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ID: IMLCD163
CDs: 1
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Organ Collection
Subcollection: OrganIsaiah BRAUDO on the E.F. Walcker organ of the Grand Hall of the Leningrad Philharmonic
Live archival recordings made in 1950-1960" from Anastasia Braudo's archive |
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ID: IMLCD167
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Organ Collection
Subcollection: OrganLive archival recordings made in the1960th at the Grand Hall of the Leningrad Philharmonic
Anastasia Braudo, harpsichord (1-14), organ (15-25)
Leningrad Chamber Orchestra conducted by Lazar Gozman (1-3) |
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ID: KAI0012742
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Orchestral Works
Subcollection: OrchestreMessiaen's last composition before he passed away, commissioned by the New York Philharmonic Orchestra for its 150th anniversary, is a fantastic orchestral piece inspired by birds. This Kairos offering is a wonderful live recording by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, performed at Vienna's famous Musikverein. |
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ID: MELCD1002310
CDs: 1
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Chamber Music
Subcollection: Piano and ClarinetFirma Melodiya presents a recording of chamber works by Alban Berg and Olivier Messiaen.
Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano (1913) were created by Alban Berg, one of the pupils of Arnold Schoenberg, the founder of the Second Viennese School, in a period of an intense creative ascent, a year before he began to work on his opera Wozzeck.
Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time is arguably one of the most amazing pages of chamber music of the 20th century. It was composed during the composer’s stay in German prisoner-of-war camp where it was premiered in January of 1941. The epigraph to the entire work was inspired by text from the Book of Revelation:
“And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire ... and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth .... And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever and ever ... that there should be time no longer: But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished.”
The works were first performed in the former USSR for the first time in 1998 at the Gift to the Vine music festival in the Georgian city of Telavi. The festival was initiated by two outstanding Soviet musicians - cellist Natalia Gutman and violinist Oleg Kagan. The composer and pianist Vasily Lobanov and Swiss clarinetist, then a member of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Eduard Brunner, both recognized interpreters of contemporary music, were among the participants of the festival. A year later, the Quartet for the End of Time was performed by the same line-up in Moscow at Sviatoslav Richter’s December Evenings festival at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.
The featured recording was made at one of the last performances of Oleg Kagan who passed away prematurely in 1990.
(1-4) - Eduard Brunner, clarinet / Vasily Lobanov, piano
(5 - 12) - Oleg Kagan, violin / Eduard Brunner, clarinet / Natalia Gutman, cello / Vasily Lobanov, piano |
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ID: MELCD1002349
CDs: 10
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Piano and OrchestraBOX 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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ID: NFPMA9979
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Chamber Music
Subcollection: Piano and CelloThis disc is an effort of Alexey Stadler, young and talented St. Petersburg cellist. The Northern Flowers remain true to their tradition of supporting young musicians. On this CD of Alexey Stadler and Karina Sposobina (piano), you will hear marvelous cello miniatures of Glazunov, Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Desyatnikov, Saint-Saens, Fauré, Verdi, Sibelius, Popper, and Messiaen. |
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ID: RCO9003
CDs: 1
Type: SACD
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Collection:
Orchestral Works
Subcollection: OrchestreRecorded live at Concertgebouw Amsterdam on 8, 9 November 2007 (Dukas/Van Keulen, Dalbavie, Messiaen, and 13, 14 June 2008 (Zuidam)
1 - 12: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, George Benjamin
13 - 15: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Ingo Metzmacher
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra focused extensively on Messiaen in its 2007-8 season. A major musical figure of the 20th-century, Messiaen (1908-1992) created an entirely unique musical oeuvre in which such divergent elements as divinity, as it relates to Catholicism and other doctrines, ornithology and the synaesthetic perception of sound as colour are all interconnected with his innovative rhythmic and harmonic musical language and tonal organisation. As a thinker and teacher, Messiaen carried out groundbreaking work in music during the second half of the century, but his work as a composer has remained unsurpassed. During this special season, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra programmed works not only by Messiaen himself, but also compositions by his musical predecessors, students and disciples, including three premières of works commissioned by the RCO: Geert van Keulen's orchestration of Paul Dukas's La plainte, au loin, du faune…, Marc-André Dalbavie's La source d'un regard (The Source of a Look) and Robert Zuidam's Adam Interludes.
With this second release in the Horizon CD series, dedicated to contemporary repertoire, RCO Live has captured this resounding homage to Olivier Messiaen in superb five-channel stereo. |
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ID: RP031
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection:
Instrumental
Subcollection: PianoXie Ya-ou is een jonge pianiste die faam verwierf door haar vertolking van hedendaagse muziek en daarmee hoog scoorde op internationale wedstrijden te Darmstadt, Pescara, Valsesia maar ook in Parijs waar ze grote indruk maakte met haar interpretatie van de ‘Fünf Klavierstücke op.23' van A. Schönberg. Deze vijf legendarische scharnierwerken in het oeuvre van Schönberg worden feilloos neergezet in hun radicale en geobjectiveerde pracht. In ‘Brouillard' van C. Debussy evoceert ze heel gaaf de harmonische stasis die uitgaat van de polymodaliteit en van de fragiele mozaïekstructuur. En ze schroeit zich niet aan het virtuoze ‘Feux d'artifice'. Zeer interessant is ook het werk van Erwin Schullhoff (1894-1942), een Tsjechisch Joodse componist met tragische levensgeschiedenis. Zijn ‘3° Suite für die linke Hand' uit 1926 verwerkt op schitterend wijze zowel de geest van Debussy - bij wie hij kort in de leer ging- als deze van Bartok en soms is er zelfs een zweem van de zeldzaam dromerige Schönberg op. De hoofdbrok van de CD zijn drie omvangrijke werken van Olivier Messiaen : ‘Le Merle bleu' , ‘Le Baiser de l'Enfant Jésus' en ‘Regard de l'Esprit de joie'. In deze drie zeer contrasterende werken weet ze zowel het contemplatieve, als het extatisch uitbundige feilloos te treffen. Kortom, het is overduidelijk dat de lessen van Zhao Pingguo, Li Mingqiang, Lin Eryao, Wan-Ing Ong, Hans Leygraf, Pascal Devoyon, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Claude Hellfer, Yvonne Loriod-Messiaen, William Grant Naboré, Alicia de Larrocha, Charles Rosen, György Sebók, George Crumb en Gunilde Cramer goed aan deze grote dame besteed waren. In zijn geheel geeft deze CD een indrukwekkend beeld van de veelzijdigheid van deze talentrijke jonge virtuoze die gezwind de wereld aan het veroveren is. De CD is een aanrader voor alle muziekliefhebbers die zowel van het bekende houden als tegen een berekend risico bestand zijn. |
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