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ID: MELCD3001685
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Folk Music
CD1
1 Shrovetide, Shrovetide on the Streets
2 Oh, Spring, Oh, Beautiful
3 Give Us Your Blessing, Mother for Welcoming the Spring!
4 Green Garden Where Cherries Grow!
5 They Brought on Bush From the Green Woods
6 Today We Have st. John's Eve
7 Summer
8 The Rye Was Reaped Under the Crescent
9 Oh, You Reaping Work
10 Oh, Give Me Some Advice
11 How the Danube Had an Argument with the Sea
12 The Wind Is Blowing, the Rye Is Ripening
13 Our Landowner Has an Early Harvest
14 Is the Cup of the Nut Full, Is It Filled with the Kernel, Is It Full?
15 Towards the Danube
16 Carol
17 Let Us Sing a Song to Our Wonderful Master
18 O-Ho-Ho, My Goat, O-Ho-Ho, My Grey One
19 Kamarytskaya
20 Let Us Find Tsareshka a Wife
21 Lyavonikha
22 The Carol Song!
23 Grow, Round Loaf
24 Have No Fear, Kinsmen
25 How Young Zinna Sat at the Table
26 How to Pity the Bride
27 How the Maple Leaf Flew Into the Garden
28 The Round Loaf Was Boasting of Itself
29 Do You Know, Nobody Is Tending to the Vine Garden
30 Oh, Two Rivers Have Merged Together
31 Thank You, My Girls for This Outfit
32 Oh, I Am Crying - Do You Not Hear Me
33 Wedding March for the Newlyweds
34 Syamenaoona
35 Oh, My Dear Kinsmen, It Is Time to Go Home
36 The Silken Thread Hits Against the Wall
37 The Birch Was Standing by the Gates
38 Come Out Mother, From Your New Cell
39 The Birth
40 My Friend, Godfather, Why Are You Sitting There So Sad?
41 Yes, Thank the Blacksmith for Having Set Up This Game for Us
CD2
42 Gypsies
1 The Valley Is Wide, the Mist Is Spreading
2 I Will Plant Cucumbers in the Cherry Garden
3 Oh, From Under the Hill the Wild Wind Is Blowing
4 Recruiter's Song
5 My Cuckoo
6 Nightingale, Nightingale, Sorrowful, Unhappy
7 Oh, I Shall Go Up on That Hill, Where My Love Awoke
8 Oh, Are You, Mother Cherry, or Am I Redundant for You?
9 Oh, You Mist, You Mist
10 I Shall Plant Cucumber Over the Fast River
11 Over Siberia the Sun Is Rising
12 Oh, Under the Hill, Under the Hill, It Is Still Misty
13 On the Turkish Fields Oh! Nothing Grows There
14 The Ox Cart Drivers Were Going by
15 Oh, Upon the Valley
16 Mikita Yurachka
17 Noble Lady
18 Gulyats Byka
19 Padushechka
20 Little Cossack. Kamarytsky. Polka
21 Polka
22 The Miner Plows the Field
23 Polka
24 Tsyalushachka
25 The Mowers Cut the Hay and the Wind Blows
26 The Mowers Cut the Hay and the Wind Blows
27 All on My Own
28 Quadrille
29 Ternitsa
30 Shastak
31 Polka |
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ID: MELCD3001640
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Russian Folk Music
The anthology consists of two compact discs and includes specimens of song and instrumental musical numbers, recorded in various regions of Russia. This edition features a compilation of works of various genres, featuring both solo and ensemble performance: from the earliest peasant calendar songs to the products of late city culture. Widely represented are dance and round (“khorovod”) songs and instrumental tunes from all throughout Russia («The Crescent Moon Shines», «Sufferings», etc), and also rare recordings are presented of musical compositions from traditions of particular regions of the country («The Jackdaw Flew», tunes played on a Shepherd’s Barabanka Pipe, brelka pipe and so on). Special attention is deserved by the ensembles and solo singers in whose performance the songs and tunes are sounded out. Performers: O. Manichkina, Podseredneye village, Folk Music Ensemble from Sokolovka village, M. Shcherbinin, Folk Music Chorus of Bolshe-Bykovo village, V. Sadovnikov, P. Semin, Ivanovo region, V. Sadovnikov (bass horn) Recordings from 1962-1989 Total time: 1CD 66.34; 2CD 62.47 |
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ID: MELCD1002290
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Choral Collection
Subcollection: Voice and Choir
Firma Melodiya presents one of the brightest masterpieces of Russian choral music of the 20th century - Valery Gavrilin’s Chimes.
