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ID: MELCD1002108 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: InstrumentalPodkolekce: Klavír Recorded in 1959 and 1960.
Frédéric Chopin’s etudes are a unique combination of virtuoso technique and artistic supertasks. It is not without reason that no compulsory programme of any international competition can do without them. Each of the etudes is an ‘exercise’ in one of the types of piano technique, while sounding like a bright and image-bearing piece.
The twelve etudes of Op.10 were composed during 1828-1832 and dedicated to Franz Liszt. The twelve etudes of Op.25 were published in 1836. Nearly all pianists of the world have Chopin’s etudes in their repertoire, but only a few of them have the courage to play both of the opuses in their entirety.
Firma Melodiya presents twenty-four etudes by Chopin performed by Vladimir Ashkenazy, one of the greatest pianists of modern times. What makes these recordings especially interesting is that they were made in 1959 by the then 22-year-old pianist. With his world triumphs still ahead (although Ashkenazy had received a second prize at the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw and won the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels), Ashkenazy’s pianism already appears in full possession of virtuosic and artistic mastery.
“The young pianist is not just an owner of phenomenally deft, strong and superbly trained fingers, he also proficiently wields a diverse and beautiful palette of piano sounds”, wrote one of the reviewers in those days.
Chopin:
Etudes (12), Op. 10
Etudes (12), Op. 25
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) |
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ID: MELCD1002256 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: InstrumentalPodkolekce: Klavír Anthology of Piano Music by Russian and Soviet Composers
Part 2 Disc 7: From 1991 to Now
“Russian Piano Music Today: Teachers and Pupils”. This could be an apt title of the next, seventh, volume of the Anthology of 20th Century Russian Piano Music realized by Firma Melodiya jointly with the Tikhon Khrennikov Foundation and the National Foundation of Rightholders Support. The featured compositions reflect the spectrum of piano music in Russia for the last 20 years.
Tolib Shahidi’s works are arguably the brightest ones on the seventh disc. A son of the founder of Tajik professional music Ziyodullo Shahidi and a graduate of Aram Khachaturian’s class at the Moscow Conservatory, Tolib Shahidi has successfully synthesized national cultural features of Tajikistan with the achievements of Russian and European music. His works are now performed in many countries of the world.
Kirill Volkov, Tatiana Chudova and Yuri Vorontsov are representatives of the academic tradition of Russian music. Pupils of the outstanding masters Aram Khachaturian, Tikhon Khrennikov and Evgeny Golubev, they also combine their creative and teaching careers. While Vorontsov’s piece Sirius evokes cosmic associations, the sonatas by Chudova and Volkov are inspired with nature of Russian north.
Music of the new generation of composers is represented with the works by Alexei Sysoyev and Alexei Sergunin. Sysoyev, who began his career as a jazz musician, graduated from the Moscow Conservatory under Tatiana Chudova. Sergunin is also a Moscow Conservatory graduate who studied piano under Ksenia Knorre and composition under Alexander Tchaikovsky. Today, both of the young musicians take part in the most topical events of Russian music life.
Contemporary piano music is performed by young pianists, worthy representatives of the Russian performing school such as Ekaterina Mechetina, Irina Bogdanova, Lukas Geniušas, Nikita Mndoyants, Yuri Favorin and Fyodor Amirov. The last three are also professional composers who give preference to contemporary music in their programmes.
