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ID: MELCD1002443
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Piano and Flute
The programme of Russian Dreams is made up of works for flute and piano by Russian composers of the 20th century - Sergei Prokofiev, Vladimir Tsybin, Edison Denisov, Otar Taktakishvili and Anatoly Samonov. The chamber works are performed by Irina Stachinskaya and Phillip Moll.
Irina’s musical career started at the age of ten when she received the first prize of the international competition in Athens in 2000. In 2010, she was a winner the prestigious Rising Star Award by Sir James Galway. In 2011, Irina won the third prize of the prestigious Maxence Laurrieu Flute International Competition in Nice, France.
As a soloist, Irina has frequently performed at Moscow’s best concert chamber venues with well-known Moscow ensembles such as Concertino, Eccellente and the ensemble of soloists of the Academic Symphony Orchestra of the Moscow Philharmonic Society.
In August 2014, Irina successfully debuted at the Annual National Flute Association Convention where she performed with the legendary pianist Phillip Moll.
For many years Phillip Moll has performed throughout Europe, North America and the Far East, and has appeared as soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, the Boston Pops, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Orchestra of Saint John’s Smith Square and the Philharmonic Kammermusik Kollegium of Berlin. In Australia, he has been soloist
with the symphony orchestras of Melbourne, Sydney and Tasmania. He has also recorded with flutist Sir James Galway and been his ensemble partner for more than forty years now.
Recorded in 2015, Wuppertal, Germany. |
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ID: MELCD1002428
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Percussion
(7,9) - Ensemble of Young Soloists of the Ossipov National Academic Orchestra of Folk Instruments of Russia
Sergey Shamov, percussions, Pavel Novikov, bansuri
(1), Roman Zorkin, guitar (1)
Alexander Muravyev, double bass (1, 2), Borislav
Strulev, cello (5), Aydar Gaynullin, bayan, and
Euphoria (3, 6, 8):
Svetlana Bezotosnaya, violin, Polina Kondratkova,
piano, Roman Zorkin, guitar
Alexander Muravyev, double bass, Ensemble of Young
Soloists of the Ossipov
National Academic Orchestra of Folk Instruments of
Russia (7, 9):
Irina Kolosova, domra, Ekaterina Mochalova, domra,
Yulia Neverova, alto domra
Nadezhda Shishlyannikova, bass domra, Pavel
Ogorodnikov, double bass balalaika
Andrei Tselkovsky, oboe, Roman Sandler, flute,
Mikhail Ostrovsky, electronic, sample, mixing (9)
Recorded at BIT-OF-SOUND Production in 2014
(1-4, 6-8), 2015 (9), Echoes Studio in 2014 (5).
Sound engineers: Mikhail Ostrovsky (1-4, 6-9),
Semyon Nedovenchanny (5)
Melodiya Records presents an album by Sergey Shamov, a talented musician, virtuoso percussionist and the first Russian performer who presented the exotic cajón at the major academic music venues of this country.
As an orchestra soloist and ensemble member, Sergey has toured in the cities of Russia, the countries of the CIS, Europe and the rest of the world, including the United States. The performer has collaborated in musical and theatre projects with the leading actors of the Theatre of Nations in Moscow and many talented musicians, and been involved in studio and concert activities as a session drummer and percussionist.
Shamov has been a member of the Osipov National Academic Orchestra of Folk Instruments of Russia since 2007 and collaborated with Euphoria, an ensemble formed by outstanding bayan player, vocalist and composer Aydar Gaynullin. Euphoria formed in 2010 has already conquered millions of listeners performing at prestigious venues and on central TV channels in Russia. Among Euphoria’s other members are Pavel Novikov, a unique multi-instrumentalist who plays Asian folk woodwind instruments, Borislav Strulev, one of the first musicians to plat jazz and fusion on the cello, and Alexander Muravyev, a composer, double bass player and prize winner of numerous competitions.
