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Alexej Lubimov, piano - Antology "Private collection" Vol. 1. - Concertos

Alexej Lubimov, piano - Antology "Private collection" Vol. 1. - Concertos
ID: ART232
CDs: 3
Type: CD
Subcollection: Piano

Alexej Ljubimov - one of the most interesting and popular performers of modern and old music. Ljubimov studied with A.Artobolevskaja, G.Neuhaus and L.Naumova. His is the winner of many international competitions. He leads an intensive concert activity in Russia and abroad, both as a pianist and as a clavecinist. Ruslania.com offers the first volume of the unique anthology of the outstanding pianist. The anthology «Private collection» consists of 3 compact discs with previously unreleased recordings. Discs contain records of different years from various concerts with famous orchestras.


CD1
Alexej Lubimov, piano
(1 - 6) - Les Boreades Chamber Orchestra - Ryo Terakado, conductor
(7 - 9) - Collegium Europae Chamber Orchestra - Wieland Kuijken, conductor
Live recordings:
Tokyo 2004 (1 - 6), Utrecht 1991 (7 - 9)

CD2
Alexej Lubimov, piano
(1 - 3) - Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment (on historical instruments) - Michael Schönwandt, conductor
(4 - 6) - Estonian State Symphony Orchestra - Kirill Kondrashin, conductor
Live recordings:
Bristol 1997 (1 - 3), Tallinn 1977 (4 - 6)

CD3
Alexej Lubimov, piano
(1) - Estonian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus - Nathan Rakhlin, conductor
(2) - USSR State Symphony Orchestra - David Oistrakh, conductor
(3 - 5) - Lausanne Chamber Orchestra - Jukka-Pekka Saraste, conductor
(6) - BBC Symphony Orchestra - Martyn Brabbins, conductor
Live recordings:
Tallinn 1972 (1), Moscow 1971 (2), Lausanne 2002 (3 - 5), London 1999 (6)
32.00 eur Buy

Shura Cherkassky - The Complete HMV Stereo Recordings

Shura Cherkassky - The Complete HMV Stereo Recordings
ID: FHR04
CDs: 2
Type: CD
Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Piano

Like many other artists, the great Russian pianist Shura Cherkassky fled from what became Soviet Russia and settled in the USA. A student of Josef Hoffman, Cherkassky is considered by many critics to be the last great Romantic pianist. This release from the brand-new First Hand Records label is published to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Cherkassky's birth. Most of the tracks here are issued in stereo for the first time and many have never before appeared on CD. This set, which features over two hours of music, is a significant historical classical piano release and provides a major boost to the limited Cherkassky discography currently available.

A 2CD set of Shura Cherkassky's complete and unpublished stereo recordings made for the HMV record label over 50 years ago. Remastered from the original stereo tapes, First Hand Records released the recordings in May 2009, the majority of which have appear for the first time in any format.
Recorded in 1956 & 1958 at Abbey Road Studios, London and remastered there in 2009. The set spans over 400 years of keyboard repertoire, from Bach to Poulenc.

Recorded in Abbey Road Studio No. 3, London, 1956 & 1958, and Kingsway Hall, London, 1958 (Litolff Scherzo)

INTERNATIONAL PIANO MAGAZINE AWARD WINNER FOR BEST REISSUE/VINTAGE RELEASE OF 2009

Issue note:
Throughout his recording career, Cherkassky flirted with different record labels, never really settling with one company. His first recording for an EMI company was in 1929 (HMV) and the last, a recording of the Litolff Scherzo, in 1967 (New World Records). He was wary of the recording studio, feeling happier performing to an audience, which resulted in a comparatively limited discography. Cherkassky was probably at his peak in the mid to late 1950s, just as his career began to accelerate in the UK. These HMV recordings, made in 1956 and 1958, contain some of the earliest EMI stereo recordings, when the technology was still at an experimental stage (EMI introduced twin-track 7.5 ips stereosonic tapes in 1955, followed in 1958 by stereophonic LPs). Quite often, these stereo recordings suffered from technical problems, including equipment failure, which resulted in many recordings not even making it to tape. Some EMI recording sessions from this period were taped in both mono and stereo concurrently, including these Cherkassky recordings. Only the mono versions were intended for immediate release as the equipment for playing stereo LPs was not yet widely available. Indeed, the majority of the tracks on this CD release have only ever been published in their mono versions. The Chopin works, apart from Ballade No. 3, was released on stereosonic tape in 1957 and the Litolff Scherzo appeared in 1963 on a stereo LP entitled “An Evening at the Proms”.

The recordings on this CD issue were made at Abbey Road Studios, London (Litolff Scherzo was recorded in Kingsway Hall, London) and remastered there in 2009 using the original EMI stereo source tapes. These tapes had been left dormant in the EMI archive for over 50 years, alongside masses of other unpublished stereo recordings from this era, which still remain untouched.
The preservation of the piano’s natural acoustic sound was a vital part of the remastering process. With this in mind, we chose not to make an issue of removing the audible hiss that is present on the tapes, to avoid diminishing the acoustic depth and dynamic range of the piano.

