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Georgy Sviridov - Poem to the Memory of Sergei Yesenin

Georgy Sviridov - Poem to the Memory of Sergei Yesenin
ID: MELCD1002336
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Subcollection: Vocal and Piano

Georgy Sviridov, piano (11-17)
Alexei Maslennikov, tenor
Igor Morozov, baritone (12, 14-16)
State Republican Academic Russian Yurlov Choir (1-10, 18-21)
Leningrad State Philharmonics’ Symphony Orchestra - conductor - Yuri Temirkanov (1-10)
Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor - Gennady Rozhdestvensky (18-21)

Recordings: 1957 (1-10),1980 (11-17), 1970 (18-21)


Firma Melodiya presents an album dedicated to the anniversaries of two great figures of Russian culture of the 20th century - Sergei Yesenin (1895-1925) and Georgy Sviridov (1915-1998).
“Once … I met a poet I knew, and he spent a long time reading Yesenin for me. That’s when Yesenin’s verses imprinted themselves on my soul. When I got back home, I could not fall
asleep… The music came suddenly. … That was how I wrote my first song to Yesenin’s text which later became a core song in my Poem to the Memory of Sergei Yesenin. The rest of the songs were composed during two weeks, all at once”. The premiere of the Poem to the Memory of Sergei Yesenin took place in 1956, in Moscow and was a new milestone in the composer’s career properly unveiling his original style and subtle feeling for poetry to the public. On the other hand, Sviridov’s Poem where the composer strived to render the poet’s spiritual side and passionate “love for the native land” became an actual rehabilitation of Yesenin’s poetry which had been covertly prohibited for a long time. Soon after completion of the vocal and symphonic Poem,
the composer came up with the cycle My Father Is a Peasant for tenor, baritone and piano where Yesenin’s images of Russian nature and scenes of country life were expressed by means
of chamber vocal lyric music.
Wooden Russia, a small cantata for tenor, men’s choir and orchestra was composed in 1964 and had an epigraph taken from Yesenin’s verses “Russia, my wooden Russia!”. The poet’s four
poems recreate an image of old patriarchal Russia while the last lines of the final movement herald its tragic demise.
Georgy Sviridov’s cantatas set to the poetry of Sergei Yesenin are performed by the Republican Academic Choir led by Alexander Yurlov and such luminaries of domestic conducting art as Yuri Temirkanov and Gennady Rozhdestvensky. The chamber cycle is sung by Alexei Maslennikov, an outstanding interpreter of Sviridov’s music who is accompanied by the author.
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NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV - MOZART AND SALIERI - THE NOBLEWOMAN VERA SHELOGA

NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV - MOZART AND SALIERI - THE NOBLEWOMAN VERA SHELOGA
ID: MELCD1002344
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Opera

Firma Melodiya presents an album with two rare operas of Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov - The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga and Mozart and Salieri.
Both of the one-act operas were written in the second half of the 1890s, in the period of the great Russian composer’s new heyday. Mozart and Salieri continued a peculiar tradition that was begun by Alexander Dargomyzhsky in The Stone Guest, a musical incarnation of Alexander Pushkin’s Little Tragedies. Similar to its predecessor, Rimsky-Korsakov did not change anything in Pushkin’s text turning the opera into a continuous dialogue of two characters. The citation from Mozart’s Requiem wonderfully fits into the musical development of the opera that is based on a striking contrast between the descriptions of the symbolically generalized figures - the Genius and the Envious One.
The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga emerged as an addition (prologue) to Rimsky Korsakov’s opera The Maid of Pskov that he worked on in those years. The scale and certain independence of this musical and dramatic picture that tells a story of secret love between the young Ivan the Terrible and a young boyarynia, as well as the difference in the author’s musical style that evolved over twenty years of his artistic career, induced him publish The Noblewoman Vera Sheloga as an individual work.
Rimsky-Korsakov’s operas were recorded in 1986 by the company of the USSR Bolshoi Theatre led by the prominent conductor Mark Ermler starring Tamara Milashkina, Nina Grigorieva, Evgeny Nesterenko, Alexander Fedin and other leading soloists of the theatre.


