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ID: GD345
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Orchestra
In 1999 Gega New released an album with works by young Bulgarian composers (GD 253). It included Two Bagatelles for Piano, Clarinet and Percussions by Yassen Vodenitcharov. Even then he demonstrated his affinity for originally chosen instruments.
The pieces in the present CD of the composer are written for various instruments and voice combinations: soprano-saxophone, violin, clarinet and piano, flute orchestra, or mezzo-soprano with string, harp, piano (celesta) and percussion. The solo works are for harpsichord and soprano-saxophone. The selection of instruments renders a specific sound colour to the works and emphasizes the author's conception. The pieces are performed by renowned musicians from France, the USA, Canada and Bulgaria.
Yassen Vodenitcharov was born in Burgas, Bulgaria, in 1964. He is a graduate of the Prof. Pancho Vladigerov National Academy of Music in Sofia and Paris National Conservatory (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris). His teachers were Prof. Dimitar Tapkoff and Paul Méfano. Doctor of music, he is also a graduate of the IRCAM Institute in Paris, where he studied Music and Musicology of the 20th Century. He lives in Paris, but his works have been performed all over Europe, as well as in the USA, Canada, Japan and South America. He is the recipient of numerous awards, the Grand Prix at the 10th Tokyo Contemporary Music Composition Competition. He is also laureate of the Beaumarchais Competition for his chamber opera “The Talking Tree”, which was performed in the Studio Theatre of Comédie-Française in 2000 in Paris. In 2005 he received First Price of the jury and the audience at the Bruno Maderna Competition in Wuerzburg (Geramany).
Performed by: Orchestre de Flûtes Français, Susan Fancher - soprano-saxophone, Johanne Morin - violin, David Veilleux - clarinet, André Ristic - piano, Céline Joly - harpsichord, Sylvain Malézyeux, soprano-saxophone, Rozalina Kassabova-Kushinchanova - mezzo-soprano, Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductors: Yves Prin, Grigor Palikarov |
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ID: GD344
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Viola
Georgi Minchev (b. 1939) is among the most renowned Bulgarian composers. His teacher was Marin Goleminov and he majored under Rodion Schedrin, Aram Hachaturian and Olivier Messiaen. His works have won awards in Europe and the USA and have been performed in Bulgaria, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Cuba, Columbia, Australia, Greece, Belgium, Austria, San Marino, USA, Holland, Spain, Japan, Great Britain and Finland. A great part of his compositions have been released by leading recording companies. Gega New also has released some of his works (GD 204). This new release presents the composer again and features his brilliants orchestral approach.
The music for orchestra in “Contrasts” was written upon invitation of Maestro Thomas Kalb for the Heidelberg Philharmonic Society. Its premiere was in 2002 in Heidelberg (Germany). The composer remarks about his work: “... I set myself the goal to create a piece which is masterly and bravura but at the same time emotional and poetic with different and permanently changing dynamics, tempo and character - aggressive in some places and calm in others, with powerful culminations followed by standstill noiselessness...”
“Monody and Concerto grosso” was also written by request of a famous musician - the violist Dimitar Penkov who has worked in Hannover for many years. The premiere was in Sofia in 2007. “Concert Music for Orchestra” was composed long before the other two works. It was written in 1976 by order of the Symphonic Orchestra of the Czech Radio in Prague. Its world premiere was also in Prague, in the same year.
The three compositions have been performed many times in Europe and have always aroused the interest of the audience and the reviewers.
Performed by: Dimitar Penkov - viola, Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra
Conductors: Vassil Stefanov, Plamen Djouroff, Rossen Milanov |
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ID: GD334
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Viola
Composers usually regard the viola as a part of the orchestra and thus a few works for viola have been written. Recordings of talented viola players are very rare. In the limited number of works for viola, the listener can appreciate the beautiful sound and varied potentialities of the instrument.
Elissaveta Staneva is one of the renowned viola players world-wide. She was born in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, studied at the Secondary Music School in Plovdiv and continued her education at the State Academy of Music in Sofia and at the University of Music in Vienna. She attended many master classes with: Tabea Zimmermann, Thomas Riebl, Michael Kugel and Diemut Popen. From 1992 to 1996 she was a member of Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra under the direction of Claudio Abbado, and played later on in the Mahler Chamber Orchestra. She has been principle viola of the Graz Philharmonic Orchestra (Austria) since 2001. In addition to her orchestral engagement, she also participated as soloist and member of various chamber music groups throughout Europe and USA. She is holder of prestigious awards: Prize of the Nippon Foundation Japan, OESTIG Prize for the excellent Interpretation of Contemporary Austrian Music, etc. She is prize winner at national and international competitions.
The conductor Nayden Todorov was born in Bulgaria. He studied with Karl Osterreicher and Uros Lajovic in Vienna and has gone on to conduct major orchestras across the European and the American continents, and in Israel. He currently serves as a general manager and music director of the Rousse State Opera & Philharmonic. In addition he is the Music Director of the much-lauded Thracia Summer International Music Festival and since 2001 he has been paying regular guest visits to the National Opera and Ballet in Sofia. Nayden Todorov has also been a Principal Guest Conductor of the Sofia Philharmonic Orchestra since the 2003-2004 season.
The Thracian Chamber Orchestra was founded in 1998. The orchestra includes talented musicians from Plovdiv and the surrounding region. Many renowned Bulgarian and foreign solo players and conductors have performed in the orchestra since its foundation, and they have received high appraisal from the audience and critics.
