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ID: MELCD1001680
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Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Chamber EnsembleLibretto by Grigory Frid after the letters of Van Gogh to his brother Theo (Translated by P. Melkova)
Sergey Yakovenko, baritone
Soloists Ensemble: Conducted Mark Ermler
Eugenia Alikhanova, 1st violin
Valentina Alykova, 2nd violin
Tatyana Kokhanovskaya, viola
Lev Mikhailov, clarinet
Mikhail Muntyan, piano
Valentine Snegirev, drums
Olga Ogranovich, cello
Rifat Komachkov, double bass
Anatoly Kurashov, drums |
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ID: MELCD1002186
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Wind Music
Subcollection: Piano et BassonFirma Melodiya continues to present Russian chamber music for wind instruments.
This disc features compositions written within a hundred years between 1832 and 1932.
Trio pathétique by Mikhail Glinka, one of the first Russian chamber ensembles originally composed for clarinet, bassoon and piano (winds are often replaced with strings) received its continuation in Mily Balakirev’s octet. The future leader of The Five met Glinka at a young age and earned a praise of his talent. An elegant music picture An Evening in Georgia by Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov presents an oriental area of Russian music. It was created under the impression of life in Tiflis (now Tbilisi), Georgia, where the composer lived for more than ten years and virtually led the music life of the city. Saxophone Quartet, a concluding piece of the programme is one of the last works by the classical Russian composer Alexander Glazunov composed in 1932. The composer was carried away with a new timbre of the saxophone and so excited with the sound of the musicians of the French National Guards orchestra that he wrote a composition especially for them in timbre colours which were so unusual for Russian music.
The recordings feature soloists and musicians of some of the leading Moscow orchestras, including such outstanding musicians as harpist Emilia Moskovityanova, flutist Valentin Zverev, clarinetist Vladimir Sokolov, violinist Andrei Korsakov, cellist Fyodor Luzanov, saxophonist Lev Mikhailov and others. Remarkable pianists and winners of international competitions, People’s Artists of Russia Lyubov Timofeyeva and Alexei Nasedkin play the piano on the ensembles by Glinka and Balakirev.
Balakirev:
Octet, Op. 3
Valentin Zverev (flute), Anatoli Lyubimov (oboe), Boris Afanasiev (horn), Adrei Korsakov (violin), Mikhail Tolpygo (viola), Fyodor Luzanov (cello), Rifat Komachkov (double bass), Alexei Nasedkin (piano)
Glazunov:
Saxophone Quartet, Op. 109
Lev Mikhailov (soprano saxophone), Alexander Oseichuk (alto saxophone), Yuri Vorontsov (tenor saxophone) & Vladimir Yeryomin (baritone saxophone)
Glinka:
Trio Pathetique in D minor
Vladimir Sokolov (clarinet), Sergei Krasavin (bassoon), Lyubov Timofeyva (piano)
Ippolitov-Ivanov:
Quintet for Piano and Winds, Op. 71 "An Evening in Georgia"
Valentin Zverev (flute), Anatoli Lyubimov (oboe), Vladimir Sokolov (clarinet), Sergei Krasavin (bassoon), Emilia Moskvitina (harp) |
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ID: MELCD1001999
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Orchestral Works
Subcollection: OrchestreEntitled Russian Capriccio, this unique disc couples together Glinka’s ‘Brilliant Capriccio on a Theme of the Jota Aragonesa’, Rimsky-Korsakov’s ‘Spanish Capriccio for Orchestra’, Tchaikovsky’s ‘Capriccio Italien’ and Rachmaninov’s ‘Capriccio on Gypsy Themes’. Brilliantly performed by the Russian forces of the USSR State Symphony Orchestra and conducted by Svetlanov, this recording is a must for all lovers of Russian music.
Glinka:
Spanish Overture No. 1 'Capriccio brillante on the Jota Aragonese'
Rachmaninov:
Gypsy Caprice
Rimsky Korsakov:
Capriccio espagnol, Op. 34
Tchaikovsky:
Capriccio italien, Op. 45
USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov |
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ID: MELCD1001699
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Chamber Music
Subcollection: Piano and QuartetThis is the first time that these live recordings, made in the Pushkin Museum of fine Arts in December 1985, have been made available on CD. Richter performs Schumann’s Blumenstück, Concert Etude after Paganini Op. 10 No. 4 in C minor and the Piano Quintet in E flat major Op.44 together with the world renowned Borodin Quartet. Richter and Berlinskaya perform Six Impromptus for piano 4-hands Op.66.