Characters and performers:
Mozart - Alexander Fedin, tenor
Salieri - Evgeny Nesterenko, bass
A blind fiddler
S. Girshenko, violin solo
V. Chasovennaya, piano
The USSR State Choir conducted by I. Agafonnikov
The Orchestra of the USSR StateAcademic Bolshoi Theatre
Conductor - Mark Ermler
Recorded in 1986.


Characters and performers:
Boyar Ivan Semyonovich Sheloga -Vladimir Karimov, bass
Vera Dmitriyevna, his wife - Tamara Milashkina, soprano
Nadezhda Nasonova, Vera’s sister -Olga Teryushnova, mezzo-soprano
Prince Yuri Ivanovich Tokmakov -Vladimir Karimov, bass
Vlasyevna, Nadezhda’s nurse -Nina Grigorieva, contralto
The Orchestra of the USSR StateAcademic Bolshoi Theatre
Conductor - Mark Ermler
Recorded in 1985.
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LEONID KOGAN - VIOLIN CONCERTOS

LEONID KOGAN - VIOLIN CONCERTOS
ID: MELCD1002328
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Violin Concerto
Subcollection: Violin and Orchestra

Leonid Kogan, violin
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Pierre Monteux (1-3)
Paris Conservatory Concert
Society Orchestra
Conductor - Constantin Silvestri (4-7)
Recorded in January 11, 1958 (1-3); 1959 (4-7).
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Boris Frumkin - Oleg Lundstrem Jazz Orchestra - Samara fair

Boris Frumkin - Oleg Lundstrem Jazz Orchestra - Samara fair
ID: MELCD6002158
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Jazz
Subcollection: Orchestra

Dear jazz friends, This new CD made up of pieces which not specifically composed for this recording sessions. It is collection of compositions that we play live on stage and that we now wish to share with a broader jazz audience. The recordings include compositions by Oleg Lundstrem, several arrangements by the one and only Vitaly Dolgov. The CD also features some pieces that were composed by me at diffirent times in the past and arranged by me and Nick Levinovsky, an old friend of mine and a brilliant musician. The soloists' line-up includes Ivan Volkov, Oleg Grymov, Denis Prushinsky, Roman Sekachev, Maxim Piganov, Igor Ulanov and Vladimir Zhurkin. Some solos you can hear performed by one of the best trumpet players of the country - Victor «Arzu» Guseynov. Follow us and explore the subtle corners of the magnificent world of jazz where sounds, human hearts and souls merge in a precious melodious fusion... Boris Frumkin, Music Director and Conductor of «Oleg Lundstrem Jazz Orchestra»
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PROKOFIEV - BRAHMS - CONCERTOS FOR CELLO AND ORCHESTRA

PROKOFIEV - BRAHMS - CONCERTOS FOR CELLO AND
ORCHESTRA
ID: MELCD1002380
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Cello Concerto
Subcollection: Cello and Orchestra

Natalia Gutman, cello
Oleg Kagan, violin (4-6)
The USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra
Conductors:
Alexander Lazarev (1-3),
Evgeny Svetlanov (4-6)
Recorded broadcasts from the grand Hall of the Moscow
Conservatory: 1981 (1-3), 25 December 1981 (4-6)

