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ID: MELCD1001240 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Chamber Music Subcollection: Piano and Quartet Typically stirring and passionate Russian sounding performances of these two lyrical and popular pieces. As ever the Moscow String Quartet play with their customary musicianship and brilliance.
Mendelssohn:
Piano Quartet No.3 in B minor, Op.3
Taneyev:
Piano Quintet in G minor, Op. 30
Tigran Alikhanov (piano)
Moscow String Quartet |
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ID: MELCD1001748 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Violin Concerto Subcollection: Violin (1 - 7) - Boris Goldstein, violin
(1 - 3) - Chamber Orchestra of Moscow State Conservatory - M. Terian, conductor
( 4) - Symphony Orchestra of Moscow State Philharmonic Society - Gennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor
(5 - 7) - USSR State Symphony Orchestra - Nathan Rakhlin, conductor |
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ID: MELCD1001860 CDs: 5 Type: CD |
Collection: Great Performers Subcollection: Piano and Cello The International Tchaikovsky Competition symbolises the prestige of world class art and is a true apotheosis of Russian culture. These are the Competition’s first-ever releases featuring the gold winners in each of the four disciplines. Listeners will appreciate exquisite performances by genius musicians.
CD 1 - V. Cliburn, piano / CD 2 - J. Marsh, soprano / CD 3 - V. Atlantov, tenor / CD 4 - V. Klimov, violin / CD 5 - N. Shakhovskaya, cello /
Beethoven - Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor, Op. 57 'Appassionata' (Rec.1958) - Van Cliburn (piano)
Bizet - La fleur que tu m'avais jetée (from Carmen) - (Rec.1966) - Vladimir Atlantov (tenor) / Bolshoi Theater Orchestra, Mark Ermler
Borodin -Medlenno den ugasal (Slowly the day has faded) (from Prince Igor) (Rec.1966) -Vladimir Atlantov (tenor) / Bolshoi Theater Orchestra, Mark Ermler
Brahms -Cello Sonata No. 1 In E Minor, Op. 38 -(Rec.1982) -Natalia Shakhovskaya (cello), A Amentaeva (piano)
A. Gurilyov - Monotonously Rings the Little Bell -(Rec.1973)- Vladimir Atlantov (tenor) / State Academic Bolshoi Theatre Sextet
Haydn - Cello Concerto No. 1 in C major, Hob. VIIb:1 -(Rec.1969) -Natalia Shakhovskaya (cello) /
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Maxim Shostakovich
Leoncavallo - Recitar!...Vesti la giubba (from I Pagliacci) - (Rec.1966) - Vladimir Atlantov (tenor) / Bolshoi Theater Orchestra, Mark Ermler
Liszt- Liebestraum, S541 No. 3 (Nocturne in A flat major) - (Rec.1958) - Van Cliburn (piano)
Mendelssohn - Violin Concerto in E minor, Op. 64 -(Rec.1967) -Valery Klimov (violin) / USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Maxim Shostakovich
Mozart - Ach, ich fühl's (from Die Zauberflöte, K620) -(Rec.1966) -Jane Marsh (soprano) / Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Mark Ermler
Nápravník - I tak, vse koncheno, sud'boy neumolimoy (So, everything, is over) (from Dubrovsky, Op. 58) - (Rec.1966) - Vladimir Atlantov (tenor) / Bolshoi Theater Orchestra, Mark Ermler
Puccini - Tu che di gel sei cinta (from Turandot) - (Rec.1966) - Jane Marsh (soprano) / Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Mark Ermler
Puccini - E lucevan le stelle (from Tosca) - (Rec.1973) - Vladimir Atlantov (tenor) / Bolshoi Theater Orchestra, Mark Ermler
A. Sheremetiev - Ya vas ljubil (I Loved You) -(Rec.1973) -Vladimir Atlantov (tenor) / State Academic Bolshoi Theatre Sextet
Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23 -(Rec.1958) - Van Cliburn (piano) / Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Kirill Kondrashin
Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 - (Rec.1977) -Valery Klimov (violin) / Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitri Kitayenko
Tchaikovsky - Zabït tak skoro (So soon forgotten) - (Rec.1966) - Jane Marsh (soprano), L Farr (piano)
Tchaikovsky - Puskay pogibnu ya 'Tatiana's Letter Scene' (from Eugene Onegin) -(Rec.1966) - Jane Marsh (soprano) / USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Boris Haikin
Tchaikovsky - Den' li tsarit? (Does the day reign?), Op. 47 No. 6 - (Rec.1972) - Vladimir Atlantov (tenor), Farida Khalilova (piano)
Tchaikovsky - None but the lonely heart, Op. 6 No. 6 - (Rec.1972) - Vladimir Atlantov (tenor), Farida Khalilova (piano)
Tchaikovsky - Serenada Don-Zhuana (Don Juan's Serenade), Op. 38 No. 1 -(Rec.1971) -Vladimir Atlantov (tenor), Farida Khalilova (piano)
Tchaikovsky - Zakatilos solntse (The sun has set), Op. 73 No. 4 - (Rec.1971) - Vladimir Atlantov (tenor), Farida Khalilova (piano)
Tchaikovsky - Forgive me, loveliest of creatures (from Pique Dame) - (Rec.1966) - Vladimir Atlantov (tenor) /Bolshoi Theater Orchestra, Mark Ermler
Tchaikovsky - Chto nasha zhizn’? Igra! (The Queen of Spades) - (Rec.1966) -Vladimir Atlantov (tenor) /
Bolshoi Theater Orchestra, Mark Ermler
Tchaikovsky - Forgive me, loveliest of creatures (from Pique Dame) - (Rec.1966) -Vladimir Atlantov (tenor) / USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Boris Haikin
