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ID: MELCD1002362
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Kolekce: InstrumentalPodkolekce: Guitar
Melodiya's sub label Melodia Records presents an album of Spanish guitar music performed by Artyom Dervoed. This young Russian guitarist is undoubtedly one of the eminent figures of world guitar art. At the age of thirteen, he scored his first victory at the International Competition Young Musicians in Moscow. In 1994 to 2014, Artyom Dervoed won prizes of thirty-seven international contests, including sixteen first awards. After he graduated from the Russian Gnessins Music Academy Dervoed was involved in the workshops at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Italy, and awarded the Golden Guitar prize and the title of the best up-and-coming guitarist at the International Guitar Convention in Alessandria, Italy, in 2007. In 2009, he completed his post-graduate course at the Koblenz Guitar Academy in Germany with the famous Italian virtuoso Aniello Desiderio. Artyom Dervoeds first album that was recorded for Naxos in 2007 and included works of Russian composers entered the top ten bestselling chamber music albums and was acclaimed by Classical Guitar magazine. The musicians new album is dedicated to the roots of the classical guitar tradition Spanish music of the 16th to 20th centuries. |
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ID: MELCD1002291
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Kolekce: InstrumentalPodkolekce: Klavír
Anthology of Piano Music by Russian and Soviet Composers
Part 3 Disc 1: Before 1917
This eighth disc of the Anthology of Russian Piano Music is dedicated to the roots of Russian piano school and encompasses the first hundred years of its development in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
The acknowledged Russian classical composers Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Taneyev and Lyadov are here (represented with rarely performed works though), along with little known or now completely forgotten composers such as Rubinstein, Rebikov and Arensky.
A unique journey across the pages of lyrical and dramatic traditions of Russian pianism allows us to see how general European trends of piano music were combined with national attributes of domestic culture. Taneyev’s Prelude and Fugue in G sharp minor is a climax of the album - a grandiose polyphonic cycle, one of the peaks of Russian music of the pre-revolution period.
The works of the Russian composers are performed by young pianists - graduates of the Moscow Conservatory and prize-winners of prestigious international competitions, who are worthy representatives of a new generation of Russian music performing school - Vyacheslav Gryaznov, Alexei Chernov, Mikhail Turpanov, Rustam Khanmurzin and Nikita Mndoyants.
Arensky:
Characteristic Pieces (24), Op. 36: Petite Ballade
Characteristic Pieces (24), Op. 36: Élégie
Characteristic Pieces for Piano, Op. 36: Consolation
Characteristic Pieces for Piano, Op. 36: Scherzino
Characteristic Pieces (24), Op. 36: In the Fields
Glinka:
Variations on the song The Nightingale by Alexandr Alabiev in E minor
Souvenir d'une Mazurka in B flat major
Liadov:
Waltz, Op. 57 No. 2
Mazurka in F minor, Op. 57 No. 3
Rebikov:
Waltz in F sharp minor
Christmas tree : Waltz
Rubinstein:
The Russian Dance and Trepak, Op. 82 No. 6
Taneyev:
Prelude and Fugue in G sharp minor, Op. 29
Tchaikovsky:
Scherzo à la Russe, Op. 1 No. 1
Impromptu, Op. 1, No. 2
Chanson triste, Op. 40 No. 2
Vyacheslav Gryaznov (piano), Alexei Chernov (piano), Mikhail Turpanov (piano), Rustam Khanmurzin (piano), Nikita Mndoyants (piano) |
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ID: MELCD1000721
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Kolekce: InstrumentalPodkolekce: Klavír
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ID: MELCD1002197
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Kolekce: InstrumentalPodkolekce: Klavír
Firma Melodiya presents the first part of the anthology 'Piano Duet' featuring Elena Sorokina and Alexander Bakhchiyev.
