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ID: MELCD1001911
Disk: 2
Type: CD
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Kolekce: Piano ConcertoPodkolekce: Piano and Orchestra
22 October, 2011 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Franz Liszt (1811-1886), the brilliant virtuoso pianist, genius composer, renowned educator and music critic, one of the brightest stars of the musical Olympus of the 19th century. As a daring innovator, Liszt stirred up a revolution in both the art of piano playing and composing. Being a classic of the Hungarian national music who imbibed cultural tradition of other countries, Liszt exerted influence upon on the course of European music in general. "If not for Liszt, the fate of new music would have been different," wrote music critic Vladimir Stasov. The piano remained Liszt's favourite instrument throughout his artistic life. His innovative approach to the instrument showed up in his orchestral and symphonic interpretation. He created a multitude of virtuosic transcriptions of his own works and ones composed by others authors such as operatic numbers and songs by Schumann, symphonies by Beethoven. "In the span of its seven octaves, [the piano] embraces the range of a whole orchestra, and the ten fingers of a single man suffice to render the harmonies produced created by the concurrence of a hundred musicians," wrote Liszt. In the field of symphonic music, the composer created a whole new genre - single movement symphonic poem (Tasso, Les préludes, Orpheus, Prometheus and others). This release dedicated to the 200th anniversary of Liszt's birth includes compositions by Franz Liszt performed by some of the best musicians such as Alexander Slobodyanik (his recording of a Hungarian Rhapsody and Piano Sonata in B minor brought him a Franz Liszt award in Hungary, in 1976), Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Vladimir Ashkenazi, Gleb Akselrod, Mark Ermler, Lazar Berman, Vladimir Ovchinnikov and Kirill Kondrashin.
CD 1:
(1) - Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
(2) - Lazar Berman (piano)
(3) - Vladimir Ovchinnikov (piano)
(4) - Gleb Akselrod (piano)
(5) - Alexander Slobodyanik (piano)
CD2:
(1) - Pavel Serebryakov (piano) / Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra - Kirill Kondrashin
(2) - Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra - Gennady Rozhdestvensky
(3 - 5 ) - USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra - Mark Ermler |
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ID: MELCD1002067
Disk: 1
Type: CD
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Kolekce: Piano ConcertoPodkolekce: Piano and Orchestra
Melodiya presents an album of Grigory Ginsburg, a wonderful virtuoso pianist and one of the glorious representatives of the Russian piano school of the 20th century.
Ginsburg’s name is now overshadowed by his some of his better known peers such as Emil Gilels, Sviatoslav Richter, Yakov Flier, Stanislav Neuhaus and others. Meanwhile, in his time in the 1930s-1950s, his concert performances entranced audiences and critics alike.
This album comprises compositions by Franz Liszt and Anton Rubenstein’s Piano Concerto No. 4. Ginsburg’s interpretation of the concerto became a model for musicians of many generations.
Liszt:
Gondoliera, S. 162 No. 1 (from Venezia e Napoli)
Tarantella, S. 162 No. 3 (from Venezia e Napoli)
Au lac de Wallenstadt (Années de pèlerinage I, S. 160 No. 2)
Au bord d'une source (Années de pèlerinage I, S. 160 No. 4)
Les cloches de Genève (Années de pèlerinage I, S. 160 No. 9)
Vallée d'Obermann (Années de pèlerinage I, S. 160 No. 6)
Rubinstein:
Piano Concerto No. 4 in D minor, Op. 70
The State Academic Symphony Orchestra, Aron Shereshevsky
Grigory Ginsburg (piano) |
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ID: MELCD1002179
Disk: 1
Type: CD
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Kolekce: InstrumentalPodkolekce: Klavír
Recorded in 1963
Firma Melodiya presents a recording of Franz Liszt's twelve Transcendental Études performed by Lazar Berman. Once, being on top of his pianistic career, Liszt called his etudes transcendental (supernatural) - no one but him was able to play them. They seemed to be beyond the limits of human abilities. As time went by, pianistic technique took a great step forward, but only few pianists dared play the entire cycle of etudes during the subsequent 20th century. Lazar Berman, a greatest interpreter of Liszt's music among Soviet pianists, was one of them. Born in Leningrad to a musical family, he drew attention as early as he was four years old. He graduated with honors from the Central Music School and Moscow Conservatory where he studied with Alexander Goldenweiser, won the piano competition at the Festival of Youth and Students in Berlin, and received prizes at the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels and the Franz Liszt Piano Competition in Weimar. Overseas performances brought Berman sensational success. "A real titan", "keyboard wizard" said some of the reviews by European and American critics when they wrote about the young pianist's phenomenal technique and brilliant virtuosity. His numerous concerts in Moscow, Leningrad and other cities of the USSR were no less successful. Lazar Berman's performing art was imprinted on numerous recordings which haven't faded for connoisseurs of pianistic culture. |
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ID: MELCD1002234
Disk: 3
Type: CD
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Kolekce: InstrumentalPodkolekce: Klavír
Firma Melodiya presents a set of romantic piano music performed by Vazgen Vartanian.
