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ID: MELCD1001749
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Historical Recordings
Subcollection: Piano
Alexander Jocheles won a prize at the Second Frederic Chopin Pianists’ Competition in Warsaw in 1932. However his fame as a pianist was ensured by the Second Prize won him in the First All-Union Competition for Musicians-Performers.
Alexander Jocheles had a preference for a broad repertoire which included numerous compositions that were rarely heard in performance by Soviet pianists of his time: from his own editions of Jean Philippe Rameau’s concertos and the rarely performed one-movement Concerto in D major by Ludwig van Beethoven to Claude Debussy’s Fantasy, Arthur Honegger’s Concertino and Francis Poulenc’s “Rhapsody Negre” - compositions which he presented to his country’s public for the first time.
Jocheles is well-known as having made a number of his own transcriptions - for instance, in 1947 he performed Beethoven’s “Hammerklavier” Sonata N. 29 (opus 106) in transcription for piano and orchestra. In Jocheles’ concerts and recitals his transcriptions of Bach’s, Handel’s and Gluck’s music took up halves of concerts. Alexander Lvovich pertained to the select few pianists who had preserved and developed the tradition of transcriptions. Of special interest is his work on completion and reconstruction of Schubert’s piano sketches.
From 1952 Alexander Lvovich was a professor of the Gnesins’ State Music pedagogical institute.
At the Gnesins’ Institute Jocheles was the initiator of the lengthy cycle of concerts “The History of the Piano Sonata for 300 Years.”
Alexander Jocheles was an outstanding piano pedagogue. His ability to analyze musical compositions, remarkable ingenuity in searching different variants of fingerings, a wealth of knowledge of music history and culture and phenomenal memory made him into a veritably legendary figure.
The “Melody” record company had released three times A. Jocheles’ pedagogical commentaries to the performance of the following works: J.S. Bach’s “Capriccio on the Departure of his Beloved Brother,” Ludwig van Beethoven’s Piano Sonata N. 17, opus 31, N. 2 and Johannes Brahms’ Variations on a Theme by Schumann, which enjoyed popularity among students, pedagogues and fans of the art of piano playing. |
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ID: MELCD1001800
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera & Vocal Collection
Subcollection: Choir and Orchestra
Nikolay Lysenko was the founder of the Ukrainian national composer school and his works combine the traditions of the Ukrainian folk theatre and the Russian classics. The premiere of Taras Bulba, a deeply national work, took place on 4th October 1924. This recording of highlights was made in 1972 and was conducted by Konstantin Simeonov , an outstanding Soviet conductor.
Fragments from the opera Taras Bulba in the Ukrainian language.
Libretto by Mykhailo Starytsky.
Literature edition by N. Rylsky. |
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ID: MELCD1001789
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Piano Concerto
Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra
Yakov Izrailevich Zak was born in Odessa in 1913 to a musical family. In 1937 he won first prize in the International Frederick Chopin Competition. This made him famous and his portraits decorated the streets of Moscow. In the fifties and sixties he often toured abroad. This CD is part of the “Legends of the XX Century” series.
(1 - 10) Yakov Zak, piano
(1 - 3) USSR State Symphony Orchestra - Evgeny Svetlanov, conductor
(7 -10) All-Union Radio Grand Symphony Orchestra - Kurt Sanderling, conductor |
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ID: MELCD1001810
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Organ Collection
Subcollection: Organ
Recorded in 1971
Oleg Yanchenko founded the Minsk Chamber Orchestra and later became a soloist of the Moscow Philharmonic Society and a professor at the Moscow Conservatoire. In 1997 he became a People’s Artist of Russia and gave his last concert in 2007. He was also a composer and here we have the opportunity of hearing him perform one his own concertos.
