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ID: GD271 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraSofia Symphony Orchestra and ChorusMetodi Matakiev, conductor
"Such a voice has not been heard for many years lately - crystal-clear in all ranges, reminiscent of the young Carlo Bergonzi …" - these are lines from an Italian review. Kaludi Kaludov delights the critics and the audience not only in Italy, but all over the world. His international career is really impressive: Great Britain, Austria, Italy, France, and in 1985 a contract with La Scala in Milan. He is also well-known in Gernmany, Spain, the USA, Canada, Argentina, Brazilia, Japan, etc. as well as on many prestigious international festivals in Europe, Asia and America. He has appeared in performances with the world's most famous singers for the last 15 years and conductors like Claudio Abbado, Charles Mackeras, Riccardo Mutti, Fabio Luisi, etc. His repertoire includes over 60 tenor parts in operas by Verdi, Puccini, Donizetti, Rossini, Bellini, Bizet, Ponchielli, Leoncavallo, Mascagni, Giordano, and from the Russian classics - Borodin, Tchaikovsky, Mussorgsky. The tenor's concert repertoire features an impressive list of works including Requiems by Mozart and Verdi, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Stabat Mater by Rossini and Dvorak, along with Janacek's Glagolitic Mass. His numerous recordings have been released on many labels and he has also recorded for radio stations and video programmes. Parallel to his engagements on the world opera stages, Kaludi Kaludov also has an active teaching career mainly in Poland and Bulgaria. |
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ID: GD341 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Opera & Vocal Collection Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraOpera voices from Bulgaria reveal their talent at all major opera stages of the world. They can be heard in the La Scala, Covent Garden, Metropolitan Opera… One of these singers is Vania Vatralova-Stankov. She graduated in violin and singing at the Dobri Hristov College of Music and Arts in Varna and continued her studies in Spain at the Royal Conservatoire of Music and the Royal Opera School in Madrid. She was appointed as co-principal violin at the City of Elche Chamber Orchestra where she played as a soloist in many occasions but later on she decided to pursue fully her singing career. Her teacher, the soprano Ana Fernaud, introduced her to Bel Canto- repertoire. She has done further training and Master Classes with Renata Scotto, Montserrat Caballe, Mirella Freni and Nelly Miriccioiu, amongst others. After graduating she moved to the UK, and since then she has performed with Welsh National Opera Studio and with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in the title roles of operas by Donizetti, Verdi, Dvorak. Vania Vatralova-Stankov has also performed concerts and recitals throughout the UK and the rest of Europe. She has performed the major Oratorio repertoire with many orchestras, such as Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra, London Gala Orchestra, Baroque Orchestra Valencia, and Madrid Players Orchestra and has worked under the baton of Alaxander Kantorov, Alex Ingram and Giorgio Leardini. She has participated in many International Festivals, such as Belcanto Festival Dordrecht (Holland), International Summer Festival in Peralada, Barcelona, Sofia Summer Days Festival and Varna International Summer Festival.
Noel Tredinnick has conducted in all the major concert venues in the UK, at the Sydney Opera House, the Conservatorium of Music in Moscow, the Sky Dome Stadium in Toronto, the Kravis Center in Palm Beach, St Michael’s Cathedral in Brussels, the Festival Hall in Varna, the City Hall in New York, Ammergauer Haus and Wieskirche in Oberammergau, to name a few. He is also Organist and Director of Music at All Souls, Langham Place, a post he combines with that of a Professor at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, where he teaches conducting, orchestration and musical awareness. |
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ID: GD316 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Vocal Collection Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraThe names of a number of young composers have won recognition during the last years of the 20th century. Their works bring a new trend to contemporary Bulgarian music. They introduce new ideas, interesting creative concepts and a variety of expressive means. A musician that is prominent for that period is Krassimir Taskov. He is a composer, a brilliant piano performer and a pedagogue (since 2002 he has been a professor at the Prof. Pancho Vladigerov State Music Academy in Sofia).
He concertized extensively as a student and received prizes at international piano competitions in Moscow (Tchaikovsky, 1978) and Spain (Santander, 1978). After completing degrees in piano (1981) and composition (1984), he participated in a series of international seminars for composers organized by UNESCO in Bulgaria and Holland and attended the composition classes of Ton de Leeuw and Theo Loevendie (Holland), Anatol Vieru (Romania), Andrei Eshpai (Russia), Marin Goleminov and Dimiter Hristov (Bulgaria).
His ongoing performance activity includes collaborations with chamber ensembles and distinguished Bulgarian musicians as Lydia Oshavkova, Anatoli Krastev, Lyubomir Dinolov, Dimiter Tsanev, Ani Atanassova, etc. His musical partnership of over fifteen years with pianist Velislava Georgieva has been especially intensive.
