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RACHMANINOV, Sergey Vasil'yevich - Composers, page 8

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NIGHTINGALES - VASSIL ARNAUDOV - SOFIA CHAMBER CHOIR

NIGHTINGALES - VASSIL ARNAUDOV - SOFIA CHAMBER CHOIR
ID: GD195
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Choral Collection
Subcollection: Choir

The CD includes 23 songs performed by the female chamber choir founded in 1966 and bearing the name of the great choral conductor Vassil Arnaudov after his death. A number of the songs have been practised and sung many times under his direction and it is in this sense that the CD is of retrospective and commemorative character. The ensemble demonstrates its great scope of repertoire, performing works from the Renaissance, Classicism, and the 20th century. Many of the works have long become emblematic for the choir. The Vassil Arnaudov Sofia Chamber Choir is also deeply connected with the Bulgarian compositional output. Some of the works have been performed for the first time by the choir.
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NICOLA GHIUSELEV , bass - ARIAS FROM OPERAS - Verdi, Wagner, Bellini, Mozart, etc...

NICOLA GHIUSELEV , bass - ARIAS FROM OPERAS - Verdi,  Wagner, Bellini, Mozart, etc...
ID: GD200
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Vocal and Opera Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra

Seventeen arias selected not only from his repertoire but also from the bass repertoire treasury is what Nicola Ghiuselev recorded in 1996, the year of his 60th anniversary. This laid the beginning of a series of his recordings with Gega New. The CD represents not only his wide repertoire but also his performing abilities and gives an idea of the artist's excellent vocal form, mastery and technique. The listener can also feel his amazing vitality, musical memory, and culture of style.

Svetoslav Obretenov Bulgarian National Philharmonic Choir Sofia Symphony Orchestra Matodi Matakiev, conduct
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THE ROMANTIC VIOLIN - Sergiu SCHWARTZ, violin - Ruzhka CHARAKCHIEVA, piano

THE ROMANTIC VIOLIN - Sergiu SCHWARTZ, violin - Ruzhka CHARAKCHIEVA, piano
ID: GD211
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subcollection: Piano

The Bulgarian public already knows the violinist Sergiu Schwartz and a number of young violinists have received priceless advice during his master classes. Mr. Schwartz was born in Romania but now lives in Florida, USA. He is a pupil of the Bucharest School of Music, of Rubin Academy in Tel Aviv, of Guildhall School of Music in London and Juilliard School in New York, and is one of the most successful violinists, invited to perform with the most famous orchestras and at prestigious festivals. In this recording he plays on the ex Wilhelmi Lorenzo Storioni violin, made in Cremona in 1780. The idea to bring together some of the most loved both by the public and the performers compositions for violin from the 19th century is accomplished masterly by Sergiu Schwartz and Ruzhka Charakchieva who form a magnificent ensemble. Especially strong is their interpretation of the big sonatas by Brahms - No. 3 in D minor, and by Cesar Franck - in A major, which are basic for every well-known violinist. Dominating in them are the style and the mastered emotion, typical for these composers. At the same time there is a feeling of stability and getting deep to the heart of the message of these works. Sergiu Schwartz has a very beautiful, warm, expressive tone, whose vibrations are in harmony with the emotional content of the performed music. In each virtuoso piece, Schwartz and Charaktchieva emphasize the diversity of ideas and the strength of their personalities as musicians, perfectly synchronized in this programme.


Sergiu Schwartz, violin, Ruzhka Charakchieva, piano
Recorded in Bulgaria Concert Hall, June 1999
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VESSELIN STANEV, piano - CHOPIN - RAVEL - RACHMANINOV

VESSELIN STANEV, piano - CHOPIN - RAVEL - RACHMANINOV
ID: GD219
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano

Recorded in Bulgaria Concert Hall, Sofia, January 2000

The second CD of the pianist Vesselin Stanev presents him as an excellent interpreter of music by Chopin, Ravel and Rachmaninov. Vesselin Stanev has chosen works of the highest pianistic class and proves again his exceptional talent. He has been student of Dmitriy Bachkirov, a celebrated representatives of the Russian keyboard school, and later continued perfecting his skills with the well-known Alexis Weissenberg. Stanev is holder of several prestigious prizes in international competitions. He enjoys an active concert-giving career in France, where he has been living for years, in Austria, Switzerland, Germany, Moscow and Bulgaria. Musical critics rank him with the greatest pianists of the 20th century and continuously emphasize on his power, insight and temperament of performance. The performer's originality of ideas, form-construction and exceptional musicality are the characteristics that create the strongest impression in his interpretations. In addition, he possesses a well-mastered and appropriately used virtuosity, organically linked with the whole concept about the composition he perfroms. The magnificence of Chopin's 24 Preludes and Rachmaninov's Sonata No. 2 prove all the pianist's gifts. On the other hand, the richness of nuances and images, revealed with impressionistic finesse and fantasy in Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit, show him as a great master of the sound and a pianist who is capable of suggesting emotions, ideas, psychological states and romantic elеgance, and who controls in details all the subtleties of his instrument.
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IRINA GEORGIEVA plays RACHMANINOFF

