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ID: ART187
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Kolekce: Russian Virtuosos 21th centuryPodkolekce: Trumpet
1-3 Moscow Chamber Orchestra - Rudolf Barshai, conductor
4-6 Lithuanian Chamber Orchestra - Saulius Sondeckis, conductor
7-9 Lion Chamber Orchestra - Phillippe Fournier, conductor |
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ID: GHCD2281_4
Disk: 4
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Kolekce: Vocal CollectionPodkolekce: 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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ID: MELCD1000731
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Kolekce: Piano ConcertoPodkolekce: Piano and Orchestra
(1 - 12) - S. Richter, piano
(10 - 12) - A. Vedernikov, piano
(7 - 9) - USSR State Symphony Orchestra - K. Sanderling
(10 - 12) - Moscow Chamber Orchestra - R. Barshai |
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ID: MELCD1001472
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Kolekce: Vocal CollectionPodkolekce: Voice and Choir
Alexander Lazarevich Lokshin (1920-1987) is one of the most talented and original composers of the 20th century. Having remained aloof from the confrontation between the various musical trends, which had erupted so acutely in the musical life of the former Soviet Union during the 1960s and 1970s - the rivalry between the radically avant-garde and the traditional-national trends, the composer was able to create his individual style, in which a contemporary musical language is combined with a foundation on traditions of the high art of the past. Emotional saturation, melodic abundance, harmonical and timbral expressivity, a compositionally-dramaturgical plasticity and freedom, as well as a structural unity - these are all qualities, due to which the music of Lokshin authoritatively attracts the listener to itself and could be recognized and remembered. Of the great conductors of our time, Rudolf Barshai is surely the one most closely associated with the contemporary composers whose music he conducts. He studied composition with Shostakovich discussed orchestration with Prokofiev, and established himself as a forceful advocate of the music of Alexander Lokshin. In 1955 Barshai has founded the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. It was he who first acquainted Russian audiences with Shostakovich’s Fourteenth Symphony, Weinberg’s Symphony No. 7 in C major for strings and harpsichord, Music for chamber orchestra of Sviridov.
(1 - 2) - Text by Johann Goethe, Boris Pasternak
(1 - 23) - Moscow Chamber Orchestra - Rudolf Barshai, conductor
(1 - 7) - Luydmila Sokolenko, soprano
(8 - 23) Nina Grigorieva, contralto
(16 - 23) Moscow Youth Choir- Boris Tevlin, conductor |
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ID: MELCD1001983
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Kolekce: SymphonyPodkolekce: Voices and Orchestra
Alexander Lokshin composed eleven symphonies, but only No.4 included here, is purely orchestral.
Symphony No. 9 was only performed once in the composer’s lifetime, conducted by Barshai.
Symphony No. 9 is a lyrical chamber work.
Lokshin:
Symphony No. 4 'Sinfonia Stretta'
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rudolf Barshai
Symphony No. 9 for baritone and string orchestra, to poems by Leonid Martynov
Yuri Grigoriev (baritone)
Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Rudolf Barshai
Symphony No. 11 for soprano and orchestra, to a sonnet by Luís de Camões
Ludmila Sokolenko (soprano)
Ensemble of soloists, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Hungarian Fantasy for violin and orchestra
Yulian Sitkovetsky (violin)
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Kurt Sanderling |
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ID: MELCD1002191
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Kolekce: BaroquePodkolekce: Chamber Orchestra
Firma Melodiya presents recordings of baroque music performed by the Moscow Chamber Orchestra lead by Rudolf Barshai.
The name of this musician emerged in the Soviet concert life in the early 1990’s. He quickly became successful as a solo violist and ensemble player. However, his thirst for something new and his strive for breaking stereotypes, which were the way of many cultural figures of the Thaw period led him to creating the first ever Soviet chamber orchestra. An exceptionally talented conductor and organizer, Rudolf Barshai won many well-known musicians over to joint playing, including those who had promising solo careers (violinist and conductor Lev Markiz, cellist Alla Vassilieva, harpsichordist and pianist Mikhail Muntian, oboist Evgeny Nepalo, bassoonist Vladimir Bogorad and others). The performances of the new orchestra surprised and admired the listeners. Its repertoire included compositions, which were previously little known to the domestic listeners, and on the contrary some well know, even “outworn” music, which sounded in a totally new way.
The compositions featured on this album are instrumental concertos by Tomaso Albinoni and Antonio Vivaldi, the concerto grosso by George Friedrich Handel and a suite by “Bach’s fortunate rival” Georg Philipp Telemann became a discovery to the Soviet audience of the years. Even today, when we have so many alternative versions to choose from and when “authenticity” is in fashion, these recordings from fifty years ago have not lost their originality. We still feel that peculiar freshness, audacity of the pioneers who discovered a new and at the same time so contemporary world of baroque music for themselves and their listeners.
Albinoni:
Concerto Op. 7 No. 3 for oboe & strings in B flat major
Eugene Nepalo (oboe)
Concerto for strings and harpsichord No. 3 in D major, Op. 5, No. 3
Handel:
Concerto grosso, Op. 6 No. 12 in B minor, HWV330
Telemann:
Overture (Suite) TWV 55:C3 in C major for wind, strings & b.c. 'Hamburger Ebb und Fluth' ('Wassermusik')
Vivaldi:
Concerto in G minor, RV 103
Eugene Nepalo (oboe), Mikhail Muntian (basso continuo)
The Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Rudolf Barshai |
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ID: MELCD1002262
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Kolekce: BaroquePodkolekce: Violin and Orchestra
Firma Melodiya presents a recording of instrumental concertos by Antonio Vivaldi.
