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ID: RCD16336
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Russian Piano School
Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra
Academic Russian Choir of the USSR, A. Sveshnikov Valery (Prométhée) / State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Moscow State Philharmonic, Konstantin Ivanov (Prométhée) / Recorded in 1970-79 / Historical Recordings |
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ID: RCD13088
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Russian Piano School
Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra
CD 1
(1 - 12) - Maria Yudina, piano
CD 2
(1 - 3) - Maria Yudina, piano / Maria Kozoloupova, violin
(4 - 6) - Maria Yudina, piano / The USSR Symphony Orchestra - Alexander Gauk, conductor
(7, 8 ) - Maria Yudina, piano
CD 1 - Live recording in 1951
CD 2
1-3 - Live recording in 1951
(4 - 6) - Live recording in 1952
(7, 8 ) - Live recording in 1951 |
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ID: MELCD1002227
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Piano Concerto
Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra
Melodiya presents a set of Prokofiev’s piano concertos performed by Vladimir Krainev.One of the brightest composers/pianists of his time, Prokofiev reflected in his piano concertos the most recognizable features of his artistic individuality like in a mirror. Having resolutely deserted the romantic tradition of the concerto genre, he created a new type of it. The motive toccata style, a splendid technique of scales and passages - all combined with fragile lyricism; sharp grotesque contrasts - and a sunny emotion of life-asserting; a crystal clear form and pattern - and sudden twists of the musical “plot”… This is what a figurative world of these works appears to be with each of them being individual realization of the genre and never continuing the line of the previous one.People’s Artist of the USSR Vladimir Krainev is indeed among the best interpreters of domestic music of the 20th century. While a student of the Moscow Conservatory, he became a world-famous pianist after his victories at the international competitions in Leeds and Lisbon. In 1970, he won the first prize of the International Tchaikovsky Competition.Apart from his flawless technical skills and rich sound palette, Vladimir Krainev was notable for a bright temperament which often roused the artist to do bold and even risky interpretations (one of the Austrian newspapers dubbed him “a tiger of keys on the arena”). That is probably why Prokofiev’s music was so dear to Krainev, who always had the composer’s concertos, sonatas and numerous piano pieces in his repertoire. Vladimir Krainev recorded Prokofiev’s five piano concertos were recorded with the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Philharmonic Society conducted by Dmitri Kitayenko. |
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ID: MELCD1002240
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra
Firma Melodiya presents recordings of the outstanding St Petersburg pianist Grigory Sokolov.
This musician’s performance is notable for particular concentration and complete immersion in the musical element. His manner amazes with perfection of technique in the absence of external effects of any kind.
Grigory Sokolov is one of the few modern pianists who always include intellectual piano masterpieces in their programmes, which requires a special mood from both the performer and the audience - Beethoven’s sonatas of the latter period, J S Bach’s 'The Art of Fugue', Brahms’ last pieces.
Most of Sokolov’s recordings were made from live broadcasts in Leningrad/St Petersburg and Moscow - he prefers concert performances to studio work.
This set combines the large-scale dramatic canvases of Beethoven’s sonatas with the restless romantic heroics of Scriabin’s Third Sonata where Sokolov emphasizes the Promethean spirit without erasing the individuality of the Russian genius of the 20th century.
However, what makes this set particularly interesting is Grigory Sokolov’s recordings of the works by his contemporary, Leningrad composer Boris Arapov. The piano sonata and concerto for violin, piano, percussion and chamber orchestra recorded by the pianist are released on Melodiya for the first time.
Grigory Sokolov made the featured recordings of the works by Beethoven, Scriabin and Arapov between 1972 and 1988.