Vazgen Vartanian is one of the brightest representatives of the new generation of the Russian pianistic school. A graduate of the Moscow Conservatory, he has also studied at the Julliard School in New York where he was conferred the degree of Master of Fine Arts.
At different times, Vartanian was a pupil of such famous masters as Lev Vlassenko, Dmitri Sakharov, Andrey Pisarev and Jerome Lowenthal.
The geography of the pianist’s concerts is vast - he has played at some of the best venues of the world, including Lincoln Center in New York, USA, the Tonhalle in Zurich, Switzerland, the Verdi Milan Conservatoire in Italy, the Seoul Arts Centre in South Korea, and others.
This release features three concert programmes by Vazgen Vartanian, performed at the Big and Small Halls of the Moscow Conservatory, as well as at the concert hall of the Russian Gnessin Music Academy in 2010 and 2011, and dedicated to the 200th anniversaries of three great composers of the romantic period - Frédéric Chopin, Robert Schumann and Franz Liszt.
Chopin:
Ballades Nos. 1-4
Scherzi Nos. 1-4
Liszt:
Réminiscences de "Don Juan" (after Mozart), S. 418
Nuages gris, S199
Benediction de Dieu dans la solitude (Harmonies poétiques et religieuses, S. 173 No. 3)
Consolation, S. 172 No. 3 in D flat major
Sonetto 104 del Petrarca (Années de pèlerinage II, S. 161 No. 5)
Après une lecture du Dante, fantasia quasi sonata (Années de pèlerinage II, S. 161 No. 7)
Vallée d'Obermann (Années de pèlerinage I, S. 160 No. 6)
Schumann:
Blumenstück, Op. 19
Études symphoniques, Op. 13
Fantasiestücke, Op. 111
Romances (3), Op. 28
Vazgen Vartanian (piano) |
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ID: MELCD1002270
Disk: 50
Type: CD
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Kolekce: Piano ConcertoPodkolekce: Klavír
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: MELCD1002312
Disk: 6
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Kolekce: InstrumentalPodkolekce: Klavír
plus:
Disc 6 (DVD)
“Geniuses: Vladimir Sofronitsky,”
a film by Andrei Konchalovsky (2007, 44 min.)
Screenplay by Andrei Konchalovsky
Directed by Andrei Konchalovsky
Directors of photography: Igor Ryabtsev, Dmitri Koval, Igor Skromny
Firma Melodiya and the Andrei Konchalovsky Foundation present a unique set dedicated to the outstanding Russian pianist of the 20th century Vladimir Sofronitsky. Sofronitsky who tolerated no clichés strongly objected to the reputation of a Scriabinist although he found his own inimitable key to Scriabin's music at an early age. Those who had a chance to hear the composer play said that only Sofronitsky was congenial to Scriabin's interpretations. With a hostile attitude to studio work, the pianist felt truly free only in concert. He was able to perform the same piece differently even just a few days later. Every time Sofronitsky played, he re-experienced music, let it through himself as if he confessed before the audience. Perhaps that was the main secret of his magical impact. Many of the remaining concert recordings still preserve that sensation. Five of six discs include recordings made at Vladimir Sofronitsky's recitals in 1951 to 1960, including works of Scriabin, Schumann, Chopin, Schubert, Liszt, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Lyadov, Debussy, Prokofiev and Shostakovich. The sixth disc of the set includes a documentary on Vladimir Sofronitsky filmed by the outstanding contemporary director Andrei Konchalovsky.
