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ID: MELCD1002222 (EAN: 4600317122226) | 1 CD | ADD Released in: 2014
- LABEL:
- Melodiya
- Collection:
- Chamber Music
- Subcollection:
- Piano and Viola
- Composers:
- ERNST, Heinrich Wilhelm | GLAZUNOV, Alexander Konstantinovich | GLINKA, Mikhail Ivanovich | RUBINSTEIN, Anton Grigor'yevich | SCHUBERT, Franz (Peter) | STRAVINSKY, Igor
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Interprets:
- BEREZOVSKY, Boris (piano) | KUGEL, Mikhail (viola)
- Other info:
Melodiya presents recordings of the outstanding violist Mikhail Kugel. Mikhail Kugel combined a career as a solo performer with the membership in the celebrated Beethoven Quartet (in its last line-up), was a professor of the Moscow Conservatory, and later on of the Jerusalem Rubin Academy of Music and Dance. At present, he teaches at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent in Belgium.Mikhail Kugel has expanded the viol repertoire by making numerous arrangement of music from different eras for the viola. Some of them are featured on this disc.The works for viola and piano were recorded by Mikhail Kugel together with Boris Berezovsky, one of the most in-demand pianists of modern time, a first prize winner of the Tchaikovsky International Competition and an owner of Grammophone, Diapason d’Or, BBC and Echo klassik awards for the best classical recordings.The recordings were made at Kugel’s concerts in 2002 to 2013.
A Leaf from the Album
Boris Berezovsky (piano)
Grand Caprice Forest King, Op. 26
F. Schubert - H.W. Ernst. Arranged for viola by M. Kugel
H.W. Ernst -Variations on "The Last Rose of Summer"arranged for viola by M. Kugel
Glazunov - Elegy, Op. 44
Boris Berezovsky (piano)
Glinka - Viola Sonata in D minor
Boris Berezovsky (piano)
Rubinstein - Viola Sonata in F minor, Op. 49 edited by M. Kugel
Boris Berezovsky (piano)
Stravinsky -Elegy, for solo viola
Mikhail Kugel (viola), Boris Berezovsky (piano)
GLINKA, Mikhail Ivanovich (1804-1857) | | Sonata for Viola and Piano in D Minor | | 1. | I. Allegro moderato | 9:17 | | 2. | II. Larghetto ma non troppo (Andante) | 6:30 | | 3. | A Leaf from the Album | 2:43 | | Sonata for Viola and Piano in F Minor, Op. 49 | | RUBINSTEIN, Anton Grigor'yevich (1829-1894) | | Sonata for Viola and Piano in F Minor, Op. 49 | | 4. | I. Moderato | 8:37 | | 5. | II. Andante | 5:20 | | 6. | III. Moderato con moto | 6:17 | | 7. | IV. Allegro | 6:23 | | GLAZUNOV, Alexander Konstantinovich (1865-1936) | | 8. | Elegia, Op. 44 | 5:31 | | STRAVINSKY, Igor (1882-1971) | | 9. | Elegy for Viola solo | 3:59 | | SCHUBERT, Franz (Peter) (1797-1828) / ERNST, Heinrich Wilhelm (1814-1865) | | 10. | Grand Caprice Forest King, Op. 26 (arranged for viola by M. Kugel) | 3:52 | | ERNST, Heinrich Wilhelm (1814-1865) | | 11. | Introduction, Theme and Variations on the Theme of The Last Rose of Summer (arranged for viola by M. Kugel) | 8:28 | | Total time: | |
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