Arapov:
Concerto for violin, piano and percussion with chamber orchestra
with Nikolay Moskalenko (percussions) & khail Vaiman (violin)
Chamber Orchestra of the Leningrad State Philharmonic Society, Alexander Dmitriyev
Piano Sonata No. 2
Beethoven:
Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90
Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
Piano Sonata No. 7 in D major, Op. 10 No. 3
Scriabin:
Piano Sonata No. 3 in F sharp minor, Op. 23
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Grigory Sokolov (piano) |
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ID: MELCD1001911
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Piano Concerto
Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra
22 October, 2011 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Franz Liszt (1811-1886), the brilliant virtuoso pianist, genius composer, renowned educator and music critic, one of the brightest stars of the musical Olympus of the 19th century. As a daring innovator, Liszt stirred up a revolution in both the art of piano playing and composing. Being a classic of the Hungarian national music who imbibed cultural tradition of other countries, Liszt exerted influence upon on the course of European music in general. "If not for Liszt, the fate of new music would have been different," wrote music critic Vladimir Stasov. The piano remained Liszt's favourite instrument throughout his artistic life. His innovative approach to the instrument showed up in his orchestral and symphonic interpretation. He created a multitude of virtuosic transcriptions of his own works and ones composed by others authors such as operatic numbers and songs by Schumann, symphonies by Beethoven. "In the span of its seven octaves, [the piano] embraces the range of a whole orchestra, and the ten fingers of a single man suffice to render the harmonies produced created by the concurrence of a hundred musicians," wrote Liszt. In the field of symphonic music, the composer created a whole new genre - single movement symphonic poem (Tasso, Les préludes, Orpheus, Prometheus and others). This release dedicated to the 200th anniversary of Liszt's birth includes compositions by Franz Liszt performed by some of the best musicians such as Alexander Slobodyanik (his recording of a Hungarian Rhapsody and Piano Sonata in B minor brought him a Franz Liszt award in Hungary, in 1976), Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Vladimir Ashkenazi, Gleb Akselrod, Mark Ermler, Lazar Berman, Vladimir Ovchinnikov and Kirill Kondrashin.
CD 1:
(1) - Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
(2) - Lazar Berman (piano)
(3) - Vladimir Ovchinnikov (piano)
(4) - Gleb Akselrod (piano)
(5) - Alexander Slobodyanik (piano)
CD2:
(1) - Pavel Serebryakov (piano) / Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra - Kirill Kondrashin
(2) - Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra - Gennady Rozhdestvensky
(3 - 5 ) - USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra - Mark Ermler |
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ID: MELCD1002386
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Piano Concerto
Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra
CD1 - András Schiff, piano
CD2 - A. Schiff, piano / Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra - D. Kitayenko
Firma Melodiya presents never-before-released recordings of András Schiff made at the V Tchaikovsky International Competition in 1974.
One of the most prominent pianists of modern times, András Schiff is nevertheless does not belong to the so-called competition format. The musician who earned the pedestal of philosopher pianist, “a representative of intellectual musical tradition in its high apprehension,” has never had virtuosity, sonic lustre and visual artistry in his sphere of interests.
However, the live recordings of the then 21-year-old Hungarian are of unquestionable interest. Soviet music critic Leonid Gakkel described his impressions of Schiff’s performance in the following way: “From his very first note at the competition Schiff struck me with the vigour of his performance, and that was vigour of the highest festivity… What a touch on the piano, what a charge of energy, what burning fingers! Ultimate activity of a creating spirit at each moment of playing…”
At the competition, Schiff played piano works by Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Prokofiev and Shostakovich, variation cycles and concertos by Tchaikovsky and Brahms. In the opinion of Yevgeny Malinin, a competent judge and professor of the Moscow Conservatory, Schiff “read music without a drop of wilfulness: he lived in and with it.” The panel gave him only the fourth prize (“incomplete correspondence” with general virtuosity and competition standards had an impact). However, it wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that it was the Tchaikovsky Competition that brought the first significant success and international repute to the outstanding pianist. |
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ID: SMCCD0267-269
CDs: 3
Type: CD
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Collection: Piano Concerto
Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra
CD1: Live at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, November 14, 2018 (1-3) and January 20, 2017 (4-6)
CD2: Live at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, November 14, 2018 (1-3) and May 25, 2015 (4-6)
CD3: Live at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, February 14, 2018 (1-3) and May 11, 2019 (4)
Mikhail Voskresensky, piano
Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory Concert Symphony Orchestra -
The Chamber Choir of the Moscow Conservatory (CD3: Track - 3)
Artistic director: Alexander Solovyev (CD3: Track - 3)
Conductor: Anatoly Levin |
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ID: MELCD1001993
CDs: 4
Type: CD
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Collection: Piano Concerto
Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra
Svetlanov was unanimously recognised as the best interpreter of Scriabin’s music. This is a complete collection of Scriabin’s symphonic works and includes Prometheus for piano, choir and orchestra with the world renowned pianist Sviatoslav Richter.
Scriabin:
Symphony No. 1 in E major -L. Avdeeva (mezzo), A. Grigoriev (tenor), The Republican Choir Kapella
Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 29
Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 43 'The Divine Poem'
Symphony No. 4 - 'Le Poème de l'extase', Op. 54 -Y. Krivosheyev (violin), Heinrich Fridheim (violin)
Reverie, Op. 24
Prometheus (The Poem of Fire), Op. 60 -Sviatoslav Richter (piano) ,The USSR State Radio and Television Big Choir
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USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov |
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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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