IRINA GEORGIEVA plays RACHMANINOFF
ID: GD262
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subcollection: Piano

Irina Georgieva, piano

Recorded in Bulgaria Concert Hall, Sofia, on 5-7 March 2011

Sonata No. 2 in B-flat minor op. 36
[1] Allegro agitato 7’29’’
[2] Non allegro. Lento 5’47’’
[3] L’istesso tempo. Allegro molto 4’44’’

Seven Preludes for Piano op. 23
[4] No. 1 in F-sharp Minor - Largo 3’00’’
[5] No. 2 in B-flat Major - Maestoso 3’13’’
[6] No. 3 in D Minor - Tempo di minuetto 3’11’’
[7] No. 4 in D Major - Andante cantabile 3’49’’
[8] No. 5 in G Minor - Alla Marcia 3’46’’
[9] No. 6 in E-flat Major - Andante 2’38’’
[10] No. 7 in C Minor - Allegro 2’33’’

Variations on a Theme of Corelli op. 42
[11] Theme 0’54’’
[12] Variation I 0’30’’
[13] Variation II 0’26’’
[14] Variation III 0’32’’
[15] Variation IV 0’52’’
[16] Variation V 0’19’’
[17] Variation VI 0’20’’
[18] Variation VII 0’28’’
[19] Variation VIII 0’59’’
[20] Variation IX 1’20’’
[21] Variation X 0’34’’
[22] Variation XI 0’22’’
[23] Variation XII 0’36’’
[24] Variation XIII 0’37’’
[25] Intermezzo XIV 1’08’’
[26] Variation XV 1’05’’
[27] Variation XVI 1’24’’
[28] Variation XVII 0’31’’
[29] Variation XVIII 0’59’’
[30] Variation XIX 0’36’’
[31] Variation XX 0’33’’
[32] Variation XXI 1’00’’
[33] Coda 1’29’’

Irina Georgieva started her musical career at the age of six in Sofia, Bulgaria, receiving the first prize in a regional music competition. She gave her first solo concert at the age of eight. Prizes follow from prestigious international competitions. While still a student at the National Academy of Music in Sofia she performed with the philharmonic orchestras of Sofia, Varna, Pleven, Shumen. In 2001 she won a scholarship from the “Gerber ten Bosch” Foundation and continued her studies in Switzerland at the Music Academy of Basel with Rudolf Buchbinder, who states: “Irina Georgieva is one of the most outstanding piano students encountered during my 35 years of teaching. Her excellent sound culture in connection with stupendous technique, instinctive sense of style, strong personality and charisma predict a great pianistic career for Irina Georgieva.” She brilliantly completed the Basel Music Academy (Concert and Soloist Diploma) having played an integral of works by Sergei Rachmaninoff. The pianist has participated in various competitions and has always been among the laureates. She has played in Switzerland, Italy, France, England, Morocco. Her repertoire includes music from the Baroque to the present. This is what the great piano teacher Lazar Berman says about her: “Irina Georgieva is a very talented artist. Her interpretations are always original, her sound is beautiful, her artistic potential boundless.”
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"ORTHODOX CHANTS" - Vassil Arnaudov Sofia Chamber Choir- Theodora Pavlovitch

"ORTHODOX CHANTS"  - Vassil Arnaudov Sofia Chamber Choir- Theodora Pavlovitch
ID: GD292
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Sacred Music
Subcollection: Choir

It begins with John Koukouzeles and 18th and 19th century anonymous works, goes on to Dobri Hristov, Petar Dinev, the Russian composers P. I. Tchaikovsky, D. Noskov, K. Shvedov, S. Rachmaninov, P. Chesnokov and then features works by contemporary Bulgarian composers of the second half of the 20th century: Ivan Spassov, Alexander Tanev , and Alexander Tekeliev . The release is thus like an anthology of the various styles of East-Orthodox church music and the booklet includes the respective texts of the chants.
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PAVEL GERDJIKOV - Opera Arias & Duets

PAVEL GERDJIKOV - Opera Arias & Duets
ID: GD331
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Opera & Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra

The Bulgarian opera school is well-known throughout the world. Many Bulgarian opera singers perform at the most renowned opera stages and impress with their performance. One of them is the bass Pavel Gerdjikov. What makes him different from other famous Bulgarian singers is that he builds his career mainly in Bulgaria along with his numerous guest-performances which have made him world-famous.
Pavel Gerdjikov has taken an interest in music ever since his early childhood: he had violin and piano lessons, played in orchestras, sang in choirs, conducted… He studied at the Sofia Academy of Music under Prof. Anna Todorova and Prof. Ilia Yosifov and as he admits himself, many of his teachers in theoretical subjects left a lasting influence upon him: Prof. Stoyan Djudjev, Lyubomir Pipkov, Dragan Kardjiev. His first appointment was in the Berlin Comische Oper. In 1962 he was enlisted with the Sofia Opera and since then he has participated in all its productions. He has performed with the greatest opera names in Bulgaria: Lyubomir Bodurov, Dimitar Uzunov, Nikolai Ghiaurov, Nikola Nikolov, Alexandrina Milcheva, Raina Kabaivanska, Valeri Popova, Dimitar Petkov, Assen Selimsky, Milkana Nikolova, Liliana Bareva … He has worked with renowned conductors and directors in many countries world-wide: in almost all big European opera theatres and stages, in Japan, Australia, America. In one of his interviews Pavel Gerdjikiv mentions some of his participations: Don Juan - the performances in Salzburg with the Mozarteum Orchestra, The Queen of Spades in Gleinborn, some of his concerts in Melbourne and Sydney, the Tchaikovsky recital at the Richter Festival in Moscow. In the Mozart Sal in Vienna he sang in Shostakovich’s 14th Symphony, which was a premiere of the work outside the then USSR.
His repertoire includes all famous traditional bass parts. But besides them, he participates as a soloist in Bulgarian opera and cantata-oratorial works. He is deeply convinced that “it is impossible for a person to become a complete actor, singer or musician if he lacks in his own national musical culture… When I started studying at the Academy, I sang songs by Dobri Hristov, Pancho Vladigerov, Lyubomir Pipkov, Goleminov. After that I started singing the Fourth Symphony and The Boyana Master by Konstantin Iliev, The Apology of Socrates by Simeon Pironkov, Pentagram for bass and orchestra by Ivan Marinov. Still later I turned to the songs cycle “Foreign Poets” by Lyubomir Pipkov, and then I began to get interested in Shostakovich, his 13th and 14th Symphony… Thanks to the Bulgarian music, I began to get interested in Honegger, Bartok, Britten, Shostakovich (also the songs). Bulgarian music provoked me and opened my mind to the foreign contemporary music.
Pavel Gerdjikov is also an opera director. His preferences in this field are connected not only with the classical opera repertoire, but also with contemporary Bulgarian and foreign music. Besides developing his career as a singer and a director, Pavel Gerdjikov devotes a lot of time to his teaching activity. In 1970 he started teaching at the Academy of Music in Sofia and he is still one of the most loved teachers among the students. This is not surprising, having in mind that he is a great actor and a highly-accomplished person, with an affinity to the refined style of speaking. His students have the opportunity to know a really encyclopaedic personality, who reveals to them the vast world of art.

With the participation of: Milkana Nikolova, Liliana Bareva, Mincho Popov, Assen Selimsky
Chamber Orchestra, Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductors: Pasquale Rispoli, Alexander Vladigerov, Vassil Stefanov, Mihail Angelov
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The Russian Legacy - Zara Dolukhanova

The Russian Legacy - Zara Dolukhanova
ID: GHCD2281_4
CDs: 4
Type: CD
Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Legendary Voices

Performer: Zara Dolukhanova, Berta Kozel, N. Rozov, Galina Sakharova, Rostislav Dubinsky, Alexander Yeroklin, Valentin Berlinsky, Ivan Kozlovsky, Andrei Ivanov, Georgi Orentlikher, Nina Svetlanova, Alexander Dolukhanian, Anton Ossipovich Bernard, Nadezhda Kazantseva
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Grieg and Rachmaninov - Timothy Gill, cello / Fali Pavri, piano

Grieg and Rachmaninov - Timothy Gill, cello  / Fali Pavri, piano
ID: GMCD7127
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Piano and Cello

Recorded at Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London 1996
Here is a rare coupling - the two great Romantic Cello Sonatas from the late 19th-century era of high-romanticism, joined on one CD, together with other music for cello and piano by Grieg and Rachmaninov.
The performances, by this highly-acclaimed young duo, are of exceptional passion and refinement, and the quality of the recording is one of the best Guild has achieved in recent years - which is saying a lot.
These two Sonatas - both of which were played in concert by Pablo Casals with their respective composers - have, in recent years, become to be recognised as high-points in the cello repertoire and have enjoyed a growing and enthusiastic audience for their inspired qualities.
They make a superb coupling, and in addition, we include some rare shorter music for cello and piano by both composers.
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The Low Bass - Great Art Songs from the Bass Repertoire- Music by Schubert, Wolf, Saint-Saëns, Flégier, Strauss etc...

The Low Bass  - Great Art Songs from the Bass Repertoire- Music by Schubert,  Wolf,  Saint-Saëns,  Flégier,  Strauss etc...
ID: GMCD7244
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano

Recorded: Seltzer Sound, New York City 16 October and 18 December 2001
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