With this album, the musicians strived to showcase various emotions and moods that are known to all of us. They combine nearly unthinkable things here - meditative relaxation and passionate tango, music for thought and impetuous dance music. After listening to the album, one can’t resist the feeling that the pieces were recorded for the musicians’ pleasure as they present the listeners with peculiar and really new music. The nine compositions featured on Sergey Shamov’s album, the performers sequentially lead the listener from emotion to emotion, changing the state of soul and skilfully uniting the contrasting pieces with a dense, saturated sound of percussions into one harmonious whole. The album you are holding in your hands is an experiment in its way that allows of deviating from the already assimilated and “replicated” techniques of using the percussion instruments and trying them in a new role. |
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ID: MELCD1002459
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano
This album features names that are virtually unknown to today’s wide audience - Gavriil Popov, Vladimir Rebikov and Samuil Feinberg. For the first time on record, Melodiya presents Grand Suite by Gavriil Popov, one of the most talented representatives of “avant-garde Soviet music” of the 1920’s to the early 1930’s. Vladimir Rebikov was one of the first representatives of Russian music modernism. His piano cycle On the Other Side was inspired by the works of Spanish painter Francisco Goya. Samuil Feinberg is known first of all as a prominent pianist, educator and successor to the traditions of the Russian piano school. Nevertheless, he regarded himself as, first and foremost, a composer and heir to Alexander Scriabin’s creative aspirations. The album also includes works by Prokofiev and Shostakovich. A prize-winner of the Queen Elisabeth Competition in Brussels, one of the world’s most prestigious tournaments, Yury Favorin graduated from the Moscow Conservatory under professor Mikhail Voskresensky. The young musician gives special attention to contemporary and rarely performed music. The programmes of his performances are noted for their careful structure. |
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ID: MELCD1002464
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano
Fans of the musician who is known as a genre-breaking composer, performer and ardent propagandist of the most radical styles of contemporary music, may find this album surprising.
Beethoven, Chopin, Scriabin, Prokofiev and, of course, Tchaikovsky are performed by the 20-year old student of the Moscow Conservatory who was not admitted to the final round of the prestigious contest but was awarded an important prize: “for best performance of Tchaikovsky’s music.”
Even then the young musician, one of the most promising pianists from Tatiana Nikolayeva’s class, was confident of his propensities. A lover of 20th century music, including that written by his contemporaries, he interprets Beethoven, Scriabin and Prokofiev with youthful enthusiasm void of academic clichés. As Anton Batagov admitted, Tchaikovsky’s music was something that he had to struggle with. Only when he was preparing for the competition, he came to realize the depth of the Russian music genius - “as an extremely lonely and extremely closed man who had an infinitely subtle perception of the world... as a man to whom life was, first of all, an impossibility of happiness.” And at the same time, a man of “absolute harmony and fabulous beauty.” These recordings made 30 years ago during the first two rounds of the VIII Tchaikovsky International Competition are released for the first time. |
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ID: MELCD1002384
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Violin Concerto
Subcollection: Violin and Orchestra
(1-3) - Recorded in 1984, Igor Oistrakh (violin) - Moscow State Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra -Valentin Zhuk
(4-6) - Recorded in 1985, Igor Oistrakh, Natalia Zertsalova, Ensemble of the Soloists of Moscow State Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra - Valentin Zhuk
Firma Melodiya presents recordings of Joseph Haydn’s and Edward Elgar’s violin concertos performed by Igor Oistrakh.
Igor Oistrakh is the son of David Oistrakh, one of the greatest violinists of the 20th century. He studied violin under famous teacher Pyotr Stoliarsky, graduated from the conservatory and finished his
post-graduate course under his father. Since he was young his play was distinguished with high technical mastery and bright individuality without copying his father’s style. Suffice it to mention his triumphs at the international competitions in Budapest in 1949 and Poznan in 1952, his appearances with some of the best musicians of the century such as Pablo Casals, Yehudi Menuhin, Leonid Kogan and Vladimir Spivakov, and his work with the leading conductors such as Herbert von Karajan, Otto Klemperer, Eugene Ormandy, Carlo Maria Giulini, Georg Solti, Lorin Maazel, Zubin Mehta, Evgeny Svetlanov and Gennady Rozhdestvensky.
Igor Oistrakh was the first Soviet violinist to play the Violin Concerto by Edward Elgar, a prominent English composer who raised national music to the global level for the first time in two hundred years. Dedicated to violinist Fritz Kreisler, the concerto unveils the violin’s rich virtuosic, timbre and emotional potential and is a fertile ground for a true master of violin performing art. Igor Oistrakh is accompanied by the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra led by talented violinist and conductor Valentin Zhuk.
The album also features Joseph Haydn’s Double Concerto for violin and piano. Igor Oistrakh performs it together with Natalia Zertsalova, his long-standing ensemble partner and a pupil of Yakov Flier. |
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ID: MELCD1001385
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Piano and Violin
The music of these two composers spans a period in Russian history that saw a remarkable output of creative and artistic achievement. Michael Ginka died in 1857, Alexei Stanchinsky was born in 1888 and died in 1914 yet both composers share that distinctive Russian romanticism as composers.