Along with his performing and teaching activity, Krassimir Taskov has also composed a large number of works: for symphonic orchestra, chamber music, concertos for different instruments, piano pieces, works for two pianos, various vocal and choral works, an opera-musical. A great number of his works have won awards at prestigious international and national competitions and are being performed in Germany, Japan, France, Italy, Russia, the USA, etc. The great Bulgarian composer and conductor Vassil Kazandjiev refers to his music as being "particularly expressive and strongly impacting".
Krassimir Taskov, piano
Dimiter Tsanev, piano
Lyudmila Gerova, soprano
Eolina Quartet
Ani Atanassova, violoncello
Stoyan Bozhkov, violoncello
Stanislav Ushev
Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra |
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ID: GD331 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Collection: Opera & Vocal Collection Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraThe Bulgarian opera school is well-known throughout the world. Many Bulgarian opera singers perform at the most renowned opera stages and impress with their performance. One of them is the bass Pavel Gerdjikov. What makes him different from other famous Bulgarian singers is that he builds his career mainly in Bulgaria along with his numerous guest-performances which have made him world-famous.
Pavel Gerdjikov has taken an interest in music ever since his early childhood: he had violin and piano lessons, played in orchestras, sang in choirs, conducted… He studied at the Sofia Academy of Music under Prof. Anna Todorova and Prof. Ilia Yosifov and as he admits himself, many of his teachers in theoretical subjects left a lasting influence upon him: Prof. Stoyan Djudjev, Lyubomir Pipkov, Dragan Kardjiev. His first appointment was in the Berlin Comische Oper. In 1962 he was enlisted with the Sofia Opera and since then he has participated in all its productions. He has performed with the greatest opera names in Bulgaria: Lyubomir Bodurov, Dimitar Uzunov, Nikolai Ghiaurov, Nikola Nikolov, Alexandrina Milcheva, Raina Kabaivanska, Valeri Popova, Dimitar Petkov, Assen Selimsky, Milkana Nikolova, Liliana Bareva … He has worked with renowned conductors and directors in many countries world-wide: in almost all big European opera theatres and stages, in Japan, Australia, America. In one of his interviews Pavel Gerdjikiv mentions some of his participations: Don Juan - the performances in Salzburg with the Mozarteum Orchestra, The Queen of Spades in Gleinborn, some of his concerts in Melbourne and Sydney, the Tchaikovsky recital at the Richter Festival in Moscow. In the Mozart Sal in Vienna he sang in Shostakovich’s 14th Symphony, which was a premiere of the work outside the then USSR.
His repertoire includes all famous traditional bass parts. But besides them, he participates as a soloist in Bulgarian opera and cantata-oratorial works. He is deeply convinced that “it is impossible for a person to become a complete actor, singer or musician if he lacks in his own national musical culture… When I started studying at the Academy, I sang songs by Dobri Hristov, Pancho Vladigerov, Lyubomir Pipkov, Goleminov. After that I started singing the Fourth Symphony and The Boyana Master by Konstantin Iliev, The Apology of Socrates by Simeon Pironkov, Pentagram for bass and orchestra by Ivan Marinov. Still later I turned to the songs cycle “Foreign Poets” by Lyubomir Pipkov, and then I began to get interested in Shostakovich, his 13th and 14th Symphony… Thanks to the Bulgarian music, I began to get interested in Honegger, Bartok, Britten, Shostakovich (also the songs). Bulgarian music provoked me and opened my mind to the foreign contemporary music.
Pavel Gerdjikov is also an opera director. His preferences in this field are connected not only with the classical opera repertoire, but also with contemporary Bulgarian and foreign music. Besides developing his career as a singer and a director, Pavel Gerdjikov devotes a lot of time to his teaching activity. In 1970 he started teaching at the Academy of Music in Sofia and he is still one of the most loved teachers among the students. This is not surprising, having in mind that he is a great actor and a highly-accomplished person, with an affinity to the refined style of speaking. His students have the opportunity to know a really encyclopaedic personality, who reveals to them the vast world of art.
With the participation of: Milkana Nikolova, Liliana Bareva, Mincho Popov, Assen Selimsky
Chamber Orchestra, Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductors: Pasquale Rispoli, Alexander Vladigerov, Vassil Stefanov, Mihail Angelov |
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ID: MKM248 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: Voices and OrchestraBooklet and inlay only in russian language. |
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ID: MKM256 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: Dance MusicBooklet and inlay only in russian language. |
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ID: MKM250 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: Vocal and PianoBooklet and inlay only in russian language. |
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ID: MKM249 CDs: 1 Type: CD |
Subcollection: Vocal and PianoBooklet and inlay only in russian language. |
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