This composer is by right named Georgy Sviridov’s successor. The major motifs of Valery Gavrilin’s music are associated with folklore, images of the Russian north and native region of Vologda.
Chimes, a “performance symphony” as the composer defined the genre of the piece, was written for soloists, choir, oboe and percussion, and subtitled “upon reading V. Shukshin”. The roots of his art go deep into the native land”, Gavrilin commented on the works of Vasily Shukshin, an outstanding Russian writer, actor and film director, a singer of the Russian provinces. The key image of the piece was borrowed from one of Shukshin’s novels - a “noble robber” (Stepan Razin, a Cossack leader of the Russian peasant revolt of the 17th century). The text was compiled of folklore sources and Vladimir Monomakh’s Instructions, a Russian literary monument of the 12th century.
Chimes was premiered in Leningrad and Moscow in 1984. The work which received a State Prize of the USSR won recognition of a broad audience. “It is written with blood of the heart. Living, contemporary music of a deeply national stamp, and above all, of a present-day world-view born here, in our land”, Georgy Sviridov commented on the work.
Chimes was composed for the Moscow Chamber Choir which was founded by the prominent choral conductor Vladimir Minin in 1972 and is still one of the best choirs of Russia has successfully represented traditions of Russian choral signing in this country and abroad.
The recording of Valery Gavrilin’s Chimes performed by the Moscow Chamber Choir with the participation of Rogvold Sukhoverko, a renowned actor of Sovremennik Theatre, Anatoly Lyubimov, an oboist and soloist of the State Academic Symphony Orchestra, and other musicians led by Vladimir Minin was made in 1988. |
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ID: MELCD1002301
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Baroque
Subcollection: Voices and Orchestra
For the anniversary of maestro Vladimir Spivakov, Firma Melodiya presents a unique, previously unreleased recording of the Moscow Virtuosi chamber orchestra made on 28 December 1988 in the Big Hall of the Moscow Conservatory.
From the first years of their existence, the Moscow Virtuosi, founded by Vladimir Spivakov, lived up to the highest standards of mastery on both domestic and global scales. It was a genuine 'orchestra of soloists' comprising prize-winners of domestic and international competitions, concertmasters of the best orchestras of Moscow many of whom could count on a brilliant solo career.
Although the Virtuosi spent a lot of time in the studio, it is the orchestra’s concert recordings that convey the atmosphere of a living, inspired contact with the audience.
The charitable activities Vladimir Spivakov has been involved in for many years now are evidence of his great human responsiveness, his desire to support talented children and his empathy for people’s suffering. The pre-New Year concert of 1988 was a fundraising event to benefit the Armenian children who suffered in the earthquake.
The concert, comprising music of Johann Sebastian Bach, featured other prominent musicians as well - Mikhail Pletnev, Araxia Davtian, an Honoured Artist of the Armenian SSR, and Bernard Soustrot, a world renowned French trumpeter. However, Adagio from the Easter Oratorio for oboe and orchestra performed instead of an encore by Alexei Utkin, an oboist and future founder of the Hermitage Ensemble, was a genuine climax of the event. The music reflecting upon passions of Christ’s earthly life sounded like a requiem for the tens of thousands of people who were buried alive in Spitak and Leninakan.