Verdi - Mia madre aveva...Piangea cantando...Ave Maria (from Otello) - (Rec.1966) -Jane Marsh (soprano) / Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra, Mark Ermler
Verdi - Giá nella notte densa (from Otello) - (Rec.1966) - Vladimir Atlantov (tenor), Jane Marsh (soprano) / USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Boris Haikin
Verdi - Se quel guerrier io fossi!…Celeste Aida (from Aida) - (Rec.1966) - Vladimir Atlantov (tenor) /
Bolshoi Theater Orchestra, Mark Ermler / USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Boris Haikin
Total time: 277.57 |
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ID: MELCD1001931 CDs: 5 Type: CD |
Collection: Violin Concerto Subcollection: Violin and Orchestra "On stage, Oistrakh produces an impression of a colossus. He firmly stands on the ground, he holds his violin proudly, and he creates music that finds expression in an endless stream of beauty and grace", wrote the great violin player Isaac Stern. Among the numerous famous performers the 20th century gave to the world, David Oistrakh ranks especially high. "… one of the really great violinists of our time. Oistrakh is great not because he is a virtuoso, but because he is a genuine, inspired musician," wrote the press during his first coming to the United States in 1955. Oistrakh had to play the very first concert of that tour on the same day with performances of Nathan Milstein and Mischa Elman (Joseph Szigeti played on the same day at another venue in New York). Fritz Kreisler who was in the house expressed his admiration for Oistrakh after the concert. Firma Melodiya presents a set of recordings by the great musician of this country. Oistrakh recorded violin concertos by Bach, Mozart, Viotti, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Dvorak, and Taneyev in the 1950s and 1960s in the prime of his performing career jointly with some of the best conductors of the previous century such as Nikolai Malko, Herbert von Karajan, Alexander Gauk, Kirill Kondrashin and Gennady Rozhdestvensky. The performances of Brahms's and Franck's sonatas by David Oistrakh and Sviatoslav Richter also featured in this set once was unanimously recognized by domestic and foreign audiences as one of the best achievements of the 20th century in the field of chamber music.
CD 1
David Oistrakh, violin
Moscow Philarmonic Orchestra - Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
London Philharmonic Orchestra - Nikolai Malko, conductor
Total time: 77:08
CD 2
David Oistrakh, violin
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra / USSR State Symphony Orchestra - Kirill Kondrashin, conductor
Total time: 70:59
CD 3
David Oistrakh, violin and Sviatoslav Richter, piano
Total time: 72:24
CD 4
David Oistrakh, violin
USSR State Symphony Orchestra - Kirill Kondrashin, conductor
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra - Alexander Gauk, conductor
Total time: 72:44
CD 5
David Oistrakh, violin
Philadelphia Orchestra - Eugene Ormandy
London Philharmonic Orchestra - David Oistrakh, conductor
USSR State Symphony Orchestra - Kirill Kondrashin, conductor
Total time: 69:21 |
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ID: MELCD1002270 CDs: 50 Type: CD |
Collection: Piano Concerto Subcollection: Piano For the 100th anniversary of Sviatoslav Richter, Firma Melodiya presents its
arguably biggest project in its semicentennial history.
The name of Sviatoslav Richter is inscribed in gold in the history of music.
He was not just “more than a pianist,” he was even more than a musician. An owner
of composing, conducting, artistic, directing and acting gifts, a connoisseur of literature,
arts and philosophy, with a will of iron he made all his gifts serve the art of
pianism. An “artist of planetary scale,” as of the critics put it, Richter was like that in
everything - in his unbounded repertoire that he never stopped replenishing until
his last years, in his priestly frenzy of hours-long rehearsals, in the geography and
number of performances, - over 3 500 concerts in 770 places of the world for 55
years of his musical career! (“He was somewhat fathomless, Richter,” said one of his
famous colleagues). However, after he conquered the world (almost literally), he remained
indifferent to ovation and eulogies of the press, painfully experienced each
of the “defects” he noticed in his performance, and at the end of his way confessed
before the journalist Bruno Monsaingeon: “I don’t like myself.”
Of course we inherited numerous recordings from Sviatoslav Richter, live
and studio ones (although he preferred the former to the latter). Hundreds of records
and CDs have been released on domestic and foreign labels (the first of them,
gramophone ones, appeared in the 1940’s while some others became available as
late as in this century). However, even the existing body of recordings captures
neither his complete repertoire nor the entire essence of Richter’s
pieces could sound differently over the years, or even over a day!
