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ID: AV2100169
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Type: CD
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Subcollection: String instruments
F. Mendelssohn - Octet in E flat major, Overture Op. 21 |
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ID: CR109
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Piano
Mikhail Voskresensky is one of Russia's leading pianists. He is the winner of four international piano competitions (Schumann in Berlin, in Rio de Janeiro, George Enescu in Bucharest, and Van Cliburn in Fort Worth, Texas). In 1966 he was honoured with the Merited Artist of Russia award and in 1989, the People's Artist of Russia. Mikhail Voskresensky has extensive concert experience.
He is the only pianist in Russia to perform all of Chopin's piano compositions during one concert season (in 1982-83, in nine recitals in the Maly Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire).
Mikhail Voskresensky graduated from the Moscow Conservatoire where he studied under Ilia Klyachko, Boris Zemliansky, Yakob Milstein, Lev Oborin (piano) and Leonid Roizman (organ). As student of the famous Lev Oborin, the winner of the First Chopin's Competition in 1927, Voskresensky adopted his teacher's refined romanticism, and perfect taste in harmony with the piano's splendid sound. The images evoked by his playing suggest contrasting musical colours, never out of harmony, with a charming legato inducing the instrument to sing. "His playing fascinates audiences with its artistry, cordiality and ingeniousness. Mikhail Voskresensky is a very talented and intelligent musician", Oborin wrote about his pupil.
Voskresensky's repertoire includes Beethoven's 32 sonatas, all works of Chopin, and 56 piano concertos. He has performed with orchestras under the direction of more than 150 conductors, among them - Charles Dutoit, John Pritchard, Franz Kon-witschny, Kurt Masur, Eugeny Svetlanov, Kirill Kondrashin etc. His 40 CD's include recent recordings of all sonatas and etudes by Scriabin, "Pictures at an Exhibition" by Mussorgsky, Beethoven’s Hammer-klavier, works by Liszt, Schumann, Rachmaninov...
Mikhail Voskresensky began his pedagogical activities at the Moscow Conservatoire in 1959. For 8 years, he was an assistant to Professor Lev Oborin; since 1963 he has his own class. At present, Professor Voskresensky is the Head of piano chair at the Moscow Conservatoire. His pupils have won 111 prizes in international competitions, among them 49 gold medals.
He has participated as juror for international competitions in London, Leeds, Sydney, Tel Aviv and others as well as for the Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov Competitions in Moscow. He continues to be Chairman of the Jury for the Scriabin International Competition in Moscow.
Mikhail Voskresensky is the President of the Scriabin International Society, and Guest Professor in the Toho Gakuen School in Tokyo.
Professor Voskresensky gives numerous master classes in Russia and abroad. In the last 3 years, he gave master classes in Bejing, Lissabon, Paris, and Tokyo. The Julliard School invited Professor Voskresensky to teach for the period of three weeks in this famous stronghold of American pianism.
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ID: GMCD7272
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Choir
Recorded: St. Margaret of Scotland Church, St. Louis USA, 23-25 May, 2004
Soloists (in sequence)
Burgon: Amanda Meinen; Elise Ibendahl; Kathleen Mead
Surinach, no. 2: Nathan Ruggles; Mark Poe; Susan Greene
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All pieces scored for SATB choir (with divisi), unless otherwise stated. |
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ID: GMCD7125
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Piano
This album is a brand-new collection of some of the most brilliant and best-loved of all favourite pieces for violin and piano, known and loved to millions of music-lovers the world over.
It offers the intelligent collector a superb and unique album which also contains some popular pieces which are but rarely recorded - pieces which every violinist will have played at some time during their career, but which do not always find their way onto compact disc.
This programme is distinguished by the most brilliant and sensitive playing by one of the leading European violinists of the day, who is sympathetically accompanied by one of Switzerland’s most gifted composers, conductors and pianists.
The recording, made in England in 1996, is state-of-the-art, and the entire collection is bound to be one of the most popular albums Guild has released in the past few years. |
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ID: GMCD7120
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Piano
Recorded at: The Arts Centre of the London Oratory School, Fulham, London by kind permission of the Headmaster and Bursar, January 4th & 5th 1996
The Belfast-born composer Howard Ferguson has enjoyed an enviable reputation amongst those who really know their British music of the 20th century: his music is not great in output, but is distinguished at all times by a fastidious craftsmanship and an inspired abundance of melody. Dame Myra Hess recorded his Piano Sonata and Bagatelles, and Denis Brain his Octet - all on 78rpm discs - so this outstanding composer has not been without distinguished advocates. His Second Violin Sonata of 1948 is in three cogent movements.
The First Violin Sonata by Eugène Goossens is an outstanding work, the neglect of which - as with all of this supremely-gifted composer’s music - is quite inexplicable. The slow movement was recorded on a 78rpm disc by Andre Mangeot and the composer himself over 70 years ago - this new recording marks the first time this work has appeared complete in the British record catalogues!
The sensational success of the Second Violin Sonata by John Ireland in 1917 - it was performed nine times in the following season - may well have inspired Goossens to write his Sonata. It is surely true to say that no other English chamber work of the 20th century was ever received with greater enthusiasm than this. It remains one of Ireland’s greatest masterpieces, and should be known by all lovers of English music. |
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ID: GMCD7127
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Piano and Cello
Recorded at Rosslyn Hill Unitarian Chapel, Hampstead, London 1996
Here is a rare coupling - the two great Romantic Cello Sonatas from the late 19th-century era of high-romanticism, joined on one CD, together with other music for cello and piano by Grieg and Rachmaninov.
The performances, by this highly-acclaimed young duo, are of exceptional passion and refinement, and the quality of the recording is one of the best Guild has achieved in recent years - which is saying a lot.
These two Sonatas - both of which were played in concert by Pablo Casals with their respective composers - have, in recent years, become to be recognised as high-points in the cello repertoire and have enjoyed a growing and enthusiastic audience for their inspired qualities.
They make a superb coupling, and in addition, we include some rare shorter music for cello and piano by both composers. |
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ID: GMCD7241
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Piano
Recorded: Potten Hall, Suffolk, England on 8 December 2001 |
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ID: GMCD7250
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Flute
Recorded: Blum Haller, October 2001; Vogel Schaeuble January 2002; Radio Studio Zürich |
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ID: AV2100166
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Piano
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