Firma Melodiya presents recordings of Brahms and Prokofiev concertos performed by Natalia Gutman and Oleg Kagan.
One of the world’s best cellists, a People’s Artist of the USSR, and an owner of the State Prize of Russia, Natalia Gutman received four competition prizes (the
World Festival of Youth and Students in Vienna in 1959 and the Prague Spring International Music Festival in 1961, a silver medal of the All-Union Competition of Performing Musicians in 1961 and the third prize of the 1962 International Tchaikovsky Competition) when she was a student. In the third round of the Moscow tournament, she made a brilliant appearance with Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony-Concerto, the great composer’s last work which was yet to be estimated by its true worth.
Sviatoslav Richter, Isaac Stern, Viktor Tretiakov, Yuri Bashmet, Eliso Virsaladze and many others have been the cellist’s ensemble partners. Natalia Gutman’s brightest artistic alliance was with her husband and remarkable violinist Oleg Kagan (1946-1990). A pupil of David Oistrakh, silver prize winner of the 1966 International Tchaikovsky Competition and owner of the first prizes of the 1965 International Jean Sibelius Competition in Helsinki and the 1968 International Johann Sebastian Bach Competition in Leipzig, Oleg Kagan was famous as a soloist and ensemble performer, and fine interpreter of classical and contemporary music. His death interrupted his active performing career in the prime of his life. The album features Oleg Kagan and Natalia Gutman playing Johannes Brahms’s double concerto, the German master’s last orchestral piece. The soloists are accompanied by the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Evgeny Svetlanov and Alexander Lazarev.
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W. A. MOZART - CHURCH SONATAS

W. A. MOZART - CHURCH SONATAS
ID: MELCD1002265
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Sacred Music
Subcollection: Organ

Vladimir Spivakov, 1st violin
Anatoly Sheinyuk, 2nd violin
Yuli Turovsky, cello
Sergey Dizhur, organ

Firma Melodiya presents an album of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s Church Sonatas.
Vladimir Spivakov is known for his Mozart interpretations as a soloist, chamber ensemble member and conductor. In his renditions, Mozart’s concertos, violin sonatas, ensembles, divertimentos, symphonies and masses preserve the combination of lightness and inner depth, youthful naivety and philosophic wisdom which were so characteristic of the great Salzburger.
From the first years of his artistic career, Spivakov showed interest in Mozart’s heritage composed in different genres.
Mozart wrote his Church Sonatas in the period of his service for the Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg in 1767 to 1779. Appointed as organist, he already
was a skillful violinist as well. Although his onemovement “sonatas” (in fact, these are ensembles for three string instruments and organ) were intended for divine services, they sound rather secular and buoyant.
Mozart’s fourteen Church Sonatas were recorded in 1974 by a constellation of brilliant musicians such as Vladimir Spivakov, violinist Anatoly Sheinyuk (now a professor of the Detroit Conservatory), Yuli Turovsky, a cellist and future
founder of the I Musici de Montréal Chamber Orchestra, and Sergei Dizhur, one of the best Soviet organists.
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F.Schubert - F.Chopin - Works for Cello and Piano - A. Zagorinsky, cello- E. Steen-Nokleberg, piano

F.Schubert - F.Chopin -  Works for Cello and Piano - A. Zagorinsky, cello- E. Steen-Nokleberg, piano
ID: MELCD1002356
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Piano and Cello

Firma Melodiya presents the duo of cellist Alexander Zagorinsky and pianist Einar Steen-Nøkleberg.

Alexander Zagorinsky, one of the brightest musicians of his generation. An Meritorious Artist of Russia, professor of the Gnessins Russian Music Academy, prize-winner of the 9th International Tchaikovsky Competition and other significant musical contests, was the first concertmaster of the cello section of the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Philharmonic Society for ten years. Now he has been a solo performer recognized worldwide for over two decades. “I think there is no one in Russia who plays the cello like that,” admitted Edison Denisov, an outstanding composer of the 20th century.

A performer of an extensive repertoire, Alexander Zagorinsky has turned to music of different ages - from Bach and Telemann to his contemporaries. The cellist's play is characteristic for subtle rendition of composing style, nobility and richness of sound, depth of interpretation.

Alexander Zagorinsky has performed with the renowned Norwegian pianist and professor Einar Steen-Nøkleberg for many years now. One of the leading interpreter of Edvard Grieg's music, Steen-Nøkleberg is a recognized performer of romantic music and prominent educator - he has performed and given courses across the world and been a judge at a number of international competitions. The duet of Zagorinsky and Steen-Nøkleberg has been acclaimed by critics as one of today's best ensembles. The musicians' complete mutual understanding and common views on the music they play allow them to be one whole when they perform.