And now, Firma Melodiya that recently marked its 50th birthday makes a
unique present for both sophisticated experts and a broad circle of music lovers -
a 50-CD set of Sviatoslav Richter’s concert recordings!
It has to be understood that this collection is far from the complete phonographic
legacy of the great musician. Nevertheless, the set includes plenty of
exclusive, previously unreleased recordings that will make the hearts of even
most erudite connoisseurs and collectors rejoice.
Most of the featured recordings are broadcasts from the concerts played in
Moscow in 1962 to 1983. However, the exceptions are of special interest. These are:
• one of the first Sviatoslav Richter’s extant concert programmes -
Schubert’s last sonata and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition (1949);
• recording of the concert with Nina Dorliak in Bucharest, in 1958;
• recordings of “home” rehearsals with Nina Dorliak.
Alexander Scriabin’s Prometheus, on which he plays a “modest” piano
part in an orchestra, is evidence of Richter’s extremely broad musical interests, or
the recordings of J.S. Bach’s ensemble concertos together with students of the
Moscow Conservatory.
Perhaps the listeners will find a number of “repetitive” tracks surprising.
Richter played (and recorded) many works time and again. Some of them allow us
to track the evolution of the pianist’s art, testify to his constant creative search
and dissatisfaction with himself (the interpretations of Berg’s concertos with different
performers, different versions of Schubert’s Sonata No. 6, Beethoven’s Third
Concerto and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition at an interval of ten and twenty
years, respectively). Some other recordings were played in a shorter stretch of
time (Beethoven’s Sonata No. 1, Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 2), or in succession - from
the mid 1970’s. Considering the growing interest of the public, Richter frequently,
fully or partly, repeated his programmes. So, at an interval of one day he played
Mozart’s Concerto No. 18 and Rachmaninoff’s Etudes-tableaux. In those unique
phonographic documents, a keen ear will detect barely perceptible “atmospheric”
changes that captured an inner aura of a certain concert as each of them was a new
test for the pianist in terms uncompromising strictness to himself, a new step on
the way to Absolute Music.
Berg:
Chamber Concerto for Piano and Violin with 13 Wind Instruments
Brahms:
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83
Rhapsody in G minor, Op. 79 No. 2
Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 100
Violin Sonata No. 3 in D minor, Op. 108
Violin Sonata No. 1 in G major, Op. 78
Britten:
Piano Concerto, Op. 13
Debussy:
Préludes - Book 2 (12, complete)
Cloches à travers les feuilles (No. 1 from Images pour piano - Book 2)
Dvorak:
Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 33
Franck, C:
Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 14
Violin Sonata in A major
Liszt:
Erlkönig (No. 4 from Zwölf Lieder von Franz Schubert, S558)
Concerto pathétique for Piano and Orchestra, S365a
Mendelssohn:
Variations sérieuses in D minor Op. 54
Mozart:
Piano Concerto No. 22 in E flat major, K482
Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major, K595
Mussorgsky:
Pictures at an Exhibition (piano version)
Prokofiev:
Piano Sonata No. 2 in D minor, Op. 14
Piano Sonata No. 4 in C minor, Op. 29
Piano Sonata No. 6 in A major, Op. 82
Violin Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op. 80
Piano Concerto No. 5 in G major, Op. 55
Ravel:
Valses nobles et sentimentales
Piano Trio in A minor
Schubert:
Piano Sonata No. 21 in B flat major, D960
Piano Sonata No. 6 in E minor, D566
Piano Sonata No. 13 in A major, D664
Piano Sonata No. 11 in F minor, D625
Klavierstücke (3), D946
Schumann:
Faschingsschwank aus Wien, Op. 26
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54
Scriabin:
Piano Sonata No. 7, Op. 64 'White Mass'
Prometheus (The Poem of Fire), Op. 60
Shostakovich:
Violin Sonata, Op. 134
Viola Sonata, Op. 147
Wagner:
Elegy in A flat |
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ID: MELCD1002406 CDs: 2 Type: CD |
Collection: Cello Collection Subcollection: Piano and Cello Pianos:
CD1:
Naum Walter (1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 12, 14)
Alexander Arutiunian (2)
Igor Aptekarev (4, 9, 11)
Victor Yampolsky (8)
Igor Aptekarev (4, 9, 11)
Arnold Kaplan (13)
Pianos:
CD2.
Naum Walter (1, 3, 5, 7, 12, 15)
Alexander Arutiunian (8)
Igor Aptekarev (9, 11, 13)
Victor Yampolsky (2, 6)
Igor Aptekarev (9, 11, 13)
Arnold Kaplan (4)
Victor Makarov (10, 14) |
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ID: MKM156 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Great Performers Subcollection: Piano |
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ID: MKM159 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Great Performers Subcollection: Violin 1-3, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Lawrence Foster, conductor
4-6, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink, conductor |
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ID: MKM305 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Violin Concerto Subcollection: Violin and Orchestra Track 1-3
The USSR State Symphony, Evgeni Svetlanov, conductor
Recorded live at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire 24.04.1960
Track 4-7
The USSR TV and Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, conductor
Recorded live 27.12.1970 |
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