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Russian and World music CD DVD shop and Classic distribution
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ID: QTZ2045
CDs: 2
Type:
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Subcollection: Violin
This unique CD and DVD set features recordings by one of the UK's outstanding young violinists, Ruth Palmer, of two major works for the violin by Dmitri Shostakovich. It also includes a documentary film by Tim Meara, A People's Music, in which Ruth travels to Russia to find out more about the origins of the music and to discover what led Shostakovich to write these two works.
Also included is a documentary film on DVD by Tim Meara, A People's Music, in which Ruth travels to Russia to find out more about the origins of the music and to discover what led Shostakovich to write these two works.
CD:
Shostakovich - Violin Concerto No 1 in A minor Op 77 (Op 99)
Shostakovich - Sonata for Violin & Piano Op 134
Ruth Palmer - Violin
Philharmonia Orchestra
Benjamin Wallfisch - Conductor
Alexei Grynyuk - piano
DVD:
A People's Music
A film by Tim Meara
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ID: SMCCD0241
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano
Live at Small Halls of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, june 10, 1951 |
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ID: MKM277
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano
Recorded 19 and 20 September 1971 in Victor Studio, Tokyo, Japan |
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ID: RCD16200
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano
(1-16) Rachmaninov, Sergey Vasil'yevich (piano)
(14-16) Fritz Kreisler, violin
Recorded: 1919 (6, 9); 1920 (7); 1925 (9-12); 1928 (14-16); 1936 (8); 1942 (1-5) |
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ID: MELCD1002108
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano
Recorded in 1959 and 1960.
Frédéric Chopin’s etudes are a unique combination of virtuoso technique and artistic supertasks. It is not without reason that no compulsory programme of any international competition can do without them. Each of the etudes is an ‘exercise’ in one of the types of piano technique, while sounding like a bright and image-bearing piece.
The twelve etudes of Op.10 were composed during 1828-1832 and dedicated to Franz Liszt. The twelve etudes of Op.25 were published in 1836. Nearly all pianists of the world have Chopin’s etudes in their repertoire, but only a few of them have the courage to play both of the opuses in their entirety.
Firma Melodiya presents twenty-four etudes by Chopin performed by Vladimir Ashkenazy, one of the greatest pianists of modern times. What makes these recordings especially interesting is that they were made in 1959 by the then 22-year-old pianist. With his world triumphs still ahead (although Ashkenazy had received a second prize at the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw and won the prestigious Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels), Ashkenazy’s pianism already appears in full possession of virtuosic and artistic mastery.
“The young pianist is not just an owner of phenomenally deft, strong and superbly trained fingers, he also proficiently wields a diverse and beautiful palette of piano sounds”, wrote one of the reviewers in those days.
Chopin:
Etudes (12), Op. 10
Etudes (12), Op. 25
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano) |
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ID: STR33815
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Guitar
Stefano Grondona and Laura Mondiello revisit the repertoire of the historic guitar duo of Miguel Llobet and Maria Luisa Anido, presenting the most complete recording to date of Llobet's two-guitar arrangements. This compilation includes transcriptions rediscovered only very recently and is performed on instruments built by the celebrated nineteenth-century guitars maker Antonio de Torres.
The seventh release by Stefano Grondona on Stradivarius is also the last volume of the complete works of Miguel Llobet. Grondona has won several awards including a Gramophone Editor’s Choice for his last release, Respuesta.
Track listing:
Albeniz
1. Castilla (Seguidillas) 03:49
2. Evocacion (Suite "Iberia") 06:02
3. Bajo la palmera 05:02
4. Rumores de la Caleta (Malaguena) 03:55
Granados
5. Danza Espanola No.6 (Rondalla Aragonesa) 05:37
6. Danza Espanola No.11 (Zambra) 06:20
Aguirre:
7. Huella 02:28
Lopez-Chavarri:
8. Leyenda del Castillo Moro 04:23
Villa-Lobos
9. Theresinha de Jesus- Ciranda No. 1 02:50
Torre:
10. Berceuse 05:25
De Rogatis
11. Chacarera 02:19
Daquin
12. Le Coucou (Rondeau) 02:26
Mozart
13. Minuetto (Sinfonia No.39) 05:03
Beethoven
14. Minuetto 01:09
Brahms
15. Danza Hungara No.5 03:01
Mendelssohn
16. Romanza sin Palabras No.20 03:02
17. Romanza sin Palabras No.25 02:43
Tchaikovsky
18. Humoresque Op. 10 No. 2 03:30 |
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ID: STR33882
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Violin
The title pays homage to the commissioner of the work, the famous patron and collector Betty Freeman (1921-2010). Developed with the collaboration of violinist Paul Zukofsky and taken up again in 1990 in a second and concluding edition (composed of corresponding numbers), the Freeman Etudes are based on a 16- part division. |
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ID: STR33323
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Piano
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ID: CHRCD019
CDs: 1
Type: CD
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Collection: Instrumental
Subcollection: Accordion
The winner of numerous international competitions, the brilliant young accordion player Ksenija Sidorova here presents her debut recording; a recital for solo classical accordion.
A particularly accomplished artist, Ksenija has collaborated with many leading musicians (including the Belcea Quartet, and Valergy Gergiev with the CBSO), and won numerous awards and accolades.
“one of the real finds of this series” The Times
Still an underexploited resource in western classical music, the accordion has had a fast-increasing amount of music written for it since the mid-20th Century. Here, Ksenija Sidrova brings a varied recital featuring some of the best contemporary compositions for the classical accordion, alongside transcriptions of well-known works.
No composer has been transcribed more often than Bach; but the accordion - heard here in Bach’s Overture in the French Style - brings an advantage that few other instruments can offer; it’s notes do not die away as soon as they are sounded. This allows an array of colouristic possibilities, denied to other musicians.
Amongst the contemporary works here, Arne Nordheim’s Flashing, written in 1985 for solo accordion, has become a classic of the accordion repertoire. Nordheim’s music has a real sense of physicality, of movement and change on a large scale. In contrast, Luciani Berio’s Sequenza XIII opens with a compressed melody which is gradually developed amid splashes of complex harmony and virtuoso filigree.
Yuji Takahashu’s Like a Water-Buffalo is preceded on this disc by the poem that inspired it. Well-known in Takahashi’s native Japan, it is a moving, heartfelt piece, strongly transmitting the sounds of freedom.
This recital CD also features a ʻbonus track’ - Astor Piazzolla’s “Asleep”, the first of the composer’s Five Tango Sensations, performed by Ksenija Sidorova with the exuberant young Sacconi Quartet.
“an amazingly accomplished artist” Classical Source
Composers featured in this stunning recital include: Nordheim, Berio, Schnittke, Takahashi, Piazzolla, Scarlatti, Bach and Mozart. |
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