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ID: RCD13104
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Collection: Russian Piano School
Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra
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Maria Veniaminovna Yudina (1899 - 1970) was a Soviet pianist. Yudina's playing was marked by great virtuosity, spirituality, strength and intellectual rigor, with a highly idiosyncratic style and tone. She was an extensively performing performer who performed mainly in recitals or in a chamber ensemble. Her interests included, first of all, the latest Russian and world music: Yudina was the first performer in the USSR of a number of works by A. Berg, P. Hindemith, E. Kshenek, B. Bartok, A. Webern, O. Messiaen, and others.
Maria Yudina was one of the non-conforming artists. Her performance style, as well as her overall philosophical and aesthetical views on the nature of creativity, were very often at loggerheads with the established norms, which provoked a strong reaction in academic musical circles, causing a rejection of her art. Unlike many of her contemporaries, Yudina was critical of the 'romantic' treatment of the piano. The music of Bach, which she admired all her life, has a special place in her legacy. Yudina's immediately recognisable hand (the extremely prominent articulation, the expressiveness of narration, the fervent grandeur of her musical 'speech') gives the preludes and fugues a subjectively powerful character, where the asceticism and meaningfulness of thought combine to form an integral artistic whole.
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ID: RCD16329
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra
Live recordings from Kingsway Hall, London (1958-1959) |
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ID: RCD16072
CDs: 1
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Collection: Russian Piano School
Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra
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Samuil Feinberg’s work is a unique phenomenon in the history of Russian music. A composer, pianist, and teacher of extraordinary depth and originality, he combined in his art an unparalleled versatility.
To truly understand Russian pianism and the spirit of Russian Art Nouveau in music, one cannot pass by the figure of Feinberg. Yet, despite his importance, his legacy is too rarely remembered today.
This publication revives his voice, presenting Feinberg both as a brilliant interpreter of Beethoven and as a composer of remarkable individuality - through his Piano Suite No. 2 and *Piano Concerto No. 2.
This album highlights Feinberg’s triple role - as a master pianist, inspired composer, and interpreter of genius. Through these recordings, listeners can rediscover the artistry of a musician whose name belongs among the greatest of the 20th century.
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ID: RCD10307
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Piano Concerto
Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra
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The music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart stands as one of the greatest jewels of the Classical era - a time that embraced the ideals of the Enlightenment, rediscovered the aesthetic principles of antiquity, and occupied a place between the Renaissance, which laid the foundation of European cultural identity, and Romanticism, which celebrated the world of human emotion and passion. Mozart emerged as a true innovator, masterfully combining rational clarity with emotional depth. He reinterpreted the legacy of his predecessors, elevating an array of genres - from instrumental and vocal miniatures to symphonies and operas - to new heights.
This refined understanding of Mozart’s style is beautifully demonstrated by pianist Natalia Bogdanova and the “The Season” Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Vladislav Bulakhov. In the present program, the performers explore pages of Mozart’s oeuvre dedicated to the genre of the piano concerto, presenting three carefully selected works.
In the interpretation by Natalia Bogdanova and Vladislav Bulakhov, the concerto reflects the words of German critic Friedrich Rochlitz, who once described the concerto as “the pinnacle of delicacy in music,” in contrast to the symphony, which he called “the pinnacle of the grand.” With finesse and clarity, the performers convey the poetic spirit of Mozart’s world, where simplicity turns into profundity and lightness into philosophical contemplation. |
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ID: RCD16336
CDs: 2
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Collection: Russian Piano School
Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra
Academic Russian Choir of the USSR, A. Sveshnikov Valery (Prométhée) / State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Moscow State Philharmonic, Konstantin Ivanov (Prométhée) / Recorded in 1970-79 / Historical Recordings
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ID: MELCD1002227
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Piano Concerto
Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra
Melodiya presents a set of Prokofiev’s piano concertos performed by Vladimir Krainev.One of the brightest composers/pianists of his time, Prokofiev reflected in his piano concertos the most recognizable features of his artistic individuality like in a mirror. Having resolutely deserted the romantic tradition of the concerto genre, he created a new type of it. The motive toccata style, a splendid technique of scales and passages - all combined with fragile lyricism; sharp grotesque contrasts - and a sunny emotion of life-asserting; a crystal clear form and pattern - and sudden twists of the musical “plot”… This is what a figurative world of these works appears to be with each of them being individual realization of the genre and never continuing the line of the previous one.People’s Artist of the USSR Vladimir Krainev is indeed among the best interpreters of domestic music of the 20th century. While a student of the Moscow Conservatory, he became a world-famous pianist after his victories at the international competitions in Leeds and Lisbon. In 1970, he won the first prize of the International Tchaikovsky Competition.Apart from his flawless technical skills and rich sound palette, Vladimir Krainev was notable for a bright temperament which often roused the artist to do bold and even risky interpretations (one of the Austrian newspapers dubbed him “a tiger of keys on the arena”). That is probably why Prokofiev’s music was so dear to Krainev, who always had the composer’s concertos, sonatas and numerous piano pieces in his repertoire. Vladimir Krainev recorded Prokofiev’s five piano concertos were recorded with the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Philharmonic Society conducted by Dmitri Kitayenko. |
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ID: MELCD1002240
CDs: 2
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra
Firma Melodiya presents recordings of the outstanding St Petersburg pianist Grigory Sokolov.
This musician’s performance is notable for particular concentration and complete immersion in the musical element. His manner amazes with perfection of technique in the absence of external effects of any kind.
Grigory Sokolov is one of the few modern pianists who always include intellectual piano masterpieces in their programmes, which requires a special mood from both the performer and the audience - Beethoven’s sonatas of the latter period, J S Bach’s 'The Art of Fugue', Brahms’ last pieces.
Most of Sokolov’s recordings were made from live broadcasts in Leningrad/St Petersburg and Moscow - he prefers concert performances to studio work.
This set combines the large-scale dramatic canvases of Beethoven’s sonatas with the restless romantic heroics of Scriabin’s Third Sonata where Sokolov emphasizes the Promethean spirit without erasing the individuality of the Russian genius of the 20th century.
However, what makes this set particularly interesting is Grigory Sokolov’s recordings of the works by his contemporary, Leningrad composer Boris Arapov. The piano sonata and concerto for violin, piano, percussion and chamber orchestra recorded by the pianist are released on Melodiya for the first time.
Grigory Sokolov made the featured recordings of the works by Beethoven, Scriabin and Arapov between 1972 and 1988.
Arapov:
Concerto for violin, piano and percussion with chamber orchestra
with Nikolay Moskalenko (percussions) & khail Vaiman (violin)
Chamber Orchestra of the Leningrad State Philharmonic Society, Alexander Dmitriyev
Piano Sonata No. 2
Beethoven:
Piano Sonata No. 27 in E minor, Op. 90
Piano Sonata No. 32 in C minor, Op. 111
Piano Sonata No. 7 in D major, Op. 10 No. 3
Scriabin:
Piano Sonata No. 3 in F sharp minor, Op. 23
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Grigory Sokolov (piano) |
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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)
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(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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