out of stock

Pesni nashey Rodiny (Songs of our Motherland) Vol. 6

Pesni nashey Rodiny  (Songs of our Motherland)  Vol. 6
ID: MELCD6001438
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Songs from Russia

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S. PROKOFIEV - Peter and the Wolf - C. SAINT-SAENS - Carnival of the Animals

S. PROKOFIEV - Peter and the Wolf - C. SAINT-SAENS - Carnival of the Animals
ID: MKM296
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Music for Children
Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra

1 - 3: In Russian - Narrator - Nikolay Litvinov
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Leonid Kogan, violin - L. van Beethoven Concert in D major, Op.61 / RomanceNo.1, Op40 / F. Mendelssohn - Concerto for Violin and Orch., Op. 64

Leonid Kogan, violin - L. van Beethoven Concert in D major, Op.61 / RomanceNo.1, Op40 /  F. Mendelssohn  - Concerto for Violin and Orch., Op. 64
ID: MKM305
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Violin Concerto
Subcollection: Violin and Orchestra

Track 1-3
The USSR State Symphony, Evgeni Svetlanov, conductor
Recorded live at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire 24.04.1960

Track 4-7
The USSR TV and Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor
Recorded live 27.12.1970
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Daniil Shafran (cello) and USSR State Symphony Orchestra, G. Rozhdestvensky: J.S. Bach: Sonatas; J.C Bach: Cello Concerto; Breval: Sonata

Daniil Shafran (cello) and USSR State Symphony Orchestra, G. Rozhdestvensky: J.S. Bach: Sonatas; J.C Bach: Cello Concerto;  Breval: Sonata
ID: MKM313
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Cello Concerto
Subcollection: Cello and Orchestra

Daniil Shafran, cello

1-11 Andrei Volkonsky, harpsichord
12-14 USSR State Symphony Orchestra
Conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky
15-17 Nina Musinyan, piano

Recorded: 1948 (15-17), 1961 (12-14), 1966 (1-11)
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