The Italian composer went down in history as an outstanding master of baroque concerto. His legacy includes over 500 concertos (about half of them composed for violin), which combine composing and virtuosic mastership with a truly Italian temperament, strict orderliness of the whole with inexhaustible inspiration and ingenuity. Vivaldi adopted a three-movement model of concerto, but even his most conventionally built works almost always conceal a surprise - an unusual structure of a movement, sudden modulation, a striking harmonic turn, and play of Forte and Piano shades. Just as it was the case with Bach, Vivaldi was sunk into oblivion for almost two centuries, and only in the 20th century his music came out to the foreground of world culture.
Vivaldi:
Oboe Concerto in A minor, RV461
Concerto for Violin & Viola da gamba, 'La maggiore' RV546
Concerto in E minor, RV 278
Cello Concerto in B minor, RV424
Concerto for Violin & Cello in B flat minor, RV 547
Flute Concerto, Op. 10 No. 2 in G minor, RV 439 'La notte'
Antonio Vivaldi’s concertos are performed by the prominent representatives of domestic music art Oleg Kagan (violin), Natalia Gutman (cello), Evgeny Nepalo (oboe) and Albert Gofman (flute), and conducted by Rudolf Barshai and Lev Markiz, who opened the style of chamber performance of baroque music for the Soviet audience. The Night concerto features an ensemble of soloists of the Moscow Philharmonic Society led by David Oistrakh. |
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ID: MELCD1002281
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Kolekce: SymphonyPodkolekce: Orchestr
Firma Melodiya presents a collection of selected symphonies by Moisey Weinberg.
Weinberg’s works remained in the shadow of his great contemporary Dmitri Shostakovich for a long time. In the meantime, Shostakovich himself highly appreciated the composing talent of his younger colleague. However, Weinberg’s vivid composing individuality, which combined elements of Jewish, Polish and Russian national cultures, allows us to speak about him as one of the most significant phenomena of domestic music of the second half of the 20th century.
This collection features Symphonies Nos 5 and 10 composed during the period of the composer’s most intensive creative activity in 1960s. A Fifth Symphony is philosophical and deep with wealth of slow tempos. The Tenth Symphony became one of the composer’s creative peaks. Old genres and forms are organically combined here with music techniques of the 20th century.
The outstanding Soviet conductors Kirill Kondrashin and Rudolf Barshai played a significant part in popularizing Weinberg’s works. Many of Weinberg’s composition were performed for the first time by the orchestras founded by the two conductors - the Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Philharmonic Society and the Moscow Chamber Orchestra. The Fifth Symphony was recorded by Kondrashin in 1975, and the Tenth one by Barshai in 1970.
Weinberg:
Symphony No. 5 in F minor, Op. 76
Recorded in 1975
The Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Kirill Kondrashin
Symphony No. 10, Op. 98
Recorded in 1970
The Moscow Chamber Orchestra, Rudolf Barshai |
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ID: MELCD1002431
Disk: 10
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Kolekce: SymphonyPodkolekce: Voices and Orchestra
Dmitri Shostakovich’s creations constitute a musical chronicle of the epoch. What we hear in his music is something that continues to alarm minds and souls of millions of people. His fifteen symphonies captured not only the great musician’s evolution - as if the entire 20th century with its great discoveries and perturbations, unprecedented progress and terrifying catastrophes breathes in their scores. These are unique documents of human spirit that will stay with us for good to tell us about their time, to stir heated theoretical and aesthetic disputes, to give us a reason for very different interpretations, and to command our admiration or sharp rejection. Whatever the case may be, they will never find an indifferent listener.
Firma Melodiya is preparing a number of large-scale projects for the Shostakovich anniversary year. We present the first of them - a set of the composer’s symphonies performed by the greatest masters of the Soviet conducting school and brightest interpreters of Shostakovich’s music - Evgeny Mravinsky, Kirill Kondrashin, Evgeny Svetlanov and Gennady Rozhdestvensky. The set also includes recordings made by Konstantin Ivanov, a predecessor of Evgeny Svetlanov as chief conductor of the country’s principal orchestra - the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra; Yuri Temirkanov, a successor of Evgeny Mravinsky, a great representative of the St. Petersburg conducting school; Rudolf Barshai, a founder of the first Soviet chamber orchestra and the one who inspired Shostakovich’s Fourteenth Symphony; and Maxim Shostakovich, the composer’s son who presented the world premiere of the last, Fifteenth Symphony.
The live and studio recordings of Shostakovich’s symphonies were made by Firma Melodiya from 1961 to 1984. The studio recording is peculiar for the fact it was realized shortly after the world premiere in the presence and under supervision of the composer. An unconfirmed legend among the former members of the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra has it that the recording was to be erased together with the other ones after Maxim Shostakovich defected from the Soviet Union. However, it survived among the Melodiya phonograms.
The edition comprises a lidded hard box made from lined cardboard, 9 digipacks and a thick hardcover booklet in English and Russian.
CD 1 - Symphonies Nos. 1-3
CD 2 - Symphony No. 4
CD 3 - Symphonies Nos. 5 - 6
CD 4 - Symphony No. 7
CD 5 - Symphony No. 8
CD 6 - Symphonies Nos. 9 - 10
CD 7, CD 8 - Symphonies Nos. 11 - 13
CD 9 - Symphony No. 14
CD 10 - Symphony No. 15 |
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