J.S. Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G Major, BWV1048
Cantata BWV51 'Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen'
Araxia Davtian (soprano) & Bernard Soustrot (trumpet)
Easter Oratorio, BWV249: Adagio (sinfonia)encore (presented by V. Spivakov)
Alexei Utkin (oboe)
Keyboard Concerto No. 1 in D minor, BWV1052
Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV1068
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Moscow Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra - Vladimir Spivakov |
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ID: MELCD1002326
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Ballet Music
Subcollection: Orchestra
Firma Melodiya presents a recording of Arif Melikovs Legend of Love, one of the most outstanding works of Soviet ballet theatre. Legend of Love (19581961) was one of the first large-scale works written by the 28-year-old composer, but it was this ballet that brought him worldwide fame. The ballet was commissioned by the Kirov (now Mariinsky) Opera and Ballet Theatre and created in close collaboration with its co-authors choreographer Yuri Grigorovich, librettist Nâzim Hikmet, set designer Semyon Virsaladze and conductor Niyazi. Following a triumphant premiere in 1961 in Leningrad, Legend of Love was produced at the Moscow Bolshoi Theatre and then staged at many theatres of the USSR, Europe and the world. The popularity of the ballet based on the Persian legend Khosrow and Shirin about tragic love and self-sacrifice has not waned. The recording was made by the Big Symphony Orchestra of All-Union Radio and Central Television of the USSR conducted by young Valery Gergiev in 1988. |
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ID: MELCD3001845
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Folk Music
The song lore of the Volga Tatars is a unique blend of singing traditions of the ancient Orient and artistic techniques of European music. This collection features Tartar songs of various genres by well known and loved singers. As well as folk song classics, the anthology includes instrumental versions of folk songs played on the garmon, kubyz and kuray. These recordings were made from 1960 to 1981
1. Sahralarda
2. Ramay
3. Unsya avyl kyuye
4. Oummoogoolsoom
5. Tugan il
6. Olly yulnyn tuzany
7. Belyazeghim, yuzyaghim
8. Sagat chylbyry
9. Berkegyan
10. Sarman
11. Salkyn chismya
12. Havalarda yuldooz
13. Apeepa
14. Galiyabanoo
15. Ouyel
16. Alfiya
17. Minzyalya
18. Saniya
19. Jany-yem baghyrem
20. Kara ourman asha
21. Fazyl chishmyase
22. Zanger Kulmek
23. Avyl kyuye
CD2:
1. Issle ghyul
2. Achma Tarazanne
3. Ghullyar ussya
4. Avyl kyuye
5. Zyanghyar tyuymya
6. Sajida
7. Ey, janyem, soolarda
8. Kyalyaoo Gaysha
9. Sibelya chachak
10. Haman istya
11. Firdaveskyay
12. Bolyn
13. Ozatoo
14. Kaz kanaty
15. Alsoo
16. Shakhta
17. Syunmyass dart
18. Soolarda
19. Atkyayemnen ooyenda
20. Isjkyakche jiry
21. Iske kara orrman
22. Karachtau avyl kyuye
23. Al Zaynabem
Ilkham Shakirov, Gabdulla Rakhimkulov, Alfiya Afzalova, Gulsum Suleymaniva & Rafael Ilyassov, Flera Suleymanova, Masgut Imashev |
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ID: MELCD1000775
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Symphony
Subcollection: Orchestra
Shostakovich:
Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103 'The year 1905'
Symphony No. 12 in D minor, Op. 112 'The Year 1917'
Symphony No. 15 in A major, Op. 141 |
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ID: MELCD1001023
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Chamber Orchestra
CD1
(1 - 4) Djakhanguir Karaev, piano / Akif Abdullaev, piano
(5 - 8) - BaKaRa Ensemble - Rauf Abdullaev, conductor
CD2
(1 - 4) Chamber Orchestra of the Opera Studio of the Azerbaijan State Conservatory
(5) - Azerbaijan State Symphony Orchestra of name Uz. Gadzhibekov
Karaev:
Alla 'nostalgia'
Sonata for two players
CD2
"1791"
Tristessa I
Bakara Ensemble |
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ID: MELCD1002353
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Opera Collection
Subcollection: Opera
Firma Melodiya presents a unique recording of Sergei Prokofiev’s last opera The Story of a Real Man.