The ensemble of two remarkable musicians, professors of the Moscow Conservatory - Honoured Art Worker of Russia Elena Sorokina and People’s Artist of Russia Alexander Bakhchiyev - was formed in 1968. For more than thirty years they jointly performed in Russia and around the world. In fact, the duet of Sorokina and Bakhchiyev revived the culture of piano duet which used to be so popular in Russia. They have performed more than a hundred compositions of the genre (many of them were premieres in this country) and been recognized as a 'Golden duet of Russia'.
“Their emergence on stage is always a feast of music, joy and beauty”, wrote Leonid Zhivov, a pianist and professor of the Moscow Conservatory.
This disc is dedicated to four hand piano compositions from the period of German romanticism and, along with unpretentious pieces 'for home playing', includes deeply dramatic ones. So, you will hear Schubert’s virtuosic and romantic Fantasia along with his Waltzes and Polonaises, Brahms’ Hungarian Dances, Schumann’s very distinctive Gespenstermarchen and waltzes by Joseph Lanner, a very popular Austrian composer in his time who initiated the era of Viennese waltz - his music very much anticipated the Strauss dynasty.
The recordings were made between 1974 and 1990.
Brahms:
Hungarian Dances (excerpts)
Waltzes (16), Op. 39, extracts
Five Waltzes
Lanner:
Waltzes Hymens Feierklänge, Op. 115
Schubert:
Fantasie in F minor for piano duet, D940
4 Polonaises, Op. 75, D. 599
12 Waltzes, D145 arr. Georg Kremser for piano four hand
Schumann:
Fantastic Fairy Tale from the cycle12 Piano Pieces for Small and Large Children, Op. 85, No. 11
Alexander Bakhchiev (piano) & Elena Sorokina (piano) |
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ID: MELCD1002409
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Kolekce: InstrumentalPodkolekce: Klavír
Firma Melodiya presents an album of piano music by contemporary Russian composers performed by Lukas Geniušas, a prize-winner of the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition.
The young pianist is one of the brightest musical talents of today. A student of Vera Gornostayeva, he is a worthy continuer of the great traditions of domestic piano art that date back to the time of Heinrich Neuhaus. At his age of 25, he is an owner of numerous prestigious international awards, including silver medals of two of Europe’s renowned piano tournaments - the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw (2011) and the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow (2015). Critics have noted the maturity and depth of the pianist’s art, and the convincingness of his renditions of pieces written in different ages - from Handel to Hindemith. Geniušas’s recordings have been released on NIFC, Art Classic, DUX and Piano Classics. The Fryderyk Chopin Institute previously released a double album of his Chopin recordings, and the Moscow Conservatory released a live recording of the pianist’s recital dedicated to Rachmaninoff’s anniversary.
This time Lukas Geniušas presents piano cycles of today’s Russian composers - Leonid Desyatnikov, Valery Arzumanov and Vladimir Ryabov. The featured works were composed in the second half of the 1980s in the vein of the aesthetics of the “new simplicity.” At the same time the music captures a complicated era of total reappraisal of values that was going on in those years in the life and arts of this country. The pianist also provides commentary on the programme of the album. |
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ID: MELCD1002398
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Kolekce: InstrumentalPodkolekce: Klavír
The album was inspired by the works of Alexander Scriabin who takes a special place in Ludmila Berlinskaya's life. According to the pianist, this collection is built on the principle of evolution, and this evolution is for the listener. It showcases the progress of Scriabin's music - from the Preludes, Op. 11, to the poem Toward the Flame, Op. 72. The Two Preludes written under the influence of the music of Alexander Scriabin and the future poet, novelist and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature Boris Pasternak are of particular interest, while the Four Preludes, moving compositions by young Julian Scriabin, show natural bent of a future great composer. |
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ID: MELCD1002459
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Kolekce: InstrumentalPodkolekce: Klavír
This album features names that are virtually unknown to today’s wide audience - Gavriil Popov, Vladimir Rebikov and Samuil Feinberg. For the first time on record, Melodiya presents Grand Suite by Gavriil Popov, one of the most talented representatives of “avant-garde Soviet music” of the 1920’s to the early 1930’s. Vladimir Rebikov was one of the first representatives of Russian music modernism. His piano cycle On the Other Side was inspired by the works of Spanish painter Francisco Goya. Samuil Feinberg is known first of all as a prominent pianist, educator and successor to the traditions of the Russian piano school. Nevertheless, he regarded himself as, first and foremost, a composer and heir to Alexander Scriabin’s creative aspirations. The album also includes works by Prokofiev and Shostakovich. A prize-winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, one of the world’s most prestigious tournaments, Yury Favorin graduated from the Moscow Conservatory under professor Mikhail Voskresensky. The young musician gives special attention to contemporary and rarely performed music. The programmes of his performances are noted for their careful structure. |
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ID: MELCD1002488
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Kolekce: InstrumentalPodkolekce: Klavír
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ID: MELCD1002464
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Kolekce: InstrumentalPodkolekce: Klavír
Fans of the musician who is known as a genre-breaking composer, performer and ardent propagandist of the most radical styles of contemporary music, may find this album surprising.
