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ID: ART272
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Subcollection: Piano |
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ID: MELCD1002310
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Chamber Music
Subcollection: Piano and ClarinetFirma Melodiya presents a recording of chamber works by Alban Berg and Olivier Messiaen.
Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano (1913) were created by Alban Berg, one of the pupils of Arnold Schoenberg, the founder of the Second Viennese School, in a period of an intense creative ascent, a year before he began to work on his opera Wozzeck.
Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time is arguably one of the most amazing pages of chamber music of the 20th century. It was composed during the composer’s stay in German prisoner-of-war camp where it was premiered in January of 1941. The epigraph to the entire work was inspired by text from the Book of Revelation:
“And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire ... and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth .... And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever and ever ... that there should be time no longer: But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished.”
The works were first performed in the former USSR for the first time in 1998 at the Gift to the Vine music festival in the Georgian city of Telavi. The festival was initiated by two outstanding Soviet musicians - cellist Natalia Gutman and violinist Oleg Kagan. The composer and pianist Vasily Lobanov and Swiss clarinetist, then a member of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Eduard Brunner, both recognized interpreters of contemporary music, were among the participants of the festival. A year later, the Quartet for the End of Time was performed by the same line-up in Moscow at Sviatoslav Richter’s December Evenings festival at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.
The featured recording was made at one of the last performances of Oleg Kagan who passed away prematurely in 1990.
(1-4) - Eduard Brunner, clarinet / Vasily Lobanov, piano
(5 - 12) - Oleg Kagan, violin / Eduard Brunner, clarinet / Natalia Gutman, cello / Vasily Lobanov, piano |
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ID: MELCD1002204
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Collection:
Chamber Music
Subcollection: Piano and ViolinFirma Melodiya continues the series of compact discs dedicated to the December Evenings Festival that takes place at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. This album, like the previous one, is dedicated to the 1985 festival 'World of Romanticism' and includes recordings featuring Sviatoslav Richter.
The atmosphere of December Evenings, an event initiated by the great pianist, differed from usual philharmonic concerts. The spirit of music as an inseparable part of the 'fusion of arts' the romanticists dreamt of was invisibly felt in each number; a sensitive listener can catch it in these, perhaps technically imperfect, concert recordings from thirty years ago.
The works by Schubert, Schumann and Chopin were performed by Sviatoslav Richter in ensemble with his outstanding contemporaries, violinist and David Oistrakh’s student Oleg Kogan who passed away prematurely, violist Yuri Bashmet, cellist Natalia Gutman and clarinettist Anatoly Kamyshov.
Along with popular compositions (Chopin’s Polonaise-fantaisie, Ballade and Cello Sonata, and Schubert’s Sonata for violin and piano), the programme featured works which were less known to the audience - Schumann’s Piano Trio, his late opuses Fairy Tale Pictures, Op.113 for viola and piano and Fantasy Pieces, Op.73, in their original version for clarinet and piano.
Chopin:
Cello Sonata in G minor, Op. 65
Natalia Gutman (cello)
Polonaise No. 7 in A flat major, Op. 61 'Polonaise-fantaisie'
Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52
Schubert:
Grand Duo for Violin and Piano in A Major, D574
Oleg Kagan (violin)
Schumann:
Fantasiestücke, Op. 73
Anatoly Kamyshev (clarinet)
Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Op. 63
Oleg Kagan (violin), Natalia Gutman (cello),
Märchenbilder (4), Op. 113
Yuri Bashmet (viola)
CD1 and CD 2 - Sviatoslav Richter (piano) |
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ID: MELCD1002380
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Cello Concerto
Subcollection: Cello and OrchestraNatalia Gutman, cello
Oleg Kagan, violin (4-6)
The USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra
Conductors:
Alexander Lazarev (1-3),
Evgeny Svetlanov (4-6)
Recorded broadcasts from the grand Hall of the Moscow
Conservatory: 1981 (1-3), 25 December 1981 (4-6)
Firma Melodiya presents recordings of Brahms and Prokofiev concertos performed by Natalia Gutman and Oleg Kagan.
One of the world’s best cellists, a People’s Artist of the USSR, and an owner of the State Prize of Russia, Natalia Gutman received four competition prizes (the
World Festival of Youth and Students in Vienna in 1959 and the Prague Spring International Music Festival in 1961, a silver medal of the All-Union Competition of Performing Musicians in 1961 and the third prize of the 1962 International Tchaikovsky Competition) when she was a student. In the third round of the Moscow tournament, she made a brilliant appearance with Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony-Concerto, the great composer’s last work which was yet to be estimated by its true worth.
Sviatoslav Richter, Isaac Stern, Viktor Tretiakov, Yuri Bashmet, Eliso Virsaladze and many others have been the cellist’s ensemble partners. Natalia Gutman’s brightest artistic alliance was with her husband and remarkable violinist Oleg Kagan (1946-1990). A pupil of David Oistrakh, silver prize winner of the 1966 International Tchaikovsky Competition and owner of the first prizes of the 1965 International Jean Sibelius Competition in Helsinki and the 1968 International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig, Oleg Kagan was famous as a soloist and ensemble performer, and fine interpreter of classical and contemporary music. His death interrupted his active performing career in the prime of his life. The album features Oleg Kagan and Natalia Gutman playing Johannes Brahms’s double concerto, the German master’s last orchestral piece. The soloists are accompanied by the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Evgeny Svetlanov and Alexander Lazarev. |
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ID: MKM311
CDs: 1
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Piano Concerto
Subcollection: Violin, Piano and OrchestraSviatoslav Richter, piano
1-3 Orchestre de Paris
Conductor: Lorin Maazel
4-6 Oleg Kagan, violin
Moscow Conservatoire Ensemble
Conductor: Yuri Nikolaievsky
1-3 Recorded: October - November 1969, Salle Wagram, Paris /
4-6 Recorded: 12-13 December, 1977, Athénée Théâtre Louis-Jouvet, Paris (live recording) |
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ID: RCD16297
CDs: 1
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Collection:
Russe école de pianist
Subcollection: Piano(1 - 3) - Alexej Lubimov, piano
(4- 7) - Alexej Lubimov, tangent piano
(8 -12) - Alexej Lubimov, piano / Oleg Kagan, violin
(13) - Alexej Lubimov, piano / Oleg Kagan, violin / Lev Mikhailov, clarinet
(14) - Alexej Lubimov, piano / Tatiana Grindenko, violin
(1 - 7, 9-14) - Live recordings 1996
(8) Live recordings 1975 |
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ID: RCD16302
CDs: 1
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Collection:
Russe école de pianist
Subcollection: Piano, Violin and Cello5 - 8 Alexej Lubimov, piano (Fortepiano Blüthner, Leipzig cca 1878)
9 -11 Alexej Lubimov, piano (Tafelklavier (Square piano) by Schoene & Renk, London cса 1780)
12 - Alexej Lubimov, piano (Fortepiano Erard, Paris 1835) |
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