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ID: MELCD1002466
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Collection:
Vocal and Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voice and Trio
(1-14) - Arr. Daniel Kramer
Trio of Daniel Kramer:
Sergei Vassiliev, double bass
Pavel Timofeev, drums
Daniil Kramer, piano
The programme includes rousing and lyrical jazz improvisations, unexpected arrangements and fantasias on the pieces of classical, jazz and popular music composers. The crossover is a synthesis of very different musical styles. Hibla and Trio of Daniel Kramer were inspired to create a jazz/classical experiment a few years ago, but have had to wait torealise their ambition. It took more than a year to select the repertoire, discuss details and make arrangements. The result is a programme built on contrasts. There is Schubert’s Ave Maria and an unusual arrangement of Mozart’s Alleluia, Glinka’s Inesilia in a completely different guise, and the jazz hit Fly Me to the Moon. Combining classical depth and aesthetics with jazz harmonies and rhythms, an operatic voice with a swinging trio is not an easy task to accomplish, but Hibla Gerzmava and Trio of Daniel Kramer come through with flying colours. |
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ID: MELCD1002456
CDs: 1
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Collection:
Chamber Music
Subcollection: TrioLubotsky 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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ID: MELCD1002451
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Chamber Music
Subcollection: Quintet(1-9) Alexey Goribol, piano / Ilya Ioff, violin / Alexey Massarsky, cello
(5-9) - Lidiya Kovalenko, violin / Andrey Dogadin, viola |
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ID: MELCD6001682
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Jazz
Subcollection: Saxophone |
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ID: MELCD1002436
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Choral Collection
Subcollection: Choir and Piano
The Boys Choir of the Glinka Choir College
Conductor - Vladimir Begletsov
Alexey Goribol, piano |
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ID: MELCD6000701
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Jazz
Subcollection: Voice and EnsembleAlto Saxophone - Boris Kurganov
Bass Guitar - Alex Rostotsky
Guitar - Jorge Strunz, Rinat Shaimukhametov
Instruments (Mohrsung) - Ramnad V.Raghavan
Kanjira - Rangachari
Keyboards - Mark Massey, Nikolay Levinovsky
Mridangam - Srinivasan
Percussion - Yury Genbachev
Percussion (Tavil) - K.Shekar
Synthesizer - Taras Snider
Tambura (Tamboura) - Granesan
Violin - L.Subramaniam
Voice (Connacall) - Dutt Rreel |
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ID: MELCD1002399
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano |
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ID: MELCD1002413
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Bassoon Collection
Subcollection: Bassoon and OrchestraFirma Melodiya presents recordings of concertos for bassoon and orchestra performed by young soloists of the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra.
Rodion Tolmachev is one of the best Russian bassoonists of the new generation. A graduate of the St. Petersburg Conservatory and the Hannover University of Music, he has received prizes of a number of prestigious domestic and international competitions, including the first prizes of the Rimsky-Korsakov All-Russian Competition of Woodwind Instrument Performers in St. Petersburg and the Fernand Gillet-Hugo Fox Bassoon Competition in Provo, Utah, USA, a Grand Prize of the Japan Wind and Percussion Competition in Tokyo, a bronze medal of the ARD International Quintet Competition in Munich, and a Yamaha award, and also became a laureate of the European Cultural Foundation in Strasbourg.
Tolmachev is a soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre Orchestra since 2004, performing with it around the world and participating in solo and ensemble concert programmes. Tolmachev’s solo album with bassoon works by French composers was released on the German label Dobringen und Grimm in 2012. Our release features works for bassoon and orchestra written in different ages - three concertos by Antonio Vivaldi (the history of the bassoon as an independent concert instrument began with his music), a romantic, radiant with bright colours concerto by Carl Maria von Weber, and an elegant, neo classical Concertino for bassoon, harp, piano and strings by the 20th century French master André Jolivet.
The chamber line-up of the celebrated orchestra of the Mariinskly Theatre is conducted by clarinetist and conductor Ivan Stolbov, a student of Alexander Titov and Vassily Sinaisky in the class of symphonic conducting of the St. Petersburg Conservatory. |
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ID: MELCD1002446
CDs: 1
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Collection:
Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voice, Piano and Orchestra (1-2) Yan Kratov, baritone / Moscow Chamber Orchestra - Rudolf Barshai, conductor (Alexander Lokshin - Boris Pasternak)
(3-4) - Ivan Mozgovenko, clarinet / Komitas Quartet (Alexander Lokshin)
(5) - Maria Grinberg, piano (Alexander Lokshin)
Alexander Lazarevich Lokshin (1920-1987) was one of the most original representatives of the Russian school of the 20th century and unfortunately underrated in his lifetime. A pupil of Nikolai Myaskovsky and a friend of Dmitri Shostakovich, whom admired his music, Lokshin was a creator of his individual style with an organic blend of symphonic, chamber and vocal genres.
His two-movement Symphony No. 5 (1969) is the composer’s characteristic type of “symphony with voice” written for baritone and chamber orchestra and based on Shakespeare’s Sonnets 66 and 73 (translated into Russian by Boris Pasternak). The quintet for clarinet and strings (1955) also has two parts: a slow one, where, according to the composer, “Shostakovich and Vertinsky were combined in a very paradoxical way,” is followed by variations
inspired by Stravinsky’s style. The two large cycles are supplemented with an earlier piece, Variations for Piano (1953), written “in the vein of Shostakovich” and dedicated to Maria Grinberg, an outstanding Soviet pianist and successor of Felix Blumenfeld’s school.
Alexander Lokshin’s works are performed by some of the most prominent Russian musicians of the previous century: Symphony No. 5 is performed by Rudolf Barshai, a friend and admirer of the composer, and creator of the first Soviet chamber orchestra, and Yan Kratov, a soloist of the Moscow Stanislavsky and Nemirovich-Danchenko Academic Music Theatre; the quintet features Ivan Mozgovenko, a clarinettist and People’s Artist of Russia, and the Komitas Quartet, one of the oldest chamber ensembles of this country; and the piano variations are performed by Maria Grinberg. |
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