Beethoven, Chopin, Scriabin, Prokofiev and, of course, Tchaikovsky are performed by the 20-year old student of the Moscow Conservatory who was not admitted to the final round of the prestigious contest but was awarded an important prize: “for best performance of Tchaikovsky’s music.”
Even then the young musician, one of the most promising pianists from Tatiana Nikolayeva’s class, was confident of his propensities. A lover of 20th century music, including that written by his contemporaries, he interprets Beethoven, Scriabin and Prokofiev with youthful enthusiasm void of academic clichés. As Anton Batagov admitted, Tchaikovsky’s music was something that he had to struggle with. Only when he was preparing for the competition, he came to realize the depth of the Russian music genius - “as an extremely lonely and extremely closed man who had an infinitely subtle perception of the world... as a man to whom life was, first of all, an impossibility of happiness.” And at the same time, a man of “absolute harmony and fabulous beauty.” These recordings made 30 years ago during the first two rounds of the VIII Tchaikovsky International Competition are released for the first time. |
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ID: MELCD1002455
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Kolekce: InstrumentalPodkolekce: Klavír
Firma Melodiya presents a new CD of the renowned Russian pianist Irina Chukovskaya (Petrova) dedicated to the 110th anniversary of the 20th century classic Dmitri Shostakovich.
“Irina Chukovskaya is a pianist of a bright talent. Her performance is attractive because of its outstanding virtuosity, sonic culture and genuine artistry.
Different musical styles and directions are within her power,” Mstislav Rostropovich once described Chukovskaya’s art. An alumna of the central Music School and the Moscow Conservatory, a student of Vera Gornostayeva and Stanislav Neuhaus, and a winner of the 1980 International Chopin Competition in Warsaw, Irina Chukovskaya is now a professor of the Russian Gnessins Music Academy and one of the best representatives of the Neuhaus school in today’s musical and performing art and piano pedagogy.
The pianist has performed at the largest concert venues of Russia, Europe and Asia. She is particularly well-known in the United States where she has played over 500 recitals. Chukovskaya has been a long-time collaborator of the
conductor Maxim Shostakovich. “I have performed with Irina Chukovskaya on repeated occasions and witnessed her significant artistic achievements,” the musician tells. “This recording of my father’s works is among them. She renders the poignant tragicalness of the images of the sonata, flexible fickleness of the moods of the preludes and paradoxical eccentricity of the Aphorisms with conquering convincingness.”
The disc features Dmitri Shostakovich’s most significant works for solo piano - Aphorisms, and early experimental cycle written in 1927, the well-known 24 Preludes for piano (1932-1933) and Sonata No. 2 for piano (1943), one of the large-scale works of the war period dedicated to memory of Leonid Nikolayev, Shostakovich’s teacher and one of the founders of the Soviet piano school. |
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