“The World of Romanticism” was a subtitle of the famous Svyatoslav Richter’s music festival “December Nights”. Its programme, as it was the organizers’ intent, comprised compositions by Schubert, Schumann and Chopin. Ten day were devoted to the works of each of the composers. In the beginning of the night which opened the ten days of Robert Schumann, Svyatoslav Richter presented the audience with a Viennese bouquet Blumenstück, Op. 19. That was what they used to call flower still life paintings in Germany (German die Blume stands for a flower, and das Stück - a thing) which were hugely popular in the 19th century. According to the author, that elegant piece appeared to be “variations with no theme” and should have been titled Garland. But later the title was replaced with Blumenstück. Six impromptus for piano 4-hands Bilder aus Osten (“Pictures from the East”), Op. 66, were composed by Robert Schumann in 1848 and inspired by the short stories of Friedrich Rückert based on the stories The Transformations of Abu Said of Serug by Al-Hariri. The six impromptus formed a single poem with a subject resembling the evangelical parable of the prodigal son. This disc features the performance of Bilder aus Osten by Svyatoslav Richter and Lyudmila Berlinskaya. Robert Schumann first turned to Paganini’s works in 1832 (Six Concert Etudes, Op. 3), and then in 1833 (Six Concert Etudes, Op. 10). To Schumann, Paganini’s caprices were examples of how virtuosic technical means of the instrument could be enriched therefore facilitating the formation of the genre of concert etude. In these compositions, Schumann is a true co-author of Paganini. Schumann’s transcriptions contain lots of additions to the violin original, lots of new melodically bright second parts, for instance, in a sublime and doleful etude No. 4 in C minor included in this album. Schumann wrote Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op. 44, one of his best compositions, in the age of 32 and dedicated it to his wife, an outstanding pianist Clara Wieck. At the concert of 15 December, 1985, Piano Quintet in E flat major was performed by Svyatoslav Richter and the Borodin Quartet which included Mikhail Kopelman (1st violin), Andrei Abramenkov (2nd violin), Dmitri Shebalin (viola) and Valentin Berlinsky (cello).
(1 - 12) - Sviatoslav Richter, piano / Borodin Quartet
(2 - 7) - Ludmila Berlinskaya, piano |
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ID: MELCD1002131
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Subcollection: SaxophoneFirma Melodiya presents an album of concert works by the outstanding Russian composer Alexander Glazunov.
“…An incredibly wide scope, power, inspiration, lightness of mighty moods, wonderful beauty, magnificent fantasy, sometimes humour, melancholy, passion and always amazing clarity and freedom of form”, this is how Vladimir Stasov, a critic and Glazunov’s contemporary, defined the main properties of the composer’s music.
A pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov and Balakirev, and a true successor of the traditions of The Five, Glazunov was also a great admirer of Tchaikovsky’s works and synthesized the two major traditions of the Russian music art of the 19th century in his music.
Glazunov’s Violin Concerto is among the most popular works of the world’s violin literature. The other featured pieces created during the composer’s late period when he lived abroad are less known.
The Concerto Ballata for cello and orchestra was ordered by and dedicated to the great cellist Pablo Casals. The Concerto for saxophone and orchestra was inspired by a performance of the National Guard orchestra in Paris. Amazed with the timbre of the instrument, then very rare in academic music, and a virtuosic performance, he created a piece where the saxophone in combination with string instruments sounds surprisingly softly and songfully in a Russian way.
Glazunov’s compositions are performed by the outstanding Russian musicians such as Viktor Tretiakov (violin), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello) and Lev Mikhailov (saxophone).
Glazunov:
Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 82
Viktor Tretiakov (violin)
The Moscow Symphony Radio Orchestra, Vladimir Fedoseyev
Concerto ballata in C major for cello and orchestra, Op. 108
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
The USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov
Saxophone Concerto in E flat major, Op. 109
Lev Mikhailov (saxophone)
The Moscow Symphony Radio Orchestra Soloists Ensemble, Alexander Korneev |
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ID: MELCD1001677
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Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano |
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ID: MELCD1001472
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Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voice and ChoirAlexander Lazarevich Lokshin (1920-1987) is one of the most talented and original composers of the 20th century. Having remained aloof from the confrontation between the various musical trends, which had erupted so acutely in the musical life of the former Soviet Union during the 1960s and 1970s - the rivalry between the radically avant-garde and the traditional-national trends, the composer was able to create his individual style, in which a contemporary musical language is combined with a foundation on traditions of the high art of the past. Emotional saturation, melodic abundance, harmonical and timbral expressivity, a compositionally-dramaturgical plasticity and freedom, as well as a structural unity - these are all qualities, due to which the music of Lokshin authoritatively attracts the listener to itself and could be recognized and remembered. Of the great conductors of our time, Rudolf Barshai is surely the one most closely associated with the contemporary composers whose music he conducts. He studied composition with Shostakovich discussed orchestration with Prokofiev, and established himself as a forceful advocate of the music of Alexander Lokshin. In 1955 Barshai has founded the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. It was he who first acquainted Russian audiences with Shostakovich’s Fourteenth Symphony, Weinberg’s Symphony No. 7 in C major for strings and harpsichord, Music for chamber orchestra of Sviridov.
(1 - 2) - Text by Johann Goethe, Boris Pasternak
(1 - 23) - Moscow Chamber Orchestra - Rudolf Barshai, conductor
(1 - 7) - Luydmila Sokolenko, soprano
(8 - 23) Nina Grigorieva, contralto
(16 - 23) Moscow Youth Choir- Boris Tevlin, conductor |
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ID: MELCD1001744
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Requiem
Subcollection: Voice and Choir |
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ID: MELCD1001750
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Collection:
Chamber Music
Subcollection: Quartet |
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