Although remembered mainly for his performances of romantic repertoire, Cherkassky had wide-ranging and sometimes idiosyncratic tastes in programming. Alongside standard repertoire, he was also known to perform music by Boulez, Stockhausen, Ligeti and even performed boogie-woogie! This CD release illustrates this diversity of style in a mixture of musical bonbons, warhorses and encore works spanning three centuries. Cherkassky’s trademark lyricism, his exciting unpredictability and his dazzling virtuosity are in abundance throughout this significant historical issue. This is a significant addition to the Cherkassky discography.
25.00 eur Buy

Wilhelm Backhaus - J. Brahms: Concerto No. 1 - 28 Variations on a theme by Paganini Op. 35

Wilhelm Backhaus - J. Brahms: Concerto No. 1 - 28 Variations on a theme by Paganini Op. 35
ID: GI2028
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Great Performers

Recording: November 1932
15.00 eur Buy

Skempton: Lento - BBC Symphony Orchestra, M.Wigglesworth

Skempton: Lento - BBC Symphony Orchestra, M.Wigglesworth
ID: NMCD005
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra

Lento is music of extraordinary directness and simplicity. It is an enigmatic and hypnotic work within which shifting modal chords progress through the orchestra to create a chorale-like, almost architectural form beneath a calm melodic surface; now something of a cult piece, it is NMC's most consistently-selling recording since its release in 1990.
22.00 eur Buy

Robin Holloway - Concerto for Orchestra No.2

Robin Holloway - Concerto for Orchestra No.2
ID: NMCD015M
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra

Holloway's Second Concerto for Orchestra displays the composer at his most thrilling and eclectic. Inspired by a visit to North Africa, the work pulsates with energy and excitement.
GRAMOPHONE AWARD WINNER - BEST CONTEMPORARY RECORDING 1994 "A fascinating disc: the Concerto isn't quite like anything else I know, and in every aspect NMC have served it well. It deserves the widest possible hearing."Gramophone 1994
22.00 eur Buy

Roger Smalley - Pulses

Roger Smalley - Pulses
ID: NMCD017M
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Orchestra

BBC Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bernas - Roger Smalley: Pulses for 5x4 Players

Rampant antiphonal brass and percussion characterise Smalley's Pulses for 5×4 Players - a huge and gripping work which uses electronic treatment of sound to explore the spatial relationship between groups of performers.
22.00 eur Buy

Nicholas Sackman - Hawthorn

Nicholas Sackman - Hawthorn
ID: NMCD027S
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra

The first in NMC's series of BBC Proms commissions, Nicholas Sackman's Hawthorn is characterised by a colourful whirlwind of shuddering rhythms, vast swirling textures and lyrical lines.
22.00 eur Buy

David Sawer - Byrnan Wood

David Sawer - Byrnan Wood
ID: NMCD028S
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra

Byrnan Wood was inspired by Shakespeare's famous peripatetic forest in Macbeth; it explores the possibilities offered by the permutation of stillness into movement, as musical figures pass between players like Chinese whispers.
22.00 eur Buy

Pastures New - Sampler

Pastures New - Sampler
ID: NMCD031
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra

Three recordings from 1941, publicly available for the first time following transfer from the original 78rpm discs and lengthy subsequent treatment: the centrepiece is an off-air recording of the American premiere of Les Illuminations with Peter Pears.

1. BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Oliver Knussen, conductor/ Stefan Asbury, assistant conductor
2. London Sinfonietta/ Oliver Knussen, conductor
3. William Howard, piano - Anthony Powers
4. Composers Ensemble/ Diego Masson, conductor
5. Alexander Baillie, cello/ Andrew Ball, piano
6. Mary Wiegold, soprano/ Composers Ensemble/ Dominic Muldowney, cond
7. Mstislav Rostropovich, cello/ London Symphony Orchestra/ Hugh Wolff, conductor
8. BBC Singers/ John Poole, conductor
9. Jane's Minstrels/ Roger Montgomery, conductor
10. Nua Nos/ Noriko Kawai, piano/ Dairine Ni Mheadhra, conductor
11. Jane Manning, soprano/ Jane's Minstrels/ Roger Montgomery, conductor
12. London Sinfonietta | Peter Serkin, cello | Oliver Knussen, conductor
13. Sounds Positive/ David Sutton-Anderson, conductor
14. Martin Robertson, saxophone/ Christopher van Kampen, cello/ The Nash Ensemble/ Oliver Knussen, conductor
15. BBC Symphony Orchestra/ Andrew Davis, conductor
16. Peter Pears, tenor/ CBS Symphony Orchestra/ Benjamin Britten, conductor
22.00 eur Buy

NMC Revisited - Ancora!

NMC Revisited - Ancora!
ID: NMCD032
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subcollection: Orchestra

An encore for three cult works previously issued as singles on NMC and now available on one disc: Howard Skempton's Lento; Dominic Muldowney's Oboe Concerto; and Barry Guy's After the Rain.
22.00 eur Buy

 
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