The album features masterpieces of chamber music from the romantic era - Franz Schubert's Arpeggione Sonata and Frédéric Chopin’s Cello Sonata and Introduction and Polonaise brillante.
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A. BERG - O. MSSIAEN - Chamber Works

A. BERG - O. MSSIAEN - Chamber Works
ID: MELCD1002310
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Piano and Clarinet

Firma Melodiya presents a recording of chamber works by Alban Berg and Olivier Messiaen.

Four Pieces for Clarinet and Piano (1913) were created by Alban Berg, one of the pupils of Arnold Schoenberg, the founder of the Second Viennese School, in a period of an intense creative ascent, a year before he began to work on his opera Wozzeck.

Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time is arguably one of the most amazing pages of chamber music of the 20th century. It was composed during the composer’s stay in German prisoner-of-war camp where it was premiered in January of 1941. The epigraph to the entire work was inspired by text from the Book of Revelation:

“And I saw another mighty angel come down from heaven, clothed with a cloud: and a rainbow was upon his head, and his face was as it were the sun, and his feet as pillars of fire ... and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left foot on the earth .... And the angel which I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his hand to heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever and ever ... that there should be time no longer: But in the days of the voice of the seventh angel, when he shall begin to sound, the mystery of God should be finished.”

The works were first performed in the former USSR for the first time in 1998 at the Gift to the Vine music festival in the Georgian city of Telavi. The festival was initiated by two outstanding Soviet musicians - cellist Natalia Gutman and violinist Oleg Kagan. The composer and pianist Vasily Lobanov and Swiss clarinetist, then a member of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Eduard Brunner, both recognized interpreters of contemporary music, were among the participants of the festival. A year later, the Quartet for the End of Time was performed by the same line-up in Moscow at Sviatoslav Richter’s December Evenings festival at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts.

The featured recording was made at one of the last performances of Oleg Kagan who passed away prematurely in 1990.

(1-4) - Eduard Brunner, clarinet / Vasily Lobanov, piano
(5 - 12) - Oleg Kagan, violin / Eduard Brunner, clarinet / Natalia Gutman, cello / Vasily Lobanov, piano
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F. SCHUBERT - J. BRAHMS - Duets for Violin and Piano - David Oistrakh, violin - Frida Bauer, piano

F. SCHUBERT - J. BRAHMS - Duets for Violin and Piano - David Oistrakh, violin - Frida Bauer, piano
ID: MELCD1002147
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Piano and Violin

Firma Melodiya presents sting compositions by Franz Schubert and Johannes Brahms performed by David Oistrakh.

The prominent violinist did not part with his violin for more than sixty years, and indeed, he left numerous recordings made in studio and at concert to us. However, Oistrakh’s studio work during his last years, when he was not that active as a concert performer, is particularly interesting, and his chamber programmes were viewed as true revelations.

Oistrakh renders a songful and sunny world of Schubert’s duet and fantasia, and restrained emotions and hidden drama of Brahms’s first sonata with an inimitable, unique intonation and nobility of tone. A sensitive listener might think that the music had waited for its performer for a century.

In those years, Frida Bauer, a remarkable pianist and soloist of the Moscow Philharmonic Society, was the violinist’s ensemble partner. The recordings
were made in 1970-1974.
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A. GLAZUNOV - The Seasons - Symphony Op.6 - N.Golovanov

A. GLAZUNOV - The Seasons - Symphony Op.6 - N.Golovanov
ID: MELCD1000929
CDs: 1
Type: CD
Collection: Orchestral Works
Subcollection: Orchestra

GLAZUNOV:THE SEASONS OP.67(1929)/SYMPHONY NO.6 OP.58(1952):ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV(cond)/SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA/ETC
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