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ID: MELCD1001404
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Violin Concerto
Subcollection: Piano and Violin
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Melodiya offers a new digital restoration of these recordings featuring Leonid Kogan performing the Brahms Sonata for Violin & Piano No.3 with his daughter Nina and the Beethoven Violin Concerto with the USSR ASO conducted by his son Pavel.
(1 - 4) - Leonid Kogan (violin) / Nina Kogan (piano)
(5 - 7) - Leonid Kogan (violin) / USSR Academic Symphony Orchestra - Pavel Kogan, conductor |
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ID: MELCD1001445
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Requiem
Subcollection: Voice and Organ
Recorded in the Great Hall of the Moscow Conservatory in 1977, this performance by a famous Russian choir demonstrates their sonorous chorus technique and sound. The powerful basses give an added dimension.
The traditional Latin text of requiem mass repeatedly attracted attention of the most prominent composers in the world history. Some of them could discover new contents of austere divine service texts - that was the way the masterpieces like Mozart’s and Verdi’s ones appeared. The German composer of the 17th century Heinrich Schutz was the first who turned to the scriptural texts in his mother tongue translated by Martin Luther. Johannes Brahms followed him and named his requiem “German”. The passages, taken from Old and New Testaments and united in the composition, do not correspond the established order of the requiem mass. Probably, Brahms’ “Requiem” is some meditation on caducity of human life and inevitability of physical death that is expressed in vocal and symphony genre. Brahms was hatching the idea of this composition within ten years. His close friend Robert Chopin’s tragic death became some “starting point” of the idea. Moreover, his mother’s death served as reasonable grounds for completing of what had been started. The Old and New Testaments texts united in the composition form the basis of seven diverse parts. The first and the last parts - “Blessed are they that mourn…” and “Blessed are the dead…”- organically frame the cycle. The meditation on Death (“For all flesh is as grass…”) in the second part is balanced by the idea of Resurrection (“For here have we no continuing city…”) in the sixth one. The mournful third part (“Lord, make me know mine end…”) finds its consolation in the fifth one. The central part of the Requiem “How lovely are thy tabernacles” makes gradual transition from sorrow and mourns to hope for life after death. The Yurlov State Academic Chorus was named after Alexander Yurlov soon after the death of the talented musician and choir conductor. His unexpected death happened when the choir was rocketing to its peak of mastery. The group was obliged with this success to its brilliant leader. Within those fated 15 years that Alexander Yurlov and the choir worked together (1958-1973) they won fame of the best alliance of the singers and the conductor in the Russian chorus music of the Soviet period. Juri Ukhov who worked as chapel master of the choir since 1964 was brought up and matured in the heart of the choir. At that time he was a witness of brilliant performance of Brahms’ “Ein Deutches Requiem” and “Schicksalslied”. Several years later he got an opportunity to perform “Requiem” in the concert. The recording from the Great Hall of Moscow Conservatory gives the bright idea of the sonorous chorus manner of singing that was made of mellow timbre of female choir, silver ringing of tenors and powerful basses. The latter were especially valued for their uniqueness and fascination in our country.
Nadezhda Krasnaya (soprano), Sergei Yakovenko (baritone)
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitri Kitayenko
The Yurlov State Russian State Academic Choir -Yuri Ukhov |
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ID: MELCD1001860
CDs: 5
Type: CD
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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
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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: MELCD1001938
CDs: 5
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Cello and Orchestra
Daniil Borisovich Shafran had a creative career of more than 60 years and music journalist Artyom Vagraftik described him as “…a man who was literally chained to his cello and who imagined no life without constant communication with music.”
In this 5 CD collection, he performs works by Bach, Chopin, Rachmaninov, Brahms, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Boccherini, Haydn and Tchaikovsky.
“Paganini of the 21st century,” “a musician … possessing the most melodious sound among all the existing string performers,” “…his art reaches the borders of supernatural” - these are some of enthusiastic epithets that domestic and foreign music critics endowed Daniil Borisovich Shafran. His creative career of more than 60 years made up a whole era in the Russian and world performing arts of the 20th century. “That was a musician you could take to paint a portrait of not just a genuine intellectual of St. Petersburg or the last romantic, but also a workaholic in the finest sense of the word - a man who was literally chained to his cello and who imagined no life without constant communication with music,” wrote music journalist Artyom Vagraftik about Daniil Shafran.