This work is arguably the least known one in Prokofiev’s musical theatre legacy. Finished in 1948, it was never staged in the composer’s lifetime (its “private” performance led to banning the opera and accusing the composer of formalism). Only many years later it saw spotlights, but none of the production lasted long.
The opera, so uncommon in terms of plotline and musical drama, seemed incredible even for an innovator like Prokofiev. The composer who had brought to the stage the characters of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky and Bryusov was carried away with Boris Polevoy’s novel about pilot Alexei Meresiev (he lost his legs as a result of a severe injury, but at the cost of unbelievable efforts and exercising he returned to the battle ranks). The main character is shown crawling from a shot down plane, in a hospital ward and mastering his artificial limbs at hospital. The character of Alexei, a winner in his own life drama, a man of enormous fortitude who did something seemingly impossible, was an incentive for the composer’s creative imagination.
The dramatic concept of the opera is built on a frame-like sequence of short scenes set off with moving lyrical episodes. The musical language of the opera predominantly consists of declamation and recitative and is full of songful intonations.
The only recording of The Story of a Real Man that now exists was made by the company of the USSR Bolshoi Theatre in 1961 and conducted by young maestro Mark Ermler. The character of Alexei Meresiev became one of the highest achievements of prominent singer Evgeny Kibkalo. The recording also features other celebrated soloists of the theatre such as Glafira Deomidova, Margarita Miglau, Kira Leonova, Alexei Maslennikov, Mark Reshetin and Artur Eisen.
Sergei Prokofiev
The Story of a Real Man
An opera in 3 acts after Boris Polevoy’s novel of the same name
Libretto by Sergei Prokofiev and Mira Mendelson-Prokofieva
Characters and performers:
Alexei - Evgeny Kibkalo
Olga - Glafira Deomidova
Grandpa Mikhailo - Georgy Shulpin
Vasilisa - Vera Smirnova
Varya - Margarita Miglau
Petrovna - Antonina Ivanova
Seryonka - Alexander Suzanov
Fedya - Vladimir Kurguzov
Andrei - Georgy Pankov
Senior Doctor - Vladimir Petrov
Zinochka -Maria Zvezdina
Colonel - Valery Yaroslavtsev
Vasily Vasilievich - Mark Reshetin
Commissar - Artur Eisen
Klavdiya - Kira Leonova
Alexei’s Mother - Valentina Petrova
1st Surgeon - Leonid Maslov
2nd Surgeon - Nikolai Zakharov
Gvozdev - Vitaly Vlasov
Kukushkin - Alexei Maslennikov
Choir and orchestra of the USSRState Academic Bolshoi Theatre
Conductor - Mark Ermler
Recorded in 1961.
CD 1
Introduction
Act I
Total time: 39.19
CD 2
Act II
Act III
Total time: 73.10 |
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ID: MELCD1002374
CDs: 2
Type: CD
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Collection: Choral Collection
Subcollection: Choir and Orchestra
CD 1
S. Taneyev
John of Damascus, cantata for chorus and orchestra, Op. 1 (based on the poem of the same name by A.K. Tolstoy)
1. I. I begin a journey into the unknown. Adagio ma non troppo - 15.36
2. II. But while I sleep with the eternal sleep. Andante sostenuto - 2.31
3. III. On the day when the trump. Fuga. Allegro - 7.13
Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 12
4. I. Allegro molto - 11.43
5. II. Adagio - 13.45
6. III. Scherzo. Vivace - 5.56
7. IV. Finale. Allegro energico - 9.46
Total time: 66.35
Academic Choir of the USSR All-Union Radio (1-3)
USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Evgeny Svetlanov
Recorded in 1991 (1-3), 1988 (4-7).