Chudova:
Sonata (1966) -N. Mnydoyants (piano)
Sergunin:
Origami -L. Geniusas (piano)
Shakhidi:
Two pieces - E. Mechetina (piano)
Sysoyev:
Antiphases -Y. Favorin (piano)
Volkov:
Sonata No. 5 - dedicated to pilgrims, travellers and wanderers of Russian North - I. Bogdanova (piano)
Vorontzov:
Sirius - F. Amirov (piano) |
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ID: MELCD1000749 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: InstrumentalPodkolekce: Klavír |
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ID: MELCD1002179 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
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: MELCD1000718 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: InstrumentalPodkolekce: Klavír Chopin:
Piano Sonata No. 2 in B flat minor, Op. 35 'Marche funèbre'
Liszt:
Piano Sonata in B minor, S178
Schumann:
Piano Sonata No. 1 in F sharp minor, Op. 11 |
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ID: MELCD1002207 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: InstrumentalPodkolekce: Klavír Firma Melodiya presents recordings of the suites for two pianos from Sergei Prokofiev's ballets. This album is the first original project of Melodiya for the last twenty years that introduces a new generation of Russian music performers (by virtue of circumstances, Firma Melodiya has been re-releasing the recordings made in the former USSR). The piano duet of Lyudmila Berlinskaya and Arthur Ancelle was formed in 2011. They have won acclaim of the public and some leading musical periodicals for their concerts and recordings. Lyudmila Berlinskaya is a representative of a renowned musical dynasty, an Honoured Artist of Russia and grand prix winner of prestigious international competitions. Arthur Ancelle was born in Paris to an artistic family and has given concerts in France and overseas since 13. He is a well-known interpreter of 20th century music and an author of piano arrangements of symphonic works by various composers. This album features his piano transcriptions of two fragments from Romeo and Juliet. The transcriptions for two piano fragments from the ballet Cinderella featured on the album were made by the outstanding contemporary pianist Mikhail Pletnyov. Prokofiev's suites were recorded by Berlinskaya and Ancelle in 2013. |
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ID: MELCD1001606 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: InstrumentalPodkolekce: Klavír Live recording of Glenn Gould’s meeting with the students of the Moscow conservatory in 1957. At that time he was not well-known to the general public and his performances demonstrated a degree of freedom in relation to the musical text that had never been heard before in Russia. The CD includes Gould speaking to the students and a Russian interpreter. |
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ID: CLAVES509109 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: InstrumentalPodkolekce: Klavír W.A. Mozart:
Movement for 2 pianos in B flat major (fragment), K. Anh. 42 (K. 375b)
Fugue for piano in C minor (fragment), K. Anh. 39a (K. 626b/27)
Uncatalogued Piace for Keyboard in G Major
Sarabande, from Suite, K399
Fugue in G minor, K154 (385k)
Allegre in C Minor KAnh44/426a
Sonata movement in C major, K. deest
Fugue in E flat major, K153 (375f)
Allegro in G K72a
KV deest - Fragment of prelude K624
Fugue in G minor, K401
Allegro einer Sonate K312
Sonata for Piano Duet in G major, K357/497a + 500a
Larghetto & Allegro in E Flat Major
Andante in B flat, K9b/5b
Adagio in D minor, KAnh34/385h
Piano Sonata No. 6 in D, K284 "Dürnitz"
Fugue in D minor, Kdeest
Finger Exercises, K626b/48
Contrapuntal Sketches (2), Kdeest
Piece in E Flat Kdeest
Fugue Fragments Kdeest in E Flat and E Minor
Allegro in B flat major ("Sophie and Constanze"), K400
Sonata movement in B flat
Sonata Movement in F, KAnh29/590a
Sonata Movement in F, KAnh30/590b
Rondo in F, KAnh37/590c
Adagio in D minor, KAnh35/593c
Adagio in B Minor Kdeest
Minuet in D, KAnh34/576a
Fantasia in F minor, KAnh32/383c
Theme in C major, KAnh. 38
Fugue in G, KAnh45/375d
Sonata Movement for Keyboard Duet in B flat, KAnh43/375c |
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ID: CLAVES509322 Disk: 1 Type: CD |
Kolekce: InstrumentalPodkolekce: Piano and Clarinet Chausson:
Andante et Allegro (1881)
Debussy:
Rhapsody for clarinet & piano (or orchestra), L. 116 'Première rapsodie'
Françaix:
Tema con variazioni for clarinet & piano
Honegger:
Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano, H 42
Hubeau:
Air tendre et varié
Poulenc:
Clarinet Sonata, Op. 184
Saint-Saëns:
Clarinet Sonata in E flat major, Op. 167
Widor:
Introduction et Rondo (op. 72) |
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