CD 1
Daniil Shafran, cello
CD 2
Daniil Shafran, cello
Anton Ginsburg, piano
CD 3
Daniil Shafran, cello
Felix Gotlib, piano
Dmitri Shostakovich, piano
CD 4
Daniil Shafran, cello
Anton Ginsburg, piano
USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra - Gennady Rozhdestvensky
CD 5
Daniil Shafran, cello
Academic Symphony Orchestra of Leningrad State Philharmonic Society - Arvid Jansons
USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra - Neeme Järvi:
Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow State Philharmonic Society - Kirill Kondrashin
Total time: 343.38 |
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ID: MELCD1001955
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Violin Concerto
Subcollection: Violin and Orchestra
The great violinist David Oistrakh realised his ambition to conduct in 1961and from then until his last concert in Moscow in 1974, combined solo and conducting work. A Viennese newspaper wrote “A world-known violinist being a top-class conductor at the same time is an extraordinary phenomenon.”
It was in 1961 when the great violinist Oistrakh realized his old dream of conducting for the first time. Since then, until his last concert in Moscow in October 1974, where Brahms’s second symphony was performed, the musician combined solo and conducting work appearing to his audiences as a conductor of the Orchestra of Moscow Philharmonic Society, Big Symphony Orchestra of All - Union Radio, and with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Teatro alla Scala Orchestra and other celebrated collectives. “A world - known violinist being a top class conductor at the same time is an extraordinary phenomenon. And David Oistrakh is a remarkable conductor,” wrote one of the Viennese newspapers in 1966. This Firma Melodiya release features compositions by Édouard Lalo (Symphonie espagnole), Hector Berlioz (Harold in Italy) and Johannes Brahms (Violin concerto in D major, Op. 77 Symphony No. 2 in D major, Op. 73) performed by the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by David Oistrakh.
CD1:
(1 - 5) Igor Oistrakh, violin / Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra - David Oistrakh, conductor
(6 - 9) Rudolf Barshai, viola / Moscow Philarmonic Orchestra - David Oistrakh, conductor
CD2:
(1 - 3) Igor Oistrakh, violin / Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra - David Oistrakh, conductor
(4 - 7) Moscow Philarmonic Orchestra - David Oistrakh, conductor |
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ID: MELCD1002078
CDs: 4
Type: CD
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Collection: Piano Concerto
Subcollection: Piano
Melodiya presents a 4 CD set of recordings by pianist Grigory Sokolov. One of the best contemporary representatives of the St. Petersburg piano school, Sokolov is now well known in Russia and beyond. He tours around the globe delighting the audiences of the old and new worlds. Sokolov is a master of now rare “intellectual” pianism. However, unlike the great piano intellectual of the 20th century Glenn Gould, Sokolov prefers live concerts to studio work. “The biggest chasm is the one between a microphone and an individual,” the musician believes.
CD 1
Ludwig van Beethoven
Variations (33) for Piano on a Waltz by Diabelli in C major, Op. 120
CD 2
F. F. Chopin, Etudes (12) for Piano, Op. 25
J. Brahms
Intermezzi (3) for piano, Op. 117
Rhapsodies (2) for piano, Op. 79
CD 3
Robert Schumann
Fantasia in C major, Op. 17
Sonata for Piano no 2 in G minor, Op. 22
CD 4
Camille Saint-Saëns
Concerto for Piano no 2 in G minor, Op. 22
P.I. Tchaikovsky
Concerto for Piano no 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23
Total Time: 59:09 |
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ID: MELCD1002147
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Piano and Violin
Firma Melodiya presents sting compositions by Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms performed by David Oistrakh.
The prominent violinist did not part with his violin for more than sixty years, and indeed, he left numerous recordings made in studio and at concert to us. However, Oistrakh’s studio work during his last years, when he was not that active as a concert performer, is particularly interesting, and his chamber programmes were viewed as true revelations.
Oistrakh renders a songful and sunny world of Schubert’s duet and fantasia, and restrained emotions and hidden drama of Brahms’s first sonata with an inimitable, unique intonation and nobility of tone. A sensitive listener might think that the music had waited for its performer for a century.
In those years, Frida Bauer, a remarkable pianist and soloist of the Moscow Philharmonic Society, was the violinist’s ensemble partner. The recordings
were made in 1970-1974. |
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