CD 2
Concert suite for violin and orchestra in G minor, Op. 28
1. I. Prelude. Grave - 8.29
2. II. Gavotte. Allegro moderato - 5.28
3. III. Fairy Tale. Andantino - 9.17
4. IV. Theme and Variations. Andantino - 14.52
5. V. Tarantella. Presto - 6.32
6. Temple of Apollo at Delphi, entr’acte before scene 2, act III of the musical trilogy Oresteia based on the tragedy by Aeschylus - 5.56
Total time: 50.37
Andrey Korsakov, violin (1-5)
USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Evgeny Svetlanov
Recorded: at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory in 1990 (1-5), broadcasted from the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory on December 28, 1984 (6).
John of Damascus, cantata for chorus and orchestra, Op. 1 (based on the poem of the same name by A.K. Tolstoy)
1. I. I begin a journey into the unknown. Adagio ma non troppo - 15.36
2. II. But while I sleep with the eternal sleep. Andante sostenuto - 2.31
3. III. On the day when the trump. Fuga. Allegro - 7.13
Symphony No. 4 in C minor, Op. 12
4. I. Allegro molto - 11.43
5. II. Adagio - 13.45
6. III. Scherzo. Vivace - 5.56
7. IV. Finale. Allegro energico - 9.46
Total time: 66.35
Academic Choir of the USSR
All-Union Radio (1-3)
USSR State Academic
Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Evgeny Svetlanov
Recorded in 1991 (1-3), 1988 (4-7).
CD 2
Concert suite for violin and orchestra in G minor, Op. 28
1. I. Prelude. Grave - 8.29
2. II. Gavotte. Allegro moderato - 5.28
3. III. Fairy Tale. Andantino - 9.17
4. IV. Theme and Variations. Andantino - 14.52
5. V. Tarantella. Presto - 6.32
6. Temple of Apollo at Delphi, entr’acte before scene 2, act III of the musical trilogy Oresteia based on the tragedy by Aeschylus - 5.56
Total time: 50.37
Andrey Korsakov, violin (1-5)
USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra
Conductor - Evgeny Svetlanov
Recorded: at the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory in 1990 (1-5), broadcasted from the Grand Hall of the Moscow Conservatory on December 28, 1984 (6).
Firma Melodiya presents a collection of Sergei Taneyev’s best works in the interpretation of Evgeny Svetlanov.
“A great Russian musician, whose all efforts inspire deep respect,” musicologist Boris Asafyev wrote about Taneyev. As a composer, pianist, music theorist and educator, disciple of Pyotr Tchaikovsky and Nikolai Rubinstein, teacher of Rachmaninoff and Scriabin, professor and director of Moscow Conservatory, Taneyev made an immense contribution to the Russian music at the turn of the 20th century. His work drew on the traditions of symphonic, chamber and opera music by Tchaikovsky, enriching them with intensive polyphonic development.
Cantata John of Damascus is Taneyev’s first composition endowed with artistic maturity (the author himself numbered it Opus 1). It is dedicated to the memory of his teacher Nikolai Rubinstein; the composition is based on the church chant Give rest with the saints, thoroughly elaborated, similarly to chorales in choral pieces by Johann Sebastian Bach. Symphony No. 4 in C minor is a masterpiece of Taneyev’s instrumental music, where the traditional structure of sonata-symphonic cycle is filled with intense dramatic movement “from the darkness to the light.”
The collection also features a refined concert suite for violin and orchestra and the symphonic entr’acte from the opera Oresteia (Temple of Apollo at Delphi) - an image of imperishable Light and Justice embodied in the image of the ancient god.
Taneyev’s compositions are recorded in the version of the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra conducted by of Evgeny Svetlanov - a major interpreter of the Russian classical music. The cantata was recorded with the participation of the Big Choir of the All-Union Radio and Central TV, the concert suite features Andrey Korsakov, People’s Artiste of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, one of the best students of Leonid Kogan. |
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