(1 - 22) - Alexander Malkus (piano)
(22) - Valentin Feigin, cello Grigory Feigin, violin |
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ID: MELCD1002355
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Bassoon Collection
Subcollection: Piano and Bassoon
Melodiya presents an album of works for bassoon by West European composers performed by Sergei Krasavin.
An Honoured Artist of Russia, professor of the Gnessins Russian Academy of Music and prize-winner of the international competitions in Prague, Budapest and Munich, Sergei Krasavin is a reputable representative of the Russian performing school. After graduation from the Leningrad Conservatory where he studied bassoon under professor Dmitri Yeryomin, he was a soloist of the orchestra of the Leningrad Kirov State Academic Theatre of Opera and Ballet (now the Mariinsky Theatre), then a soloist of the USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra, the country’s best one. In 1992 to 2006, he played in the French National Orchestra. The bassoonist has also regularly performed as a solo and ensemble musician. A virtuosic technique, expressed emotionality, the sound of rare beauty and an innate sense of form and style are virtues that can be used to describe the musician’s artistic gift.
Sergei Krasavin performs concertos for bassoon and orchestra by Antonio Vivaldi (he was the first composer to “discover” the bassoon as a virtuosic concerto instrument), a rare piece of Mozart - the Sonata for bassoon and cello, and the Sonata for bassoon and piano by Camille Saint-Saëns, the great French master’s last work.
Pianist Alexei Nasedkin and cellist Yuri Loyevsky, two of the leading representatives of Soviet performing art, took part in the recording along with Sergei Krasavin. The Ensemble of Soloists of the USSR State Symphony Orchestra is conducted by maestro Yuri Temirkanov. |
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ID: MELCD1002242
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Trio
Firma Melodiya presents a record of chamber music by Carl Maria von Weber, Robert Schumann, Johannes Brahms and Alban Berg performed by leading Russian musicians of the 1980s. Anatoly Kamyshev received the second award at the 1979 Soviet national contest of winders; he was a soloist of leading Moscow orchestras, performed with solo and ensemble programs, including a number of concerts with Sviatoslav Richter at the December Nights festival. After Andrei Gavrilov's convincing victory at the International Tchaikovsky Competition (1974, first award) he became world famous. Celloist Ivan Monighetti was one of the best disciples of Mstislav Rostropovich (at the same 1974 International Tchaikovsky Competition he received the second award). A renowned master of contemporary music performance, he is also known for his interpretations of Baroque and Classicism works; romantic music was also abundant in his programs. |
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ID: MELCD1002152
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano and Clarinet
Firma Melodiya presents the art of two young soloists - virtuoso clarinetist Ivan Stolbov and pianist Kim Ja Ran (South Korea - Russia). Both musicians are graduates of the St. Petersburg Conservatory, prize-winners of international competitions and active stage performers in Russia and overseas. Ivan Stolbov began to learn music since the age of nine. Now, he is a soloist of the Mariinsky Theatre orchestra and teaches at the St. Petersburg Music College. Among his major achievements are first prizes of the Rimsky-Korsakov International Competition in St. Petersburg, Jeunesses Musicales in Bucharest and the Wind and Percussion Competition in Tokyo. The musician gives open lessons and master classes around the world. Kim Ja Ran , who started to play music when she was four years old, has been a two-time prize-winner of the International Music Competition in Albena, Bulgaria, in the categories of best solo piano performance in 2005 and performance by a piano duo in 2007. Today, she is an artist of Petersburg-Concert. The album features compositions for clarinet and piano by composers of the 19th and 20th centuries. Many of the pieces are not that well known to today's Russian listeners. Sergey Taneyev's Canzona, Claude Debussy's Rapsodie, sonatas by Alexander Grechaninov, Francis Poulenc and Paul Hindemith demonstrate extensive performing and expressive skills of the young musicians. The recording was made at a concert of the Mariinsky Theatre in 2012. |
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ID: MELCD1001606
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano
Live recording of Glenn Gould’s meeting with the students of the Moscow conservatory in 1957. At that time he was not well-known to the general public and his performances demonstrated a degree of freedom in relation to the musical text that had never been heard before in Russia. The CD includes Gould speaking to the students and a Russian interpreter. |
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