(1 - 7) Oleg Yanchenko, organ
(4 ) Oleg Yanchenko, organ / Chamber Orchestra of the Lithuanian State Philharmonic Society -Saulyus Sondetskis, Conductor |
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ID: MELCD1001808
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Piano and Orchestra
(1 - 3) Dimitri Bashkirov, piano / USSR State Symphony Orchestra - Evgeny Svetlanov, conductor
(4 - 6) Anatoly Vedernikov, piano
(7 - 10) Valentin Berlinsky, cello / Rostislav Dubinsky, violin / Lubov Yedlina, piano
(1) Bogodar Kotorovich, violin / Chamber Orchestra - Zakhary Kozharsky, conductor |
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ID: MELCD1001827
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano
Glinka created piano pieces all his life. Be it variations on his own or other composers’ themes, or tiny yet elegant miniatures in various dance genres, they all amaze us with their extraordinary finesse and skillfullness requiring the performer’s skills to match. The creative work of pianist Valeri Konstantinovich Kamyshov invariably won his listeners. “I have always admired Valeri Kamyshov for his love for art and noble sense of beauty. He has plenty of musical ideas and unique virtuosity,” said Yakov Flier whose class the pianist graduated from the Moscow Conservatory (1966) and whose post-graduate student he was until 1968. Valeri Kamyshov’s career was distinguished with high awards such as the second prize of All- Union Competition in 1961, the fifth prize of the Tchaikovsky Competition in 1962, and the second prize of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels in 1968. |
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ID: MELCD1001833
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Ballet Music
Subcollection: Orchestra
This ballet in four scenes is based on Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale “The Ice Maiden”. It was first performed at the Paris Opera in 1928 and this performance was recorded in 1966.
Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Ice Maiden was taken as a basis for the libretto of Le baiser de la fée - a ballet that was ordered by Ida Rubinstein for her seasons. However, Stravinsky admitted that only some motifs were left from the Danish writer's fairy tale. They are the mother and her child lost in the blizzard, the Fairy who marked the child with her magic kiss and who then took him away to her miraculous world of eternal life. Using some themes from the pieces by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Stravinsky dedicated to the great Russian composer his score and supposed that the image of the Fairy and her magical kiss is very actual, because each of Tchaikovsky's creations was sealed with the muse's kiss. |
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ID: MELCD1001830
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Violin and Cello
The names of the composers whose works are featured on this album come from different periods of the world music culture. Each of them is a great artist of his time and one of the heights in the historical process of art's development. Arcangelo Corelli (1653 - 1713) was a remarkable violinist and composer, the founder of the Roman violin school who devised the classical fundamentals of the style and technique of violin playing. Corelli's artistic legacy is quite extensive. Unlike most of his contemporaries, the composer worked within the sphere of instrumental genres. He composed numerous orchestral соncerti grossi, violin and basso continuo sonatas, and trio sonatas. Both in orchestral and ensemble music, he showed his worth as a prominent connoisseur of the violin's richest capabilities. The famous Italian Antonio Vivaldi (1678 - 1741) infamously said, "I can write a concerto faster than a copyist writes out the orchestral voices!" A striking quickness and ease of Vivaldi's composing process was an organic element of the composer's enormous professionalism he conquered the world of music with. The artistic legacy of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756 - 1791) is unbounded indeed. His contribution to all music genres can never be overestimated. It is impossible to name a theatre company, a solo player, a vocalist, a choir, a symphony orchestra or a chamber ensemble that has never performed Mozart's masterpieces.¨ |
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ID: MELCD1001828
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra
In the first half of the 19th century, Russian composers began to show an interest for the music of the Orient. Then, at the very beginning of the century, the Caucasus became open for visits. Not only composers, but also poets and painters were impressed with its exoticism, and the notion "Orient" included not just the Arab East, but the Caucasus as well. In terms of style, its nature, traditions, music and dances were literally overwhelming. The Caucasus inspired many of the works of the Russian culture of the 19th century. The territorial proximity of the Caucasus to Russia, close associations with the culture and arts of the Caucasus, including the works by Alexander Pushkin and Mikhail Lermontov, and, mainly, visits of Russian composers such as Mikhail Glinka and Mily Balakirev to the Caucasus - all that were reasons why orientality found its fullest development and expression in the Russian music as compared to the other European music cultures. |
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ID: MELCD1001844
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Sacred Music
Subcollection: Choir
Soloist: David Varzhapetyan
Komitas was the founder of the Armenian national school of composition and his contribution to Armenian culture cannot be overestimated. Patareg, for male choir is his greatest work and was premiered in 1915. |
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