With the participation of: Iliana Todorova - Baycheva, basso continuo (7-10)
Thracian Chamber Orchestra Plovdiv
Nayden Todorov, conductor
Recorded in 2005 in the studio of Radio Plovdiv |
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ID: GD318
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Piano
The interesting selection of three emblematic works for piano and orchestra on this CD is performed to perfection by the brilliant pianist Pavlina Dokovska, the distinguished conductor Vladimir Ghiaurov and the musicians of the Bulgarian National Radio Symphony Orchestra.
Pavlina Dokovska is well-known among music lovers. She received her musical education in Bulgaria where she studied with Lydia Kuteva and graduated from the Music Academy of Sofia as a student of Julia and Konstantin Ganev. After further studies with Ivonne Lefebure in Paris, she completed her Master of Music Degree at the Juilliard School in New York as a student of Beveridge Webster. She is a First Prize winner of the Claude Debussy International Competition in France and Italy’s International Piano Competition of Senigallia. Her concert tours have taken her to Europe, the Far East and throughout the United States. She has worked with renowned orchestras and conductors, given recitals in famous concert halls, participated in festivals, recorded for major recording and music publishing companies… She combines her extensive concert-giving activity with a teaching career in Mannes College of Music in New York. Known for her insightful and caring teaching methods which have produced many a competition winner, Ms. Dokovska was elected Chair of the Piano Department at the Mannes College of Music. In 1999 she founded and became artistic director of the annual Mannes Festival, which grew into a staple of New York’s musical life. She is also artistic director of the Southwest Virginia Festival for the Arts.
Vladimir Ghiaurov, son of the celebrated bass Nicolai Ghiaurov, has also had a very interesting career and his talent is greatly recognised in Europe and world-wide. He began his musical training as a pianist at the Conservatory Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, Italy and continued his education in Austria at the Vienna Musik-Academie, where he studied conducting and composition. Mr. Ghiaurov made his conducting debut in Italy in 1980. Since then he has been invited by Opera Houses and Orchestras in France, Italy, Germany, Austria, Denmark, Bulgaria, Spain, Norway, Switzerland, Japan and Taiwan. He was guest conductor at the Vienna State Opera, Moscow's Bolshoi Theatre, Berlin's Konzerthaus, Tokyo's Suntory Hall, Sofia Opera, the opera theatre in Dublin, Ireland. For almost ten years he served as a principal conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Plovdiv, Bulgaria. He has collaborated with many prominent artists such as: Jorg Demus, Aldo Ciccolini, Viktor Tretiakov, Juri Boukoff, Mirella Freni, Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Ghena Dimitrova, Giorgio Zancanaro, Nicolai Ghiaurov, Ruggiero Raimondi, Carlo Colombara. |
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ID: ARNR0301
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: Quartet
Classical, Bach, String Quartet
Digipack with Booklet 16 pagine
With this new edition of "The Art of the Fugue", the last instrumental masterwork of Bach, the Quartetto Bernini is proposing for the first time the filological execution of Bernini's manuscript.
Precious and unique, this recording offers to the listener a new clarity, compared with the existing numerous versions, based on the first edition of print.
"The Art of the Fugue" is infact a complex work, where the inventive counterpoint of Bach is taken to the limit and in this edition Quartetto Bernini offers a particular lecture, next to the instrumental praxis of that epoche, also through the use of a splendid quartet of italian instuments, dated 16th/17th century. |
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ID: BR0034
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Piano
Felicja Blumental, piano; Vienna Symphony Orchestra; Robert Wagner, conductor. 2011 will see the release of three new discs on the Brana Records label of the complete Beethoven Piano Concertos, performed by Felicja Blumental with Robert Wagner conducting the Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Felicja Blumental was born in Warsaw where she studied at the National Conservatory, and she later appeared with orchestras throughout Europe including the Philharmonia, RPO, LPO, LSO, and Scottish National Orchestra. She was greatly admired by leading 20th Century composers who wrote pieces especially for her. Villa-Lobos dedicated his fifth piano concerto to her which she performed with the leading orchestras around Europe and recorded for EMI with the Orchestre National in Paris. This is the first release in a series of three discs featuring all six of Beethoven‟s piano concerti. |
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ID: UP0019
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Chamber Music
Subcollection: String instruments
Recorded at Domovina Studio Prague, October 1999
Czech Philharmonic Sextet:
(Bohumil Kotmel, Ota Bartoš - violins, Jaroslav Pondělíček, Jan Šimon - violas, František Host, Josef Špaček - cellos) |
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ID: 5060192780079
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: String instruments
This is the debut recording of an ensemble which is already in great demand around Europe. “Throughout, the fluidity of their phrasing and the way that they balanced the work’s classical elegance and its emotional complexity were compelling.” The Strad |
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ID: NEMACD010
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Subcollection: Piano
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ID: FHR11
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Baroque
Subcollection: Cello
Rohan de Saram was a member of the legendary Arditti Quartet for over twenty years and has performed as a soloist with major orchestras around the world. Preethi de Silva is the director of the celebrated US early music ensemble Con Gioia. A multi-award winner for her performances and literature, de Silva has performed with many internationally famous period instrument musicians including Chiara Banchini, Monica Huggett and Wieland Kuijken. Harmonic Labyrinth, a special collection from First Hand, celebrates these two great Sri Lankan musicians and features repertoire from their recent, highly acclaimed concert tour with Con Gioia. |
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