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ID: SMCCD0014
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano
Moscow State Conservatory presents
«Gleb Akselrod is one of the brighlest and most gifted pianists whose artistic development fell on the fifties. He already showed himself to be a serious musician of great ability as a virtuoso when he was still a conservatory student under Professor G. R. Ginzburg», wrote Lev Nikolayevich Oborin.
Akselrod graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1948 and completed a post-graduate course in 1951. Already at the beginning of his artistic career the pianist won wide recognition. He was a great success at a number of important international competitions - the B. Smetana Competition in Prague, the M. Long Competition in Paris, the Viana da Mota Competition in Lisbon. Since this time Gleb Akselrod, Merited Artist of the RSFSR and Professor of Moscow Conservatory, has been combining teaching and intensive concert activity in the USSR and abroad. «G. Akselrod is a musician with broad outlook, he feels and understands keenly the style and form of quite different musical works», said Yakov Vladimirovich Fliere. This opinion is supported by Akselrod’s interpretation of Russian and modern music (Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Shchedrin, Galynin), works by foreign composers (D. Scarlatti, Beethoven, Brahms, Liszt, Debussy). |
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ID: MELCD1001911
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Piano Concerto
Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra
22 October, 2011 is the 200th anniversary of the birth of Franz Liszt (1811-1886), the brilliant virtuoso pianist, genius composer, renowned educator and music critic, one of the brightest stars of the musical Olympus of the 19th century. As a daring innovator, Liszt stirred up a revolution in both the art of piano playing and composing. Being a classic of the Hungarian national music who imbibed cultural tradition of other countries, Liszt exerted influence upon on the course of European music in general. "If not for Liszt, the fate of new music would have been different," wrote music critic Vladimir Stasov. The piano remained Liszt's favourite instrument throughout his artistic life. His innovative approach to the instrument showed up in his orchestral and symphonic interpretation. He created a multitude of virtuosic transcriptions of his own works and ones composed by others authors such as operatic numbers and songs by Schumann, symphonies by Beethoven. "In the span of its seven octaves, [the piano] embraces the range of a whole orchestra, and the ten fingers of a single man suffice to render the harmonies produced created by the concurrence of a hundred musicians," wrote Liszt. In the field of symphonic music, the composer created a whole new genre - single movement symphonic poem (Tasso, Les préludes, Orpheus, Prometheus and others). This release dedicated to the 200th anniversary of Liszt's birth includes compositions by Franz Liszt performed by some of the best musicians such as Alexander Slobodyanik (his recording of a Hungarian Rhapsody and Piano Sonata in B minor brought him a Franz Liszt award in Hungary, in 1976), Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Vladimir Ashkenazi, Gleb Akselrod, Mark Ermler, Lazar Berman, Vladimir Ovchinnikov and Kirill Kondrashin.
CD 1:
(1) - Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
(2) - Lazar Berman (piano)
(3) - Vladimir Ovchinnikov (piano)
(4) - Gleb Akselrod (piano)
(5) - Alexander Slobodyanik (piano)
CD2:
(1) - Pavel Serebryakov (piano) / Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra - Kirill Kondrashin
(2) - Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra - Gennady Rozhdestvensky
(3 - 5 ) - USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra - Mark Ermler |
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