Recording information: The Scriabin Memorial Museum (01/08/1960/02/02/1960); The Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory (01/08/1960/02/02/1960); The Scriabin Memorial Museum (05/13/1960); The Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory (05/13/1960); The Scriabin Memorial Museum (06/08/1958); The Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory (06/08/1958); The Scriabin Memorial Museum (11/18/1959); The Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory (11/18/1959); The Scriabin Memorial Museum (11/26/1951); The Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory (11/26/1951); The Scriabin Memorial Museum (1955); The Small Hall of the Moscow Conservatory (1955). |
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ID: MELCD1002349
Disk: 10
Type: CD
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Podkolekce: Piano and Orchestra
BOX 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: MELCD1002386
Disk: 2
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Kolekce: Piano ConcertoPodkolekce: Piano and Orchestra
CD1 - András Schiff, piano
CD2 - A. Schiff, piano / Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra - D. Kitayenko
Firma Melodiya presents never-before-released recordings of András Schiff made at the V Tchaikovsky International Competition in 1974.
One of the most prominent pianists of modern times, András Schiff is nevertheless does not belong to the so-called competition format. The musician who earned the pedestal of philosopher pianist, “a representative of intellectual musical tradition in its high apprehension,” has never had virtuosity, sonic lustre and visual artistry in his sphere of interests.
However, the live recordings of the then 21-year-old Hungarian are of unquestionable interest. Soviet music critic Leonid Gakkel described his impressions of Schiff’s performance in the following way: “From his very first note at the competition Schiff struck me with the vigour of his performance, and that was vigour of the highest festivity… What a touch on the piano, what a charge of energy, what burning fingers! Ultimate activity of a creating spirit at each moment of playing…”
At the competition, Schiff played piano works by Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Prokofiev and Shostakovich, variation cycles and concertos by Tchaikovsky and Brahms. In the opinion of Yevgeny Malinin, a competent judge and professor of the Moscow Conservatory, Schiff “read music without a drop of wilfulness: he lived in and with it.” The panel gave him only the fourth prize (“incomplete correspondence” with general virtuosity and competition standards had an impact). However, it wouldn’t be an overstatement to say that it was the Tchaikovsky Competition that brought the first significant success and international repute to the outstanding pianist. |
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ID: MELCD1002463
Disk: 1
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Podkolekce: Klavír
Firma Melodiya presents a recording of two-piano transcriptions by Franz Liszt and Camille Saint-Saëns performed by the piano duet of Ludmila Berlinskaya and Arthur Ancelle.
“The unity of beautiful souls,” wrote foreign reviewers about the duet. Representatives of famous artistic dynasties (Berlinskaya is a daughter of Valentin Berlinsky, an outstanding cellist, professor and founding member of the Borodin Quartet; Ancelle is a great grandson of the legendary opera diva Fanny Heldy, a grandson of a ballerina and a son of a theatre director) and alumni of different music performing traditions, they began to jointly perform in 2011 and have won the listeners’ hearts in Russia, France and Switzerland. Their joint debut album with Tchaikovsky’s music was highly acclaimed by BBC Music Magazine.
The programme of this album combines two, at first glance, completely different pianistic styles of the 19th century - Liszt and Saint-Saëns. However, the two great musicians took a genuine interest in each other’s works that was expressed in “mutual” transcriptions. Liszt unintentionally introduced the powerful current of his personality into his arrangements. The Dance of Death is an obvious example that makes the comparison between the two piano versions of this symphonic work, one transcribed by Liszt and the other transcribed by the author, even more interesting. On the other way around, a hint of Saint-Saëns is heard in his transcription of Liszt’s B minor Sonata he made for himself and his friend and outstanding French pianist Louis Diémer. The album also includes Liszt’s Après une Lecture de Dante: Fantasia quasi Sonata arranged for two pianos by Arthur Ancelle. |
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ID: MELCD1002487
Disk: 1
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Kolekce: InstrumentalPodkolekce: Klavír
Vladislav Khandogiy, a pianist from Belarus, recently turned 15. However, the young musician has already proved his worth as an unconditional winner of international contests, the latest of which is his honorary diploma of the I International Competition for Young Pianists Grand Piano Competition directed by Denis Matsuev. The award allowed the musician to record a solo album on Melodiya. ''He was distinguished for his playing that was mature beyond his years. He instantly amazed with his mastery, technical abilities and distinctive signature style.'' spoke the outstanding pianist about his younger colleague who he saw for the first time at the II International Competition for Young Pianists in 2014, in Astana, where Vladislav received the first prize. He also has to his credit teh Golden Nutcracker held in Moscow and the first prize of the 2013 Sviridov Competition for Young Performers held in St. Petersburg. Vladislav Khandogiy plays works by Mozart, Chopin, Liszt, Rachmaninoff and Argentinian composer Alberto Ginastera. The selection showcases the young musician's broad performing range, bright artistry and exceptional virtuosity. The album was recorded in 2016. |
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